By Accents, Dialects

I think the problem is that people conflate accent and dialect. Accent varies from region to region when people use standard English. Vocabulary and grammar vary very little, and guessing nationality online can be tricky. If someone with an average educational background cannot use the vocabulary...

Yes, indeed sir, but there's hardly any proving such, for there be few souls who be able to legislate well on what we must and must not be doing in such and such an accent. It be one of the ways in which the talk of gentlefolk is different than that of us country lads. We surely have no...

Hello, sirs. I be applying to join in your conversations. I have noticed that those around me what tend to stick with dialect do tend to be those fellows who consciously reject the education what is provided by the centre. I humbly submit, sirs, that those who uses dialects do in fact tend to be...

both you and your HR dept would know what you meant; and whatever your private definition, you would still be sent on the polysyllabic five-day course. MrP

>You mention accent there, MrP. How would you define "dialect"? > <Sorry, I meant to imply "dialect".>Same question: How would you define "dialect", MrP?

<If you told your HR dept that you had rejected a candidate solely because he had a West Country accent, you would be immediately sent on a five-day course and forced to learn punishing quantities of bewildering polysyllables.>You mention accent there, MrP. How would you define...

I haven't seen any evidence that "dialect discrimination" is "openly legitimised" in UK workplaces. If you told your HR dept that you had rejected a candidate solely because he had a West Country accent, you would be immediately sent on a five-day course and forced to...

Hi, I had never heard of that expression, and it's just perfect! I've known some people from South Wales (Swansea and Cardiff, especially) and they really seemed to sing while speaking, because of their usage of intonation. It took me some time to get used to it, but it was not difficult...

Welsh people speak English with a distinctive lilting accent that is often described as "sing-song". The Welsh accent is not uniform across the whole of Wales though; for example, in north-east Wales the accent sounds to me quite like a Liverpool accent. I'm not an expert on...

Well, I assume that all British people know Standard English or the Queen's English as others call it.And what about the American varieties? I know there is a general American accent. But I heard there are also varieties of American English. So, are those varieties great when compared to the...