Can you tell what part of Britain people are from from their accent ?

Question

Like in America southern and eastern accents are pretty telling.

How many different accents are there that you know of ?

Answer 1

Sometimes. Depends on how strong it is. Not all American accents are strong either - the strong pronounced regional accents are the easiest to pick out.

Scottish is the hardest for me to understand at times.

Answer 2

Definately! I live in what's known as the Black Country, its in the West Midlands and we have a really strong regional dialect. Take a listen:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/voices...

Answer 3

Yeah, it's usually quite easy, but accents are slowly dying off now, what with modern technology people from all over the country are talking to one another on a daily basis so everything is sort of sounding the same (or it will in around 200 years time)

You can always tell when someone is from the West Midlands, Cornwall, Yorkshire, Essex. Much like you can tell if someone is from NY or Texas.

Answer 4

Yeah there are loads

Scottish

Welsh

Cockney

Cornish

Birmingham accents (Brummie)

Liverpool accents

Hull accents

etc...