Many people speak of a āBritish Accentā however the island of Great Britain especially seems like it has hundreds of thousands of accents with every new village having its own slightly different accent, and the thickness of their accents depending on their class and how wealthy or poor they areā¦ On the island of Britain (the largest of the British isles) there are actually 3 distinct countries (England, Scotland and Wales) each with their own native languages and within the English language, their own accents too.Iām from a place called Cumbria where we have 2 major accents being āWest Cumbrianā and the āCarlisle accentā with West Cumbria being more rural and Carlisle being the main city in Cumbriaā¦ Cumbria is mountainous and known as āThe Lake Districtā and 600-700 years ago we had our own extinct language known as āCwmbricā or āCumbricā which is very similar to or would have been an accent of the Welsh language, even the names of our homeland are similar with Wales being known as Cymbru and Cumbria, both meaning āThe homelandā or something similar in our languages. Some examples of the Cumbrian dialect and accent which have survived would be the counting system, 1=Yan 2=tyan 3=tethera 4=methera 5=pipOr Marra = mate, Aye=yes, Gan=Going, Aas=I Etc. etc.
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