Sunday, 8 November 2015

Accent and dialect:

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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