Dialects in England

First of all here's information on various dialects:

United Kingdom

British English:

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English language in England:

• Northern In the far north, local speech is akin to Scots^[2]
  • Cheshire
  • Cumbrian (Cumbria including Barrow-in-Furness)
  • Geordie (Tyneside)
  • Lancastrian (Lancashire)
  • Mackem (Sunderland)
  • Mancunian-Salfordian (Manchester & Salford)
  • Northumbrian (rural Northumberland)
  • Pitmatic (Durham and Northumberland)
  • Scouse (Liverpool)
  • Yorkshire (also known as Broad Yorkshire) (Spoken in Yorkshire)
• East Midlands
• West Midlands
  • Black Country English
  • Brummie (Birmingham)
  • Potteries (north Staffordshire)
  • Telford accent
• East Anglian
  • Norfolk dialect
  • Suffolk dialect
• Southern
  • Received Pronunciation (also known as Queen's English (or King's English) or BBC English)
  • Cockney (working-class London and surrounding areas)
  • Essex dialect
  • Estuary (Thames Estuary)
  • Kentish (Kent)
  • Multicultural London English (Inner London)
  • Sussex
• West Country
• Anglo-Cornish
• Bristolian dialec

Here is a site that allows you to translate into Geordie

Geordie	English
How man mutha man.	Please mother don't embarass me.
Ye knaa what ah mean leik.	Do you know what I mean?
Eeeh man, ahm gannin te the booza.	OK, I have had enough, I am going to the bar.
Whees i' the netty?	Who's in the lavatory?
Gan canny or we'll dunsh summick.	Be carefull or we will crash into something

This is how to speak with a British Accent...



 The Bristol Accent 







Further reading on dialects

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