It's a tiny ass island yet whenever a British person hears another British person they'll be like "Oi guvenor! I know exactly where in Merry-ol-England they are from! Clearly they're from Bovinshire-upon-Weavilton!" And Bovinshire-upon-Weavilton is a town like 10 minutes away from where they live.

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[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The US is probably the outlier here with too few regional accents given the vast land mass. I would attribute it to the population growing alongside the successive innovations of rail, radio and television so that regional dialects blended into each other.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 4 points 18 hours ago

media tends to lump "the south" into a single, monolithic accent that always seems to be some affected-as-hell Texas twang (where they pronounce "onion" like it has a "g" in it), but IRL there is a lot of variability between low country, piedmont, Mississippi delta, and southern Appalachian.

that doesn't even get into who uses what idioms.

mass media has a way of flattening regional differences.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

And is probably why the east coast has more accent variation in a smaller area. New York even has accents that vary from borough to borough I am told!

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Australia is worse some say we have 3 which isn't true, but it's certainly less than the USA.