Accent: Accent is the distinctive way in which a person from different places speak. These accents make people stand out to people from different places. It is the different ways in which people from different places speak.
Dialect: This is a form or type of language that is found peculiar to a specific type of place or region as to where the person that has this type of language is from.
Regions and how they speak differently to the standard English:
Newcastle:
- 'Aye' instead of yes
- 'Lass' referring to a girl
- 'Mam' and not mother or mum
- 'Naught' in place of nothing
Liverpool:
- 'Bevvy' over beer
- 'Butty' instead of sandwich
- 'Abar' in place of about
- 'Raar' and not right
Manchester:
- 'Dead' instead of extremely
- 'Mint' over great
- 'Angin' in place of disgusting
- 'Sound' good or great
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