[ SECRET POST #2881 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2881 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This.

Although it makes me even more endeared by the secret. Those podfics sound hilarious.

[(Anonymous)]

Either they've gone all "cor blimey Mary Poppins! Knees up Mother Brown" or they're doing RP Cumber-posh. Nothing outside the M25, that's for sure

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Do you have some examples of accents that express such diversity (I know there must be, undoubtedly)?

[not being a smart ass,just curious as to what you'd consider the varying norm]

[(Anonymous)]

Britain and Ireland (taken together, because they formed a single political entity from the middle ages until 80 years ago) have more accent diversity than the entire United States and Canada put together. There are several hundred accents, some of which constitute dialects, and it's impossible to detail them all in a comment like this. There is no normal or "standard" accent and no element of pronunciation that is common to the whole of Britain and Ireland. There can be a degree of incomprehension even though everyone is speaking English - someone from inner city London may struggle with some rural Scottish or Northern Irish accents and vice versa.

Received Pronunciation, which is the "posh" upper/upper middle class English accent that internet Americans typically think of as British, is actually only spoken by 2% of the population as their primary accent, but you could be forgiven for thinking it is more common that it is because it is heavily over-represented in broadcasting and used to be a required skill for actors.

Americans also tend to conflate English and British, leaving out Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which are the other bits of the UK, and close neighbour the Republic of Ireland, all of which have distinctive and highly varied groups of accents. Accent is, to a degree, influenced by social class background (see RP, above, and Scottish Standard English), as well as whether you are from an urban or rural area. All regions and major cities have distinctive local slang and dialect words that may be unknown outside the area.

The British Library has a sound library that might help - http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks! The site is incredibly interesting.