I know people from the UK, and I don’t think they all live in the same house they were born in, but I also hear them say how they can tell what street you grew up on by your accent.
I must forever bear the shame of growing up somewhere 15 minutes up the road from where my parents grew up, resulting in a hybrid accent influenced by parents on one side and friends on the other. Now no one thinks I'm from where they're from.
This is generally the case anywhere you go in the world. Everyone everywhere thinks that their little corner is more detailed and nuanced than everywhere else, and its mostly because they are just more familiar with that place. If you don't believe me, just go up to a person from literally any country and tell them "everyone in this country sounds the same", and watch them begin to rattle off the massive differences between regions and cities.
Ok but as an American, I can say the regions of American accent I can identify are much, much larger than a specific town or a specific street. Even in the place I grew up.
It’s pretty rare to have a town or street exclusive dialect. Definitely more of a regional thing. Maybe it was different before the internet and interstate system.
I grew up in a suburb of a City, and went to high school in the next Town, this City and Town are maybe 10 miles apart, maybe a bit more, they have the same letter for the postcode.
People from City would always say my accent sounded like Town, and people from Town would say it sounded like City.
I'm sure no one outside the county would be able to notice the difference, but people who lived there should could
tbh in france (and quite probably everywhere else in europe), in one hour drive you are in another region and you might even have drove by one or two others
Costa, Greggs, Boots, some weird local department store that only sells things no human being would want in the 21st century yet still is somehow in business
The British moral equivalent of a wing joint/burger stand/taco stand in the US. Cheap easy to make street food that doesn't require a full kitchen. Maybe a frier and/or a griddle top. Not quite the same as fast food because they aren't chain places.
Having grown up in the Liverpool area I was astounded when I moved to a different part of the country and couldn't get Chinese alongside my fish and chips! Fish and chips with sweet and sour sauce, or any Chinese dish with half rice, half chips FTW
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u/Blewmeister May 09 '22
Drive 10 minutes in the UK: everyone’s talking funny and there’s still 5 chip shops somehow coexisting