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13 Jan 2026, 11:01 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
It doesn't seem to matter where you live, if you speak with any kind of heavy accent, people automatically think you're Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel. :?

there's a sliding scale. One extreme is a BBC broadcaster and the other end the person needs a translator.



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13 Jan 2026, 11:09 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
But thanks to an obscure British children's show I've realized the UK has many different types of English accents and dialects.

Scot's English and many northern English dialects were isolated from the great vowel shift from the 15th century and have retained a lot of Middle English which makes their version of English challenging to understand.