Received pronunciation is the great communicator
as soon as you deviate from that and you go into London speech for example then
you lose a little bit of the communication.
cockney is based on East Anglian
Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, this is often by
actors confused with the West Country where the R's come in and then you get
Dorset and Somerset get into Cornwall. Devon's slightly different it goes into
the nose bit more like that
then you go up north to Yorkshire it's nice if you get
a word that's got one on the predominant sounds in it like yark
sheer then you cross the Pennines into Lancashire where he gets much more flexible and
fluid in the mouth
Liverpool is there too, you know, it's Scouse
it's a mixture of all kinds of sounds one of those
is Northern Irish with the rising inflections
but you don't get the rising inflections down in Dublin where
it has that poetic quality which is sometimes
thought of as being not different from Highland speech which is
also quite poetic and almost Scandinavian
and then you come down to Glasgow and into the Lowlands of Scotland where you
get glottal stops and things like that. Then you come down
the west coast and you're in Wales, North Wales
where it's breathy like that and down into South Wales where you get
much heavier and Welsh people who sometimes even sound
a bit drunk.