Accent – the particular features of a person’s pronunciation/ the national, local, or individual way of pronouncing words.

ACCENT/DIALECT/VARIANT

Accent – the particular features of a person’s pronunciation/ the national, local, or individual way of pronouncing words.

e. g.: The official English accent is called RP (Received Pronunciation). This is the accent of the Royal Family. Fewer than 5% of English-speakers in the world have an RP accent.

Dialect – the form of a language (with differences in grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation) used in a part of a country or by a class of people/ a variety of a language with a particular vocabulary and grammar regionally or socially based.

Urban dialects in the UK include

· Brummy (spoken in Birmingham)

· Scouse (spoken in Liverpool)

· Geordie (spoken in Newcastle)

· Cockney (spoken in the East End of London). It is renowned for the use of the rhyming slang, the back slang, dropping of the initial h, weakened vowel sounds, substitution of some consonants.

Regional dialects in the UK include

· Scottish dialect

· Welsh dialect

· Irish dialect

Variant – the form of a language (with differences in grammar, vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation) used as an official language in different countries of the world; with their peculiar standards fixed in dictionaries, textbooks, etc., e. g.:

· British English

· American English

· Australian English

· New Zealand English

Other languages spoken in the UK. As well as English, there are three other languages in the UK. Today, only a few thousand people speak each of them. They are

· Cornish (in Cornwall)

· Welsh (in Wales)

· Gaelic (in parts of western Ireland and northern Scotland)

ACCENT/DIALECT/VARIANT

Accent – the particular features of a person’s pronunciation/ the national, local, or individual way of pronouncing words.

e. g.: The official English accent is called RP (Received Pronunciation). This is the accent of the Royal Family. Fewer than 5% of English-speakers in the world have an RP accent.

Dialect – the form of a language (with differences in grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation) used in a part of a country or by a class of people/ a variety of a language with a particular vocabulary and grammar regionally or socially based.

Urban dialects in the UK include

· Brummy (spoken in Birmingham)

· Scouse (spoken in Liverpool)

· Geordie (spoken in Newcastle)

· Cockney (spoken in the East End of London). It is renowned for the use of the rhyming slang, the back slang, dropping of the initial h, weakened vowel sounds, substitution of some consonants.

Regional dialects in the UK include

· Scottish dialect

· Welsh dialect

· Irish dialect

Variant – the form of a language (with differences in grammar, vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation) used as an official language in different countries of the world; with their peculiar standards fixed in dictionaries, textbooks, etc., e. g.:

· British English

· American English

· Australian English

· New Zealand English

Other languages spoken in the UK. As well as English, there are three other languages in the UK. Today, only a few thousand people speak each of them. They are

· Cornish (in Cornwall)

· Welsh (in Wales)

· Gaelic (in parts of western Ireland and northern Scotland)

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