For me the Orcadian accent trumps everything else in the UK.
Used to work with a French guy who had studied in Glasgow, when we was daan saarth (surrey) together people thought he was a weegie soap dodger just like me...
Got good friend whose Italian and when she starts swearing you think you were in deepest darkest Dundee!
I believe the Liverpool accent to be quite distinct in that it bears no relation to those surrounding it; geographically speaking.
Also I find the borders accent the strangest as it sounds like English people who can roll their "r's".
Don't get me started on the "Kelvinside" accent though, my mates mum used it all time fn annoying.
molgrips, which Valley are you in? Im Ogmore based and being from England my other half is a local valley girl tells me I always sound dead posh whenever we are out with a group of her freinds
Yes - our accent has changed loads since the 1700s don't forget. We've actually been mangling our own vowels, and they have (supposedly) mangled them less.
Yes, but English probably only established in NZ in the 19th century with the early colonists...I doubt they had their own accent until fairly recently.
Anyway, the effect of the accent is reduce the number of available vowels: tin/ ten and here/ hare for example.
I believe the Liverpool accent to be quite distinct in that it bears no relation to those surrounding it; geographically speaking.
I think you can hear similarities in places like Chester and the north Welsh borders.
For the footy fans - remember Steve McLaren's Dutch accent?
