BBC - Voices - Language Lab

There's an "l" at the end of "Bristol". But did you know that some Bristol speakers put an "l" after words like "area", making this word sound just like "aerial"?

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Bradford has a pretty typical "North of England" accent. You have a short-sounding "bath" in Bradford, and if you "cut" your "foot", at least those words rhyme.

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Regional accents can be more complicated than standard accents. In Swansea, many people don't pronounce "made" and "maid", or "nose" and "knows" the same way. Their accent has these extra contrasts.

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Speaking "Scottish English" isn't the same as speaking "Scots". Scots can claim to be a different language. In Edinburgh they usually say "house" not "hoos". But you"ll hear plenty of rolled "R"s, even in "cuRl" and "squiRm".

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The written letter "s" doesn't always sound like an "s". What sounds do you use for the two "s" letters when you say "houses"? In Bangor, people usually do use the "s" sound in each case. SurpriSing.

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Liverpudlians, or "Scousers", often pronounce the "ck" in "chicken" like the sound at the end of the Scottish word "loch". And "great" sometimes sounds as if it has added an s at the end.