Dialects & Accents (Was Re: Subject-Verb agreement with compound subjects)

[Goddlefrood]

> Geoff:
> Ah, you mean YorkSHIRE. York is the main city in the district.
> 
> Yorkshire is not the only strong regional accent. I can quote 
> Lancashire, Northumberland, Cumbrian, various Welsh accents, 
> ditto Scots, then a range of West Country accents without even 
> touching the East and South-east...

Goddlefrood:

You also do a good line in cockney, dontcha guv'nor?

There are some who claim to be able to distinguish between 
accents to such an extent that the very street one grew up 
in is discernible. Any who are familiar with Jimmy White the 
snooker player would know his accent to be quite distinctive. 
I met a man some years ago who sounded like the vocal twin of 
Mr. White and he informed me I had the wrong street as he lived 
a few streets away from Jimmy.

In terms of Cheshire, where I'm ostensibly from, I can 
distinguish between towns. Chester varies from Warrington 
(a distance of perhaps 15 miles) quite noticeably and other 
towns in the centre, east, south or north of Cheshire differ 
from those two very distinctly. My town has given the world 
- well, the immediate world of said town anyway - the word 
chudder, but I doubt if that would be found in any dictionary.

Having been to the States several times, I can also discern 
a large difference in accents from city to city and state to 
state. Those on a micro level will, I have no doubt, tell us 
that from Mukwanago to Troy or from Albany to Buffalo there 
is a difference in accent.

Hoots man

Goddlefrood