Dialects, and accents
Watch this postI am sure that there are people from different counties, and countries on this site, with regional accents and brogues. Is it still regarded as "de rigueur "not to speak the Queen's english or, as a news reader ? Do dialects put people into a lower category of person, and, in some cases, side tracked for a person who speaks "properly " with regards to being employed. I am Yorkshire, but do not have a full blown regional accent, which non Yorkshire people do not recognise, but is picked up immediately by the ones that belong , and am usually asked ",are you from Yorkshire?" and my response is always "Of course I am ".
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Does a gull from The Shetland Isles understand a gull from the Isles of Scilly ?
Didn't help that my mum was Scottish and told me to speak properly...what ! I'm proud to have Scottish blood but come on the Scots are as guilty as anyone for their daft sayings and accents. My dad used to stick up for me and say "She's Yorkshire born & bred "
I love the Geordie accent I could listen to it for ever, and the Liverpool accent makes me laugh whatever they say.
unwilling to admit,,, or expose where their accent points to ???