Quirky internet insight into British dialects

[Ian Sutton]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39223758

It looks like his insights will be on youtube.

 

[Pauline]

I am an expat American (originally Canadian) living in England for 7 years and I cannot recognise regional accents! I can tell if someone is Scottish, Irish or Northern Irish, and I think I can spot Welsh, but that is it.

 

[PatrickLondon]

This seems like a good opportunity to revive some interest in a TV programme that fascinated me when I first saw it (someone seems to have recorded the late-night re-run with sign language overlay) - all about a collection of British accents recorded by British prisoners of war in Germany during WW1: