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I don’t know enough about the UK to give you an educated answer. It’s my impression that variations are mostly in the accent and vocabulary, not the actual conj

I don’t know enough about the UK to give you an educated answer. It’s my impression that variations are mostly in the accent and vocabulary, not the actual conjugation of verbs like “to be.” Is that correct? The conflict would be if Kerry dialect speakers started insisting that the BBC write articles in their dialect and not in the society-wide one.

rsynnott 5y ago
> It’s my impression that variations are mostly in the accent and vocabulary, not the actual conjugation of verbs like “to be.” Is that correct? No, not necessarily. Some examples here: https://www.bl.uk/british-accents-and-dialects/articles/grammatical-variation-across-the-uk# https://www.bl.uk/british-accents-and-dialects/articles/gram... > The conflict would be if Kerry dialect speakers started insisting that the BBC write articles in their dialect and not in the society-wide one. Kerry's in Ireland, not the UK. However, the BBC has had newsreaders with regional dialects for a while (since WW2!: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-north-england-voice-overturned-bbc-tradition-180967208/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-north-england-... ) In terms of written news, the BBC has news in West African Pidgin (which is on the cusp between being a dialect and a language; it's comprehensible to English speakers): https://www.bbc.com/pidgin https://www.bbc.com/pidgin . They also have some content in Scottish English (a dialect) and in Ulster Scots (generally considered a separate language, but largely comprehensible to English speakers).