Accents in the UK

Do you know what the difference between accent and dialect is?

Have you ever travelled across the UK and have found it difficult to understand certain people from a specific county, region or area?

If your answer is yes, it was probably because you were not used to their accent.

In the link below, you will be able to learn the difference between accent and dialect, and to explore to a range of the UK's dialects and accents by clicking on a map:

https://www.bl.uk/british-accents-and-dialects/articles/regional-voices-an-introduction-to-language-variation-across-the-uk#