Dialects of English explained, for Spanish Speakers

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English isn't colorful enough to have dialects. We got accents but that's as far as variation goes

Well..in the New World English probably doesn't vary enough yet for it's variants to be called "dialects". The way americans speak in LA differs less from how Canadians speak in Ottawa, or even from how southern US speakers speak, is less than how Englishmen in England speak thirty miles apart. Within England it could be called "dialects" I would th ink. similar with Spanish. The Spanish within Spain differs more in few dozen miles than does the Spanish of Mexico differs the Spanish of Argentina thousands of miles away.

The way americans speak

Ey oop, tha... nowt wrong wi' a bit o' dialect, as uz can tell thee in Yorkshire. Mind, yer full-on Yorkshire's summat you don't hear much nowadays 'cept out in't sticks. But I bin here fifteen year, so mebbe I'm just used to it, like. We gorra least three ways o' saying't word "water:" "watter," "wasser," and same way them Southerners do. Anyroad, listen thysen an' tha may find yer own English ent no better nor ours.

Lowland Scots English might qualify as a dialect.

Some English speaking populations in the Caribbean might use what would be considered dialects, for example English speakers on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua.