07-11-2018, 23:29
To be fair to Yanks, a Welsh accent or a Scottish accent is not an English accent!! They rarely get to really speak to anyone with a very regional accent such as a scouse or goerdie one and when Brits come over here their accent tends to morph into more of a plain English accent just so they can be understood in the first place!! But its the same the opposite way around, I never realized until I lived here that the US has many regional accents as well, not as many as the UK and certainly not any as close geographically as we find. But it took me a while to be able to pick out someone from New Jersey over New York City or either of those over a Boston accent. Also the Chicago accent where I lived for 12 years in fairly unique and very different from the California accent I now live amongst, but then I lived in San Francisco for 2 years before moving to LA, and that accent is different again. The difference is their accents are not as varied as some in Britain, to go from a Cornish accent to a Geordie one, and every other one in between just does not happen here,, their accent differences are not as great as Britain sees.