How/why is it that there are different regional accents according to where someone grew up? eg, scouse,cockney
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Good question, ive often wondered the same thing, i think it is cool that people from different areas have different accents, in Scottland nealry every area has its own accent, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Orkney, Sutherland, Borders. Most people not from an area cant distiguish the accent, but it seems the older the country the more varied the dialects and accents
what the 'hear, here' is how you learn to form the sounds that make up the language----in this case 'locally'
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The same as animals in the wild learn their mothers 'voice' we get it from our parents. Although if you ask any British soldier he/she will tell you about the squaddie accent - we loose our own and all start to sound the same! spooky
Good question too bad I don't have a good answer.
It is mainly because of the many immigrants of different nationalities who settled in different parts of the UK. Cwmraig, Scots, Angles, Saxons, Norwegians, Danes, and many more.
London in particular has had greatest variety of nationalities, and the process is continuing nationwide.
It is essential that an island population, such as ours, has immigration and emigration to maintain a healthy gene pool, otherwise ultimately everybody would be related to everybody else.
Now, what was that question again?
hey up Thar knows nowt till Thar's bin up north when Thar gits darn ta mill,
Dialect is your heritage Ive live in ESSEX for 38 years but I still have my northern dialect, I was a Soldier for 17yrs and hate the term one of your answers had Squaddie. Still,it doesn't matter where you come from in the world each country as many dialects
It it mainly to to with the fact that the UK in an island that is subject to frequent invasion.
If every native Englishman was to look at their family tree and go far back enough generations, they would find that very few of them are genuine native Englishmen! Each regional accent is dependant on the origin of people who originally settled there. For instance, most people from the far north e.g. Newcastle, Sunderland and Carlisle are probably Scottish in origin, whereas those born and bred just a little further south such as Yorkshire and Lincolnshire may have roots in Scandinavia due to a Viking invasion around the 9th Century AD.
One main factor to consider is that "England" is a variation of the name "Angleland" which was the name given to the land by a race who originated from an area in modern Germany (Which is why German was easier to learn than French at school!). Another main factor is that until Caxton invented the printing press in the 1500s, England was a lot bigger that it used to be. Each region had a opportunity to develop its own dialect from the many origins if their original settlers. As a result, an English person from 14th century Yorkshire would sound like a total foreigner to someone from Berkshire.
because there parents learn them to speak and they imiate how they sound!!
On a wider level regional accents generally reflect the hsitorci settlement sin areas e.g. some areas have had a lot of welsh and itrish settles, some in old Norse areas, others have had periods of danish and dutch settlers and this over time has blended into a regional accent, ok kidda?
I think we've got more accents than anywhere else. I pretty sure it's 'coz Scotland came from some other land and then atached, so we got their language and accents + all of the gaelic languages leaving their mark in accents. Oh, and i gues we have loads of different ones near the coast 'coz of immigrants and all of the ports we have.
It's probably mainly because we're an island close to so many different countries and 'coz we advanced technologically quite quickly, so were discovering new places and people and bringing them back to britain before other countries did. Without telecommunications we learnt off each other, so speech used to be the most important way of getting information.
Anyway, alot to think about, that's just my view. Don't really know if it's correct.
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