How many vowel sounds are there in the English language, including dipthongs, without Googling?
No need to list them, just how many…

in which dialect/regional accent ?

32 from memory?

in which dialect/regional accent ?

English. 🙄

oops. 20. I’m s’posed to know this stuff 😳

Not googled, from the back of New English File Intermediate 😉

English. 🙄

Good point, there is after all only one way of speaking English

Correctly, yes.

in which dialect/regional accent ?

Some regions manage with fewer than others – as illustrated by the St Helens Hardware Shop Joke:

An man walks into a St Helens hardware shop and asks for some turps, the shop assistant replies

“Audio Turps or Video Turps?”

wtf do you mean correctly and what would a welsh spaniard know about this anyway?

maccruiskeen – my point beautifully illustrated

So that’s the schwa sorted…

find a dictionary definition of the brummie i in pint

or the black country i in pint 😆

trailmonkey – /??/

not quite bob, we don’t say point for pint. close but no cigar and you’ll never find anything for the black country sound. i can’t even type it.

So we’re up to 22 then due to the Yam yams, no?
Junkyard… it’s Welsh Spaniard… Standards, like Liverpool, slipped. 😉

it’s Welsh Spaniard

It’s a wankiard I reckon.

Fair do’s. I don’t even know where the Black Country is!

😐

It’s in Birmingham Bob.

Dip Thong?

It’s in Birmingham Bob.

No it’s not.

In Birmingham! Ignorant expletive deleted.

That is a map of Birmingham’s western suburbs…

Is Coventry one of Birmingham’s southern suburbs?

What on earth have you spilt on that map? Frankly it looks unhygienic.

Birmingham is a very young city, until quite recently it was a village near the Black Country

You can take the boy out of the (black) country but you can’t take the (black) country out of the boy.

Do you include black country vowel sounds Don. And are there phonetic symbols for the vowels in “Arr ahh kid”?

edukator has it

its a whole other language.

but the beer and the orange chips are phenomenal

aha gotcha

Orange chips, that takes me back

It’s so long since I been to the Black Country that I can’t remember the accents/sounds. But this is kind of the point that the standard number of vowel sounds is listed as somewhere between 19 and 21, and here we are with 2 Black Country sounds. I’m sure that someone would argue that Bob is correct with the pronunciation of ‘pint’ and others that he is wrong, I would err on the side of him being correct, but as I said it’s been a long time.
Arr = the ‘a’ in Car, no? The rest I’d need to listen to Jasper Carrott to get the accent. 😉

he’s a brummie 😐

its an owel con o wurms ay it ?

its an owel con o wurms ay it ?

Nail on the head, I had a customer in Lye and I swear to this day I’m not 100% sure what his name was.