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British, except a scant minority.
There are some that speak a beautiful English.....I'm venturing that it has to do more with social class and education than with regional differences.
No, English accents are to do with regional differences.
No, English accents are to do with regional differences.
And class. A Gorbals or Coatbgidge accent is nothing like a Newton Mearns accent, and I'm sure people from leafy Surrey suburbia don't say "fink" for think.
And class. A Gorbals or Coatbgidge accent is nothing like a Newton Mearns accent, and I'm sure people from leafy Surrey suburbia don't say "fink" for think.
But not everybody in Surrey is 'upper class', like elsewhere in the world Surrey has its own accent. There are plenty of working class people in Surrey that sound like the queen! I know that there definately is a kind of 'upper class' accent but you cant say accents are 'class orientated' only! Just because you have a Geordie or Scouse accent it doesn't make you 'uneducated' or 'low class'!!!
But not everybody in Surrey is 'upper class', like elsewhere in the world Surrey has its own accent. There are plenty of working class people in Surrey that sound like the queen! I know that there definately is a kind of 'upper class' accent but you cant say accents are 'class orientated' only! Just because you have a Geordie or Scouse accent it doesn't make you 'uneducated' or 'low class'!!!
Of course not, but within Geordieland and Scouseland there are several different accents and in many cases the differences are class-related.
Do this experiment: take the Neilston or Newton Mearns trains from Glasgow Central. In the same carriage you will see kids headed to the working class areas closer to the city centre such as Pollokshields and kids headed to the leafy upper-middle class suburbs like Neilston and Newton Mearns. You'll find both sets speak very differently. None of them speak like the Queen, they all sound Scottish, but the accents are very different.
True country Jamaican spoken by Jamaicans to Jamaicans is extremely difficult for me to understand. They tend to mellow the accent a bit when speaking to non-Jamaicans, but sometimes it can still be tough with some individuals.
I agree. Jamaican can be extremely difficult to understand. At times it is hard to recognize it as English.
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