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Regional dialect Introduction Regional dialect is the different ways people speak the same language. It can vary in many ways; there are a lot of different ways. In this report I will explain how they vary from culture to culture, what the similarities and differences are throughout the English speaking areas of the world. I will be looking at two main areas foreign dialect and British dialect. Also English can be spelt different by the different people in the world in some countries it may even be spelt using a different alphabet. Most of the countries that speak with a different accent speak like that because of the British Empire, during the late eighteenth and nineteenth century and when England conquered different parts of wales and Scotland. It is also influenced by the education rate in certain areas and how their ancestors lived. People can’t always understand dialect from other regions due to the accent.

Contents 1.	The Irish, Welsh and Scottish dialect 2.	The dialect in north America

The Irish Welsh and Scottish dialect The Welsh and the Scottish are obviously not originally English. We know this because of their accents. They have their own languages as well and see themselves as individual countries not just provinces of the United Kingdom. The Welsh are stereotypically known as rough tough rugby types. This is because of their accent. The accent doesn’t flow as well as the original English this is because it has the Gaelic accent instead of a more French well-spoken language. There are two types of welsh accent, Cardiff welsh and original welsh. The Cardiff welsh is much more flowing and is a lot closer to English. It has a lot higher pitch. This is also spoken on the boarders of Britain like in Herefordshire and other cities near the border of south east wales. The Welsh dialect originates from the language because of when the English took the country in 1277. There were many attempts to take back the country but none succeeded. The Welsh language is however a Celtic language and originates from the countries that make up Britain. It dates as far back as the late Bronze Age. After the roman invasion England adopted many new Latin words. However the welsh were left with their original Celtic routes and so the languages grew. The Scottish however have a much more Germanic language than the Welsh because they were not affected by the English until a lot later than welsh were and consider themselves independent in the modern day. This is because the scots only lost their independence in 1603 where they were put under the rule of the English king James I. He was the first to unite the three countries to create Great Britain, therefore creating the three main dialect of the island. In Scotland unlike wales there is only one widely spoken dialect standard Scottish English. Once again the country originally had its own language and it is because of the English invasion that is now has a English speaking country. However they don’t have a language other than English that is still widely spoken throughout the country. As you go further north the pronunciation of the language changes. For example words like bath are no longer pronounced “b-aaaa-th” but “b-a-th” instead. This is because the romans and the Normans never venture very far north so as you get further north you go the more Celtic pronunciation you will hear. Some people believe that the Scottish dialect could be another language; however it is currently still just a dialect. Ireland was never reached by the Roman Empire so the language stayed Gaelic as it originally was. In fact Irish is still spoken quite widely in the country. The language was barely changed after the British invasion during the twelfth century. In fact a lot of the Gaelic language still exists mixed in with the English.. The welsh and Scottish dialects are very similar and have very close routes but are on different parts of the U.K, they were both created the same way, when England invaded them and their language changed. North American dialect Canada and the U.S.A have very similar accents and is the most widely-spoken language in both of the countries. The accents are very similar as well because the British took the U.S.A and then realised that the French province of Canada was just to the north so they invaded. The American dialect is based on simplicity and has many features that change just to make the language easier to spell. For example aeroplane becomes airplane and colour becomes colour. The standard American accent is the same in the whole but the main difference is that the speech is rhotic unlike the British which is non-rhotic. Oddly enough the accent gets stronger as you go further away from the west and as you go south the closer to Spanish the dialect gets. There are even a few states that speak Spanish these are the Spanish states.in central U.S.A you get the strongest accents because very little has changed so the accent just gets even stronger without much influence. America adopted English from an invasion in the seventeenth century. At the time it was only inhabited by native Indians. So the British could easily take over the land and claim it as their own. The French did the same further north and it wasn’t until 1777 that Britain realised that they were losing their American colonies so they attacked the French and invaded Canada to keep part of their empire in that continent. Soon after the American civil war happened so the British left but North America still has two thirds of the world’s English speakers. The Canadians have a very similar accent except it is much closer to French than American English because it used to be a French province. Canada and U.S.A are both still very close to the British because of their history. Their dialects are very similar because Britain invaded using U.S soldiers.

The counties dialect Different counties have different dialects throughout Britain dialects change when you have different counties each part of the country has different reasons for their dialect. The different areas that I will be focusing on are the west, the east and the north. The west has a very particular accent and is extremely noticeable because of its close Germanic routes you can often see them. For example   Du bist becomes du bust which then became thee bist in Somerset and is then you are. This change has happened over the past three hundred to four hundred years. Wessex used to be a Anglo-Saxon country and had decided to keep its language until the nineteenth century when they started to catch up with the language but the Germanic accent didn’t change. Its highly likely that the