Accents and Dialects of

English
Presented by: Mahnoor Fatima
Maryam Bibi
Pakiza Mushtaq
 Difference between an accent and a
dialect:
• An accent deals with pronunciation, how you
pronounce the word.
• Dialect on the other hand is when you have a
word only people in a certain area of the
country use.
• Its not a national word, it’s a local word that
may be people from other part of country
wont even know what it means.
 Received pronunciation:
• Received Pronunciation or RP is the accent of
Standard English in the United Kingdom.
• RP is defined in the Concise Oxford English
Dictionary as "the standard accent of English
as spoken in the south of England“
• Only 3% people speak RP, it enjoys high social
prestige in Britain.
 Cockney/ Estuary English
• Cockney and Estuary English are spoken in
London and south of England. Its local London
accent and spreads to other places like kent.
• Estuary is related to river to the language
spoken by people living near the river Thames.
 Examples of cockney:
• A cockney person may not use a /th/ sound they
will produce a /f/ or /v/ sound instead.
• Another aspect of cockney is the glottal stop,
instead of /t/ in the middle of a sentence they
produce a glottal stop.
• When there is an /l/ sound in a word, cockney
speakers produce a /w/ sound instead of it.
• One more aspect is the letter /h/, the cockney
speakers tend to miss of the /h/ in the start of a
word.
 Midlands:
• Area a hundred miles north of London, in the
middle of the country.
• In this accent speakers tend to produce the
words like bath and path in a very short time
like American and Canadian accent.
• Words like cup, mug and up are pronounced
as /coop/, /moog/ and /oop/.
 American
• American English (AmE) is the form of English
used in the United States. It includes all
English dialects used within the United States
of America.
• General American (GA) is considered to be
"standard" or "accent less"
Common Spelling Differences between
BrE and AmE
British English American English

Greek Spelling: Our, -se, -re Or, -ce, -er,

Latin-derived -ise/-yse/-ogue -ize; -yze; -og

Spelling:

Doubled -ll
Consonants:
Dropped “e”
 Vocabulary
American & British English sometimes have
different words for the same things --
British American
Flat Apartment
Row Argument
Pram Carriage/coach
Chips Fries
Tin Can
Biscuit Cookie
Lift Elevator
 Grammar
• Morphology
 American -- "-ed"
• British -- "-t"
• i.e. learned/learnt, dreamed/dreamt
 Tenses
 British English rarely use “gotten;” instead, “got”
• is much more common.
 Past participles often vary:
• i.e. saw – American: sawed; British: sawn
• Auxiliaries
 British English often uses “shall” and “shan’t”
• American English uses “will” and “won’t”
 Pronunciation Differences
British English American English

• [o] in spot • [a:] in spot

• [a:] in fast • [ae] in fast
• [t’] in better • [d] in better
• [r] – sometimes silent • [r] pronounced
• [ɪ] in privacy everywhere
• [aɪ] in privacy
 SCOTTISH
Scottish English as it is spoken in the country of
Scotland.
FEATURES:
• Glottal stopping of the phoneme /t/ when in
between vowels (similar to Cockney accent).
• Monopthongal pronunciations of the /eɪ/ and
/əʊ/ diphthongs, so that the word “face” is
pronounced as [fe:s] and “goat” is pronounced
as [go:t].
 IRISH
Ireland is a country close to the United kingdom.
• VOCABULARY
• “Amn’t” used as a contraction of ``am not´´
can be used in questions tags; they also use
double negative (``I'm not late, amn't not
late?
• “Arra” is used as an interjection when
something bad happened. ``Arra, tis not the
end of the world´´(Well! ´s not the end of the
world)
• Irish people say: - Hiya (hello) - “tis” instead
of “it´s”.
 PRONUNCIATION
• The "u" may appear pronounced as / ʊ /.
• They speak softer than the English .
• They don’t pronounce the diphthongs, as in
boat /boːt/.
• When they say the `` t ´´ they pronounce `` s ´´
or `` sh ´´, for example “it isn´t” they say
/ˈɪznts/
 Australian English
• Australian English is predominantly British
English, and especially from the London area.
• The vowels reflect a strong “Cockney”
influence.
• For Example:
The long a (/ei/) tends towards a long i (/ai/),
so pay sounds like pie to an American ear.
The long i (/ai/), in turn, tends towards oi, so
cry sounds like croy.
• Another characteristic of Australian English is
abbreviated words, often ending in -y, -ie, or –
o.
• For Example:
chewie -- chewing gum
chockie -- chocoloate
sammie -- sandwich
sickie -- sick day
smoko -- cigarette break
sunnies -- sunglasses
lippie -- lipstick
There is three things, must be find
in every accent :
Clarity
Clarity is very important thing, when we
speak and play a vital (fundamental) role
to grape the things.
Peace
Don’t to speak very quickly.
Speak slowly for understand the things.
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• Volume
Some time people speak very quietly and
you need to ask speak more loudly, means
pronouns
the words in normal range.
Don’t be shy about making mistake just
convey your thoughts and speak without
any hesitation.