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When I was growing up it was possible to tell by accent whether someone came from an inland farm or from one of the fishing villages along the coast - even thou
by arethuza 7y ago
When I was growing up it was possible to tell by accent whether someone came from an inland farm or from one of the fishing villages along the coast - even though the farms might only be 1km or so from the villages.
- stevekemp 7y agoThe UK is like that as a whole, the accents and dialect can vary enormously in very short distances. Even simple things like what people call rolls of bread can place people pretty accurately: https://i.imgur.com/mwoYYYQ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/mwoYYYQ.jpg I call a small roll of bread a "bread-cake" because that's what my mom called it. My dad would call it a "morning roll". Now I'm an adult I can, and do, alternate between the two terms but I have a preference for my mother's term. Some words I take my mother's terms and some my dad's. So I guess there's a blending from Scotland and Yorkshire. Now raising a bilingual child who is 50% Finnish who knows how he'll talk, and what he'll call things!