Must be loads?!! someomne must have a precise number somewhere!
2006-10-23 08:46:38 · 13 answers · asked by Benny* 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Dont know how many - there are alot though.
2006-10-23 08:49:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take the number of Counties multiply by four North,South,East & West add in City or Rural living and the numbers grow. Now do the same for Scotland, Ireland, & Wales and the numbers increase again. As accents can also vary slightly within a few miles the answer would need a Mathematician To work out "Precise Number"
I dont know of anyone who has done it!
2006-10-23 15:59:06 · answer #2 · answered by willowGSD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is considerable variation in accents in England. Notable geographical accents include West Country (counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset and to a slightly lesser extent Bristol), North East (Northumbria, Durham, Newcastle), Lancashire (with regional variants of Bolton, Manchester, Liverpool, Blackpool), Yorkshire (Leeds, Sheffield, York, East Riding), West Midlands (Black country, Dudley, Birmingham). Even within these broad categories there is considerable difference in inflection and pronunciation.
And then we have Romanians, Polish, French, Spanish, German, Pakistani, Afro Caribean, Aussies, Indian and Bangladeshi, Armenian, Greek, Turkish, Russian...I have Probably missed out a country, oh American, Portugese, Israeli, Arabic, the list is endless
2006-10-23 15:56:44 · answer #3 · answered by untanuta 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow!
You try going to Stoke -on-Trent. There must be nine regional accents there!
Never known a place like it!
Some sound like scousers, some mancs, some Cheshire, some Staffs......well weird!
2006-10-23 15:55:50 · answer #4 · answered by Moorglademover 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you allow every nuance of change then you have to accept that Regional accents in the UK change every 25 miles, in every direction! To calculate how many that would be is beyond my will to live but in must be thousands.
2006-10-23 15:51:34 · answer #5 · answered by weaver 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Scottish. Welsh. Northern Irish. English.
2006-10-23 15:49:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lahndon
Estuary English
Brummie
Scouser
Manc
Cockney
Yardie
Paki init
Injun
Taffy
Scot
Northern Paddy
Irish paddy
Working class/chav
West country burr
Cornish pasty
Norfolk farmer
Geordie
Macam
Yorkshire
Various East European imports
Home counties
Essex tart
Snob
Queen's English
That's a few I know and hear.
2006-10-23 15:58:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Every major town and city has it's own form of speach. There are hundreds of dialects.
2006-10-23 15:52:31 · answer #8 · answered by estee.tabernac 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
there is Cornish,Welsh,London,Scottish,and the rest of England is Pakistani
2006-10-23 15:50:24 · answer #9 · answered by tacho 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ask an american,they will tell you 1,and that is the pathetic one that dick van dyke spoke with in the film mary poppins,gaw blimey guv.
2006-10-23 15:54:16 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋