Perhaps to a certain extent, but accent is much more a pointer to geographic region. Very well educated (upper class) people will usually speak standard (or 'Oxford' English), but some people are proud of their origins and will keep the

I´m an English teacher and when I´m giving class there are all these questions about pronunciation. I work with other teachers some from Ireland, London, Scotland, and Americans. Each teacher is teaching with a different accent. Then the books are

scots and irish accents are heavily gaelic/celtic influenced. there's a heavy rhythm in the speech, and the reason that it's so hard is that in such small countries we probably have over 30 variations (each) on the accent. if you want to

The problem with this survey is that it assumes everyone in a country has the same accent. Someone from Yorkshire hardly sounds like someone from the East End of London, and someone from Mobile, Alabama, will not sound a bit like someone born and

Hi Thanks for the reply Avangi. I'll give you more context to my second question: Growing up I had two different accents, one I would use to communicate with my family, a soft Welsh lilt, the other for my friends, featuring the

Why, in *my* day we lived in a cardboard box and had to read PPE at Brasenose or else it wasn't really a degree. Luxury!! We used to dream of reading PPE at Brasenose. We had to read BCL WITH AN IRISH ACCENT while eating a bowl of cold gravel

Why, in *my* day we lived in a cardboard box and had to read PPE at Brasenose or else it wasn't really a degree. Luxury!! We used to dream of reading PPE at Brasenose. We had to read BCL WITH AN IRISH ACCENT while eating a bowl of cold gravel

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