Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk>: > British accent, Christmas is early this year so ho, ho, ho. Nobody in > this country ever guesses where I was born and bred, they all think > I'm from the South West or the West Country. Irish, Scottish, Welsh, > English alone are different. Most foreigners wouldn't have a dog's > chance in hell of understanding a Geordie or a Glaswegian. Move 50 > miles and you can hear a completely different accent. British accent > indeed.
The accents on the British isles are indeed much more diverse than in the colonies. They can also be very hard to understand, sometimes for native English-speakers as well. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
