the accents Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
Q
RP
A
closest to standard english
2
Q
Cockney
A
- raised vocal sounds like ‘trap’ and ‘cat’
- glottal stops
3
Q
west country
A
-letter ‘r’ pronounced as a vowel
4
Q
geordie
A
-dipthong on ‘about’ pronounced ‘oot’ in strong accents
5
Q
midlands
A
syllables similar to Australian
6
Q
northern england
A
- foot-stut merger
- e.g machester
7
Q
welsh english
A
- non-rhetoric
- syllables evenly stressed
8
Q
Scottish englush
A
- rhotic
- glottal stops
9
Q
british black englush
A
- large groups of people from Carribean migrated to Britain after WW2
- settled in citiies
