Appendix 1: selected languages and dialects on the british isles

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APPENDIX 2: REGIONS AND DIALECTS OF ENGLAND

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Appendix 3: varieties of english in england

• Southern English

  • Estuary English

  • Cockney (London)

• East Anglian English

  • Norfolk dialect (Broad Norfolk)

• Suffolk dialect

• West Country English

• East Midlands English

• West Midlands English

  • Black Country (Yam Yam)

  • Brummie (spoken in Birmingham)

  • Potteries (North Staffordshire)

  • Herefordshire

  • Warwickshire

  • Worcestershire

• Northern English

  • Geordie ( Tyneside)

  • Mackem ( Sunderland)

  • Pitmatic (spoken in the Northumberland coalfield)

  • Cumbrian

  • Tyke (Yorkshire). Often subdivided into North, West and East Ridings.

  • Lancashire. (The accent of Manchester is known as Mancunian )

  • Scouse (spoken in Liverpool and Merseyside)

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