Do different parts of England have a different form of the British accent?
October 25th, 2009
I’ve never been to England and probably wouldn’t be able to tell anyways.But for example do people in Northern England speak english differently as compared to southern England?Because here in America we have the northern type accent(like the true new yorkers)the southern accents(like cowboy type) and stuff.Its the same language just in a different form.So is it like that in England?
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October 27th, 2009 at 2:25 am
Yes, there are differences, but many of them are not based on geography but on social class and education.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
there’s different accents all over england – cockney from London (working class accent), “posh” (upper class), west country accent (I guess you could call it the english equivalent of hillbilly), liverpudlian, mancunian, geordie, brummie. lol there’s a lot. And young people tend to talk “jafaican”, or pseudo-ghetto.
October 31st, 2009 at 3:35 am
Definitely! If you’ve seen the movie My Fair Lady, the professor is an expert at languages and accents. He claims he can hear exactly where a person comes from down to the street. In Britain, many people spoke or still speak types of Gaelic or Welsh, so that adds to the accents. All the many accents in the US are descended from the accents of the original settlers. Because we move around a lot in today’s world and are exposed to other accents through TV, it’s getting more blurred. However, I live in New England, and I can tell which NE state most people are from, or part of the state if it’s Massachusetts.
November 1st, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Yes, there is a different accent every few miles.
I talk with a broad Oldham accent, but just 7 miles down the road you have the manc accent, a few miles the other way, there are the various Yorkshire accents. Even within the same town there are different accents, dependent on which area of the town you grew up in.
There are literally hundreds if not thousands of accents in England, and even more when you consider the various Welsh and Scottish accents as a part of Britain
November 5th, 2009 at 12:34 am
There are dozens! Sometimes within a few miles of each other. In addition, there are dialect differences in places like Yorkshire for example, where Tha’ (thou) is still a common pronoun. You will also hear many different accents of English spoken by people from Wales, Scotland, Ireland etc.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:15 am
see Sebastian and Mo Fayed, but remember there is no one “British” accent, note the difference between Billy Connolly and Ozzie Osborne, neither of which has the “Hollywood British” accent.
November 5th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Yes we all have different accents. Also there isn’t any such thing as a British accents as English, Scottish, welsh, and northern Irish all sound completely different!
We have many different accents in England. You can always tell a northern and southern accent apart. In the north in some words we pronounce the a different to southerners for example the word dance, we pronounce the a like the a in apple and southerners pronounce it like an ar, so they say it like darnce. But that is not with all words just some!
I’m from the north so I have a northern accent.
There are also different kind of northern accents and different kinds of southern accents.
We also have some different slang words.
November 7th, 2009 at 6:12 am
Yes Britain is known for its huge amount of accents.
I have a Cornish accent which is usually lumped together with the Westcountry accents but is quite different to a Somerset accent if you know what you’re listening out for. And no we don’t say oo-arr, that’s Somerset.
The south usually says “grarss” and the north says “grass” but here in Cornwall we also say “grass”.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Remember that Britain includes Scotland and Wales as well as England. I think you meant to say English accent instead of British accent. So yes, in different parts of England there is different type of English accents just like in America.
Hope this helps.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Yeah, it’s different. Each city has a different accent. Even in London there is different accents in the east compared to the west. And there is another language in Cornwall called Cornish.
Here’s a few cities with their accents:
East London – Cockney. (There is also something called Cockney rhyming slang, and is like another language to some people. They say “jam jar” to mean car, “pork pies” to mean lies etc. It was also used in Austin Powers; search ENGLISH, English in YouTube).
Liverpool – Scouse
Newcastle – Geordie
Birmingham – Brummie
This guy does a lot of the accents, but it also includes the accents in Scotland and Wales.