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Listen to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar?' website; A national map of the regional dialects of American English; IDEA Archived 2006-09-01 at the Wayback Machine – International Dialects of English Archive; English Dialects – English Dialects around the world
English: Maps of Dialect areas in Uk and Ireland. Based on Hughes & Trudgill, 1996, "English Accents and Dialects" Other information. Based on the following maps and information:
A map displaying the localities included in the Survey of English Dialects. The Survey of English Dialects was undertaken between 1950 and 1961 under the direction of Professor Harold Orton of the English department of the University of Leeds.
Accents and dialects vary widely across Great Britain, Ireland and nearby smaller islands. The UK has the most local accents of any English-speaking country [citation needed]. As such, a single "British accent" does not exist. Someone could be said to have an English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish accent, although these all have many different ...
British English (abbreviations: BrE, en-GB, and BE) [3] is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United Kingdom. [6] More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialects of English throughout the British Isles taken as a single umbrella variety, for instance additionally incorporating Scottish English ...
The dialects of northern England share some features with Scots that those of southern England do not. The regional dialects of England were once extremely varied, as is recorded in Joseph Wright 's English Dialect Dictionary and the Survey of English Dialects , but they have died out over time so that regional differences are now largely in ...
In England, the 66 sites had all been part of the earlier Survey of English Dialects. Viereck noted that the 1970s fieldwork of the ALE demonstrated widespread lexical erosion in English dialects since the SED (e.g. the word "icicle" had become universal in England and displaced other dialect words). [8]
The three largest recognisable dialect groups in England are Southern English dialects, Midlands English dialects and Northern England English dialects. The most prominent isogloss is the foot–strut split, which runs roughly from mid-Shropshire (on the Welsh border) to south of Birmingham and then to the Wash.