Discussion UsefulNotes / BritishAccents

For anyone curious to hear specific examples of UK accents including posh English, Cockney and Estuary English, there are examples here: https://jadejoddle.com/downloads/Accent-Pack.pdf

The main section of this article is much to verbose and impenentrable, even by non-laconic page standards. This needs a rewrite.

The dialect list needs a bit of reformatting too.

Where would Karen Gillan go? She's from Inverness, which is in the central Highlands, so she wouldn't go under northeastern Scotland or the west coast. But the section for the west coast mentions that that accent sounds almost Irish, which is certainly true of Karen's accent.

What kind of accent does Sergeant Blob from The Dreamstone have? I suspect it's the same accent as the hares from Redwall, but I can't find what their accent is called either.

If anyone is familiar with Cerebus the Aardvark, an entry talking about the depiction of the accents of Princes Mick and Keef and the Starkey brothers needs to be here.

At the time of writing, the Xenoblade Chronicles entry includes the following: "Notably, most of them speak with working-class accents (especially Reyn), whereas the standard 'received pronunciation' does not appear to exist."

I don't think this is accurate. To my (British) ears, Shulk and Sharla are both on the RP end of the London-RP continuum; Dunban has the RP accent typical of a military officer; and Melia's is cut-glass upper-class RP, as lampshaded by Reyn and Sharla during a discussion.

Two more examples I think should be added. Megabyte, from Reboot, see here and Aran Ryan. I'd add them myself but I'm honestly not sure exactly what kind of accents they are in the first place and don't want to look the fool.

For video games, how about mentioning Call of Duty 4: many okay British accents, but lots of Americanisms in the accents, like "Dee-pot" instead of "Dep-ot", "Miss-le" instead of "Miss-ile" and "Cell phone" instead of "Mobile".

I'm surprised the various incarnations of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" aren't at least mentioned here (the play, My Fair Lady), since Professor Higgins is a professor of phonetics and "can place any man within six miles ... within two miles in London. Sometimes within two streets."