Accents and Dialects

What Americans call pants, the British would call trousers.

Donkey in dalamatian(Croatian dialect)

They typically call it 'Fall', ie, the season when leaves fall.

In the Scots dialect, this means, "a random ear of corn in a shock."

Because Americans programmed the computers. The british programmers didn't mind copy-and-pasting the program for british computers.

I believe he started off with a gang in Bristol, so I'd take it that he was from there. However I think it is unknown as to where he was born.

I was curious about this as well, as my daughter is planning on moving with her fiance' to China, and I noted a very different quality to the speech in the film, than in other Chinese language films. What little I have been able to research would indicate that it is a slightly accented Mandarin, rather than Cantonese. To my ear the Mandarin (even if it was purely classical Mandarin in Daggers) was softer and more melodic than what I have heard of Cantonese (if that is the other most broadly spoken dialect). Hope that helped.

If you mean the difference between street English, and Proper English, then the differences are vast.
I was taught what Americans call "Oxford English". I learned the language of my new home from a teacher who was, indeed from England. I developed the speech patterns, and even the accent from her. I consider the English I was taught to be proper, or "smart" English. I don't use colloquialisms (slang) when I speak in a formal situation, and I don't say things like "ain't, or y'all" (Even though I am currently living in Texas). Study your own grammar, and learn proper speech and see where the difference is for you.

The answer to this question depends on the context. Does "can" refer to a metallic cylinder, the ability to do, a water closet, a prison?

To identify a foreign accent, listen for different pronunciation patterns, intonation, or speech rhythm than what is typical of the local language or dialect. Pay attention to distinct sounds, word stress, and vowel or consonant alterations. Differences in grammar or vocabulary usage may also indicate a foreign accent.

If you mean an underground railroad, the usual word in the U. S. is "subway." (Not to be confused with subway in England, which is an "underpass" in the U. S.)

Up to the death of Queen Elizabeth the First, England and Scotland had different monarchs. After the death of Queen Elizabeth the First, who didn't leave any heir, the next in line to the English throne was King James the VI of Scotland. He became King James the First of England and is still often refered to as James the First and Sixth. His descendants were also rightfully the monarchs of both England and Scotland. The two kingdoms were eventually unified under the name of Britain. Britain also includes Wales, which had been under English rule since the time of King Edward the First.

Geordie - Newcastle (Don't say someone from Sunderland sounds like a Geordie, they'll rip your head off). Cockney - London and its surrounding Boroughs and Scouse is primarily spoken by people from Liverpool. You'll find that as you go in between the areas with the different dialects they vary. So for example, people who live in-between Newcastle and York will have a mixture of the two, getting stronger the closer to the city you get. Hope this helps

Try "Gawk"

They are called traffic lights or traffic signals.

--------------------------------------------------------

*** 2nd Answerer Says: Some parts of the country call them stoplights (as opposed to go-lights or caution-lights) and there is a variation called "blinking lights". "Blinking lights can be blinking red in all four directions to designate a four-way stop or full-stop in two directions & cautionary slow-down (blinking yellow) the other two directions.

The most widely understood English dialect

There, they're, and their

Serpent

One of the key differences between RP (British English) and GA (American English) in terms of phonology are:

-In some cases, the stress pattern is different, resulting in the aluminum-aluminium division

- In GA, there is y-deletion in the vowel yuw (in some cases), as in the word "tube".

- Optimality Theory provides explanations for phonetic variations such as the two pronunciations of "hot"

- In terms of phonetics, RP tends to have higher, rounder vowels than GA.

It's Basuto

Accents are caused by the influence of a mother language on an acquired language. So whether I'm learning Spanish, French, Italian..., I'd have an American accent when trying to speak any language other than English. If you've ever heard a native Spanish, French or Italian or other speaker trying to speak English, you've no doubt heard their accent. Did you mean dialect? Dialect is a regional way of speaking one's language. Southerners can usually be readily spotted in a group of non-Southerners for example. As to how many there are, it depends on how specific you want to be. Yankees speak differently from Southerners, but New Yorkers speak differently than other Yankees. Within New York there are several broad regionalisms (such as N of Syracuse, around Rochester, around Albany). Yet you can get more specific still. NYC has at least the different dialects of the 5 borroughs. Many who live within those borroughs can often pidgeon-hole people to within a few blocks of where they live by the way they speak. And we haven't even gotten to the issue of idiolects...

A scouser is someone who is from Liverpool. They speak scouse and have a stew called scouse. :D

For some people, there is no such thing as neutral accent. They feel that speaking without accent is impossible. For some people, newsreaders English is neutral english. They feel that news anchors speak English in way everyone can understand provided their regional and cultural backround is almost hidden. Ref: neutralaccent.com

Goose flesh or goose pimples