Amazing! Now do a similarly split up map that just focuses on the variations of the Black Country accent. I can’t always hear the difference, but some locals can narrow down where someone grew up to a mile radius.
Can’t help but think this is just the counties or areas with “dialect” after it.
Pretty cool map, and it would be cool to see an interactive map like this linked to audio of people saying the same sentence in each of the different dialects.
It’s a lot more complex than this though. For example, the accent and dialect variation in London / South East is pretty much impossible to display on a map because it depends much more on social class and generation than geography in my opinion!
In general accents change every 10-15 miles, and the slang words for things don’t necessarily always correlate with the borders. There are also basic errors. Someone from Dorchester wouldn’t sound the same as someone from Tewkesbury, and yet on the map they’re lumped together in West Country.
Also, Grampian doesn’t make any sense. Someone from Aberdeen doesn’t sound like someone from Grantown.
Corbyite represented!
Wigan getting it’s own little corner of Greater Manchester is spot on, go five miles in any direction and the accent is wildly different.
Grampian can be split into about another 10 sections for dialect
No man is an island (except Barry).
I really like that the Corby accent is represented here. I live nearby and love that we have a small town in the East Midlands with a hybrid Scottish accent localised to this particular town. It rarely bleeds into the surrounding villages either. Just Corby. I’m also a big ufc fan and they’ve recently signed a lad from Corby, its quite funny to hear the accent getting some international airtime
Needs some divisions in Lincolnshire. Someone from Grimsby does not sound like someone from Grantham.
Apparently I’m chatting “Cheshire” up here in the hills in Peak District middle of nowhere.
Absolutely not. We all speak like “alreet me ewd” country bumpkin
Someone got very lazy making this map. Which is fine, but don’t then publish it.
The border between West Country and Southeast is ever so slightly too far east; around the Bournemouth area it should be moved to just west of Poole.
BCP is so urban that it doesn’t really have one defining accent anymore.
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Amazing! Now do a similarly split up map that just focuses on the variations of the Black Country accent. I can’t always hear the difference, but some locals can narrow down where someone grew up to a mile radius.
Can’t help but think this is just the counties or areas with “dialect” after it.
Pretty cool map, and it would be cool to see an interactive map like this linked to audio of people saying the same sentence in each of the different dialects.
It’s a lot more complex than this though. For example, the accent and dialect variation in London / South East is pretty much impossible to display on a map because it depends much more on social class and generation than geography in my opinion!
In general accents change every 10-15 miles, and the slang words for things don’t necessarily always correlate with the borders. There are also basic errors. Someone from Dorchester wouldn’t sound the same as someone from Tewkesbury, and yet on the map they’re lumped together in West Country.
Also, Grampian doesn’t make any sense. Someone from Aberdeen doesn’t sound like someone from Grantown.
Corbyite represented!
Wigan getting it’s own little corner of Greater Manchester is spot on, go five miles in any direction and the accent is wildly different.
No Doric ?
https://imgur.com/a/welTnHV an example of Caithness dialect
Grampian can be split into about another 10 sections for dialect
No man is an island (except Barry).
I really like that the Corby accent is represented here. I live nearby and love that we have a small town in the East Midlands with a hybrid Scottish accent localised to this particular town. It rarely bleeds into the surrounding villages either. Just Corby. I’m also a big ufc fan and they’ve recently signed a lad from Corby, its quite funny to hear the accent getting some international airtime
Needs some divisions in Lincolnshire. Someone from Grimsby does not sound like someone from Grantham.
Apparently I’m chatting “Cheshire” up here in the hills in Peak District middle of nowhere.
Absolutely not. We all speak like “alreet me ewd” country bumpkin
Someone got very lazy making this map. Which is fine, but don’t then publish it.
The border between West Country and Southeast is ever so slightly too far east; around the Bournemouth area it should be moved to just west of Poole.
BCP is so urban that it doesn’t really have one defining accent anymore.
[Hello we’re Cockneys!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4oaGQ2POC8)
Funnily enough, the “southeast english” accent is precisely where I imagine the midlands to be, with everything above it being “northern”
“Kentish” is literally Estuary.
Barnsley definitely differs from the rest of South Yorkshire 😉
Shout out to ‘Ull ✌️
They’ve put St Helens in with Scouse when they sound nothing alike (despite being Merseyside) – think the map isn’t broken down enough
I lived in Norway for a number of years and I’ve met people from Shetland whose accent sounds much like Norwegians speaking English.
Corbyite lmao
Ayyyyyy Potteries gets a mention ✌🏻