Is there a difference between a "dialect" and an "accent"? Yes! Most definitely. I speak Norwegian with a fairly heavy English accent. The brand of norwegian

Is there a difference between a "dialect" and an "accent"? Yes! Most definitely. I speak Norwegian with a fairly heavy English accent. The brand of norwegian I speak is a mix between "standard" bokmål, which is also kind of 'government-speak' and close to the Oslo accent, and Trøndersk, which is the local dialect where I live. The english affects the way I pronounce things. The difference in dialects is vast. Verbs are conjugated a bit differently: For some words, entire sounds are different. For example, "Hvor" (Where) is "Kor" in this region. Additionally, there are things like some pronouns being essentially a different word and different syllables dropped compared to other places. And lots and lots of differences like that. Even the melody is different depending on where folks are from. And these are within the same form of Norwegian - there are two official types. The written word is more standardized, but I have seen the local dialect in print form (I can barely read it). So yes, I can completely see a southern accent being an accent, yet some things being a dialect. There is a much bigger difference between the accent and the dialect.