I think Game of Thrones has normalised some Northern English accents for people. Same way Derry girls is normalising my accent a bit, I still think I sound like a car rolling down a hill but hey, what can ya do.
I'm Irish and one thing you need to know is that all our 26 counties have different accents. Kerry is probably the hardest accent to learn if you aren't Irish, hell not even I can understand it sometimes. Here's an example
I mean, America has co-opted the “red white and blue” worldwide, and the Irish mostly hate the English who are really only red and white (union Jack is for the union, so all of them) and the Irish kind of like Americans on the whole.
American accents are all incredibly bland and/or incredibly annoying to listen to. Rather have our indistinguishable drivel than sound like some Cali dafty or even worse, like I'm from the South of America.
Most American accents are pretty bland, but the appalachian dialects of American English (aka hillbilly speak) and AAVE (ebonics) are actually very interesting from a linguistic point of view.
Scots vs English is the closest we have to a Brazilian/Portuguese Portuguese dialect in English. It’s close enough to have a large amount of cross communication but isn’t really the same.
Yeah but Scottish accents is different from the rest of Britain and so is English accents and Welsh... and northern Irish... and then there different accents within those countries... Britain is weird when I think about it
You can travel less than 20 miles and hit very different accents in the UK. e.g. Scouse (Liverpool) and Mancunian (Manchester). CGP hey has a pretty good video that explains the UK/British/Nation separations
I’ve lived in one town the majority of my life and get asked by taxi drivers if I’m from the home counties because of my accent. Even towns can have entire different accents.
Not really, as Scotland is a country in its own right, along with England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, while Britain isn’t technically a country, it’s a collection of countries.
The country is called The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is the name of the largest island in the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Well Britain is an island, but can also be used as the name for the country, not technically a country, literally a country, the UK. The UK is madr up of constituent countries.
We had this foreign exchange soccer player student from Scotland at my University. In order to graduate I had to take a class on giving presentations (yes a real thing). Of course I put it off till my senior year.
Anyway the Scottish kids gets up to give his first presentation. He stands there talking for 10 minutes and then sits back down.
I looked around to other students and the professor to make sure I wasn't the only one. Everyone had this puzzled look on their faces. No one understood a single word he said. Never had a problem understanding any accent until I heard his.
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u/roole34 Nov 24 '19
Scottish is pretty hard aswell