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The north-south divide: bath or baaath?
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| The north-south divide: bath or baaath?
Perhaps the easiest indicator of which part of the country a person comes from is their pronunciation of the “a” sound in words such as “bath” and “grass”. The “long a”, which has been compared to the sound a person makes when the doctor examines their throat, is almost exclusively found in the South East of England. In contrast, using the short “a” for these words (/æ/ as in cat) tends to identify the speaker as coming from north of Hemel Hempstead, or thereabouts. People from the South West and East Anglia tend to use a combination of these sounds. However, regional accents are very hard to detect in people who have had a middle/upper class upbringing. This phonological map of the UK provides more detail on the differences in pronunciation by region. British Accents 10 The United Kingdom is probably the most dialect-obsessed nation in the world. With countless accents shaped by thousands of years of history, there are few English-speaking nations with as many varieties of language in such a small space. Here is a list of the most important types of British English. While this is not a complete list by any means, it will give you an overview of the 10 British Accents .Available at http://dialectblog.com/british-accents/ accents and dialects most often discussed on this site and elsewhere. Received Pronunciation Received Pronunciation is the closest to a “standard accent” that has ever existed in the UK. Although it originally derives from London English, it is non-regional. You’ve probably heard this accent countless times in Jane Austen adaptations, Merchant Ivory films, and Oscar Wilde plays. It emerged from the 18th- and 19th-Century aristocracy, and has remained the “gold standard” ever since. Features: Non-rhoticity, meaning the r at the ends of words isn’t prounounced (mother sounds like “muhthuh”). Trap-bath split, meaning that certain a words, like bath, can’t, and dance are pronounced with the broad-a in father. (This differs from most American accents, in which these words are pronounced with the short-a in cat. The vowels tend to be a bit more conservative than other accents in Southern England, which have undergone significant vowel shifting over the past century. Speech Samples: Actress Dame Judi Dench Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher Author Christopher Hitchens жүктеу/скачать 4,66 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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