Country dialects - do they all have them?

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Here in the U.S. we have many that help us get a feel of where people are from.
Upper east coast, Southern mid states, Mid West, Northern Mid states, Southern East coast,
Southern West Coast, etc. Can even still be divided by rural and bigger towns.
I noticed dialects when I went to England from the more northern parts having a mixing of English and Scottish,
to watering down as you got further south.

I find dialects fascinating and love hearing stories from people how their dialect can cause an immediate assumption
of the type of person they are. It happens pretty often, with either good or bad results.
Care to share any stories of how dialects effect you or how you feel when you hear a certain type?
Love to hear them!
 
I travel to the UK often and hear different dialects all over the country. However, I've never been able to tell where a person came from by listening to them speak. I assume (?) Brits can tell if you're from Yorkshire or Cornwall?
My "worst" experience was in Scotland where I needed help with train schedules, and I had to go to three different people at the station because I could not understand them. That was in Helensburgh if that means anything to the scots here.
 
retiredtraveler said:
I travel to the UK often and hear different dialects all over the country. However, I've never been able to tell where a person came from by listening to them speak. I assume (?) Brits can tell if you're from Yorkshire or Cornwall?
My "worst" experience was in Scotland where I needed help with train schedules, and I had to go to three different people at the station because I could not understand them. That was in Helensburgh if that means anything to the scots here.
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In a online game we added a voice chat program and the one Scot we had on the team, said he didn't think he should come into it (in typed chat) He said "You'd never understand me if I did" He did come in and nope.. we sure didn't so our guy from Wales translated for him since
he had businesses in Scotland he had learned to communicate and understand it.
 
I was told I had a Northern West Coast accent and it surprised me as to me, I sound like everyone who isn't from the South or Northern states.

I had a difficult time understanding people here in Florida with Southern accents but now they are easy to understand.
 
Years ago I worked in an underground quasi government facility. We'd have high ranking military and politicians pay us visits. One day in the break room I heard someone talking and I turned around and said, you're from Canada. He laughed and said yes he was and so happy to run into someone who understood what he was saying.
 
robin416 said:
Years ago I worked in an underground quasi government facility. We'd have high ranking military and politicians pay us visits. One day in the break room I heard someone talking and I turned around and said, you're from Canada. He laughed and said yes he was and so happy to run into someone who understood what he was saying.
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My sister married a man from Quebec he was a Civil Service Conservation and got transferred to B.C. Everyone who heard him there
referred to him as "Ya know...the Frog". He had a French name too that gave him away Marcel, so that was a bit obvious.
 
Living in Chicago area you hear many many language accents. In Aldi's one day I was in an aisle with a young couple and I
was caught by the beauty of the language they were speaking to their child. I had to ask them what it was. It was almost like
singing in a way. They smiled and said it was an African dialect, but I can't remember the village or area now. I told them how
beautiful it sounded and pleasurable to hear. They grinned so big and thanked me. You can meet the most charming people
in such odd ways.
 

Country dialects - do they all have them?​


Oh yes, we have lots and lots of accents and dialects here in the UK.
Of course, I'm from the most 'elite' part, 'we'll eat' anyone. :LOL:
 
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