It's a tiny ass island yet whenever a British person hears another British person they'll be like "Oi guvenor! I know exactly where in Merry-ol-England they are from! Clearly they're from Bovinshire-upon-Weavilton!" And Bovinshire-upon-Weavilton is a town like 10 minutes away from where they live.

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[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

This is normal. In fact there used to be more divergent dialects. Oh and americans speak like 17th century brits. The modern english accent is newer than the american one.

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The US is probably the outlier here with too few regional accents given the vast land mass. I would attribute it to the population growing alongside the successive innovations of rail, radio and television so that regional dialects blended into each other.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

And is probably why the east coast has more accent variation in a smaller area. New York even has accents that vary from borough to borough I am told!

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Australia is worse some say we have 3 which isn't true, but it's certainly less than the USA.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

media tends to lump "the south" into a single, monolithic accent that always seems to be some affected-as-hell Texas twang (where they pronounce "onion" like it has a "g" in it), but IRL there is a lot of variability between low country, piedmont, Mississippi delta, and southern Appalachian.

that doesn't even get into who uses what idioms.

mass media has a way of flattening regional differences.

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