23 Facts About English accents

Secondary English accents speakers tend to carry over the intonation and phonetics of their mother tongue in English accents speech.

Primary English speakers show great variability in terms of regional accents.

Examples such as Pennsylvania Dutch English accents are easily identified by key characteristics, but others are more obscure or easily confused.

English accents can differ enough to create room for misunderstandings.

English accents dialects differ greatly in their pronunciation of open vowels.

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Two main sets of English accents are spoken in the West Country, namely Cornish and West Country spoken primarily in the counties of Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Bristol, Dorset, and Wiltshire.

Highland English accents are more strongly influenced by Scottish Gaelic than other forms of Scottish English.

Manx English accents has its own distinctive accent, influenced to some extent by the Lancashire dialect and to a lesser extent by some variant of Irish English accents.

Ireland has several main groups of accents, including the accents of Ulster, with a strong influence from Scotland as well as the underlying Gaelic linguistic stratum, which in that province approaches the Gaelic of Scotland, those of Dublin and surrounding areas on the east coast where English has been spoken since the earliest period of colonisation from Britain, and the various accents of west, midlands and south.

North American English accents is a collective term for the dialects of the United States and Canada; it does not include the varieties of Caribbean English accents spoken in the West Indies.

Australian English accents is relatively homogeneous when compared to British and American English accents.

Three main varieties of Australian English accents are spoken according to linguists: Broad Australian, General Australian and Cultivated Australian.

New Zealand accent is most similar to Australian accents but is distinguished from these accents by the presence of three "clipped" vowels, slightly resembling South African English.

Scottish English accents influence is most evident in the southern regions of New Zealand, notably Dunedin.

English accents spoken in the isolated Pacific islands of Norfolk and Pitcairn shows evidence of the islands' long isolation from the world.

The accents heard in the islands when English is used are similarly influenced but in a much milder way.

The range of accents found among English-speaking Coloureds are of special interest.

Regardless of regional and ethnic differences, South African English accent is sometimes confused with Australian English by British and American English speakers.

In Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, native English accents speakers have a similar speech pattern to that of South Africa.

Zimbwabwean English accents vastly vary, with some Black Africans sounding British while others will have a much stronger accent influenced by their mother tongues, usually this distinction is brought about by where speakers grew up and the school attended.

Philippine English accents employs a rhotic accent that originated from the time when it was first introduced by the Americans during the colonization period in the attempt to replace Spanish as the dominant political language.

English accents is a foreign language with no official status, but it is commonly learnt as a second or third language.

Phonetic change in the English accents spoken at a base in Antarctica has been registered.