By Accents, Dialects

By extension of the telly, the world is a smaller place giving exposure to countless dialects. However, being exposed to them in person is a different matter. I personally am a Glaswegian with 20 years of living in London to dilute my brogue. The value of it had never really occured to me until...

Maybe it is because I am not a native speaker, but I do not see al the homophones here....rait and raid, that´s okslim - ?great - grateprey - ?while - wilesaid - sad ( at least in some dialects or accents )but what are those of slim and prey?

Hi I am a speech teacheer in Victoria BC, Canada. I have been teaching all dialects and especially American standard for many years.My name is gabrielle Contact me and I will help. Gabrielle Levin

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I am Italian, two years ago my father and I decided to visit a friend of him who is from Middlesbrough; we decided to spent some days in London, then visit the eastern Wales, stay some days vith this friend and then spent some days in Edinburgh. I am quite good at English, I can understand it...

Mike Myers's parents are Scottish, and he lived in the UK for a long time. He was formerly a children's tv presenter in the UK. You will be able to find the name of Renee Zellweger's dialect coach by looking at the credits of one of her films. Gordon Brown does NOT, by any stretch of the...

>> When I say mixed accent, I mean an accent which is very close to a native accent. For instance, a Japanese or Yoruban person might speak 'Cockney', and Americans and Australians would think that Cockney is the speaker's native accent. However, Cockneys (and most other Londoners) would...

This is a bit of a myth. There was never a single British accent for American to be 'nearer' to. The short a sound still features in a lot of English accents. Less than 5% of British people speak RP.

>> whoa. i am from central ny (for those of us who know that upstate is not anything above westchester). we definitely do not have the accent or use any of those pronunciations that you mentioned. << Haha. I see what's going on. Check this out. Xam0 said: cat - keeyat mat -...

>> But in the US maybe it's normal to consider California English as a dialect of American English. << Actually it is generally just lumped into the Western dialect along with Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, etc. And yes, dialects in North...