Is a british accent then same as an english accent?

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Answer 1

The word 'British' does always seem to be linked with England rather than the other countries. However, there are tons of different accents in England. Most of the big cities have completely different accents, i.e. Liverpool, Birmingham, Newcastle, London....all have their own accent

Answer 2

In short, the answer is Yes.

(Great) Britain geographically includes Scotland, England, and Wales. However, linguistically the BRITISH accent is the same as the English accent, which particularly refers to the Queens ENGLISH accent (also used by general public living in the South-West portion of London and many other parts of England).

I know in London East-enders have a different accent to the West end. However East-enders do not speak English, unless the English language has been abbreviated to 100 words, of which 80 are swearing words.

Answer 3

Dinox - Britain does NOT =Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland!! GB = Wales, Scotland and England. The Republic of Ireland has NOTHING to do with Britain. NI is part of the UK.

Answer 4

there is no one British Accent

A British Accent could be any of the hundreds of if not thousands of accents that can be found on the Island of Great Britain

Britain includes England, Scotland and Wales

and within each of these countries there are various regional accents

Answer 5

Not really.

A British accent can either be English, Scottish, or Welsh.

An English accent is obviously just English.

And if you've heard a Scottish accent before - it's very different to English. Well most of them.

There are a LOT of VERY different (english) accents that you've probably never even heard of.  We don't all have that stereotypical accent. (although i do).

I mean, people say i have a British accent, and okay - i guess i do. But i do not sound Scottish, nor Welsh.

The Scottish do not sound English or Welsh.

The welsh one is just a bit odd...

I have an English accent. And it annoys me when people say i sound 'British'

Answer 6

no all of Briton is different  same as English have we now got one ?  there are so many different regional dialects

Answer 7

No. Whoever has said 'yes' in this question, is quite frankly incorrect.

Britain is NOT the same as England. England is a country in Britain, but there's more to Britain than that. As I am sure you can imagine, not all of these countries can have one single identical accent.

Britain consists of four countries- England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. (My apologies, for the sake of not making it too complicated for someone who doesn't know the difference between 'British and English accents', confusing them with the difference between Britain and the UK would be too much. Don't go round giving a thumbs down just because you want your answer to win, thanks.) The first three are grouped together as one island, and Ireland is separate just to the left. (See here- http://www.sherlock-holmes.org/atlas/ima... )

In each separate country in Britain alone, there are hundreds of accents. I live in England and the different accents you can find are so diverse. It would probably be slightly offensive to say that a Scot or Welshman has an 'English' accent!

So basically, even though England makes up part of Britain, 'England' and 'Britain' are not the same thing, therefore the accents are not the same. There are many different accents in London alone. There is no such thing as a British accent, we're more specific than that. (And for future reference, none of us are too keen on being called 'British'- if we're from England, we're English.. if we're from Scotland, we're Scottish!) (;

The couple of links may interest you, you can find out about different accents in different regions of the UK:

http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collecti...

http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds...

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Answer 8

Neither term, British accent or English accent, has any real meaning. The accents within Britain, which of course includes Scotland and Wales, are so varied and numerous that the only real  way to classify such accents, is for example:

Clydeside (a Scottish regional accent), or Yorkshire (an English regional accent).    What most Americans fondly assume is a British/English accent is a Hollywood invention, and you would never hear such in these islands.

Billy Connolly has a Clydeside accent and Sean Bean has a Yorkshire accent.

Answer 9

yeah i think sooo.

Answer 10

I think (Great) Britain includes Ireland, Scotland and Wales as well.

Answer 11

Well, compare Robbie Coltrane's accent (Hagrid in the Harry Potter films) with Charlotte Church and then Hugh Grant.

Their accents are nothing alike.

England is one country of Britain. Scotland and Wales have strong accents too

Answer 12

yes it is.

Answer 13

I think that most people would associate the "British" accent with the accent of England. But the truth is that there are many different English accents within England and within the countries of the United Kingdom, e.g. Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, Canada, etc.

Technically, a British accent could refer to any of these accents. To the non-British ear, however, they might all sound like they're from England.