FabGuys.com forum: Accents and Dialectology in UK.

By (user no longer on site) OP
2 weeks ago

How many accents and dialects are there in UK?

Which accent is more posh in your opinion - Received Pronunciation, Scouse, Mancunian, Cockney, Geordie, Midlands accent, West Country accent, Cornish accent, Glaswegian, Edinburgh, Irish, Welsh accents etc

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By *0yguyMan
2 weeks ago

Cumberland

One source indicates there are over 160 different English accents. Take your pick for your favourite.

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By *eefandfurMan
2 weeks ago

Edinburgh

Every region and county has their own accents and phrasing. A keen ear can often spot differences in people from adjacent villages. Even cities will have different accents depending on the district.

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By *arridMan
2 weeks ago

bRiGhToN

"Every region and county has their own accents and phrasing. A keen ear can often spot differences in people from adjacent villages. Even cities will have different accents depending on the district. "

When I was a kid I could tell which village the other kids were from by their accent but it all sort of blended away. That was in Rutland. People down here think I have a posh accent because I don’t drop my aitches.

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By *arridMan
2 weeks ago

bRiGhToN

I also remember first hearing a Liverpudlian accent for real and was mesmorised.

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By *ondomhunterMan
2 weeks ago

hastings

I live in Sussex so dont have an accent, everyone else does!

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By *arridMan
2 weeks ago

bRiGhToN

"I live in Sussex so dont have an accent, everyone else does!"
the sussex accent isn’t easy to define and there aren’t that many sussex specific words either, although ‘somewhen’ is one, meaning ‘sometime’.

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By *amie1402Man
2 weeks ago

Merseyside

I have read that there are many times more accents in the UK than there are in the USA - a country many times larger and with five times the population.

Think I got that from Bill Bryson in his book Mother Tongue. He’s normally pretty good on such general statements.

I guess that’s only English-spoken accents.

Not sure how the Hispanic ones fit into that.

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By *has2Man
2 weeks ago

Chaddesden, Derby

A long time ago I worked in Reading in Berkshire and one of my colleagues was from Newbury, just 20 miles away. His accent was very different from anyone from Reading. There must be thousands of accent variations.

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By *ildwestheroMan
2 weeks ago

Llandrindod Wells

Varies so much from region to region and county to county. Sometimes you can even work out which small town someone comes from as he sound different from someone in a town less than a dozen miles away.

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By *addy DaddycoolMan
2 weeks ago

Darlington

During the covid con I worked for a company 32 miles North of my home town, it took me months to fully understand what my colleagues were saying. I'm sure they thought I was either deaf or daft

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By *3versMan
2 weeks ago

glasgow

There's also a whole class/wealth dynamic to accents as well. Even in a town or city there will be differences

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By *ullmytriggerMan
2 weeks ago

Armagh

Northern Irish... Harsher to the ear than southern Irish x

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