How many different accents are there in the UK?

40 different dialects
In reality, there are almost 40 different dialects in the UK that sound totally different from each other, and in many cases use different spellings and word structure. In fact, there’s pretty much one accent per county.

What is the nicest British accent?

Yorkshire has been crowned as the most trustworthy accent in the UK, with a new study finding it to be ‘intelligent’ and ‘calming’. The research, which was commissioned by OnBuy.com, asked 2,221 people to listen to 15 British accents and say which they would be more likely to trust in job interviews.

What is the hardest UK accent?

Which UK accents are harder to transcribe than others? This is our list of the top ten areas of difficult regional UK accents:

Scouse (Merseyside)
Black Country (Wolverhampton, Dudley and Walsall areas)
West and South Yorkshire.
Leicestershire.
Cockney (Greater London)
Essex.
Somerset.
Brummie (Birmingham)

Where do posh British accents come from?

There is one notable absentee from this list – colloquially termed ‘posh’. Technically this accent is known as ‘Upper Received Pronunciation’ and is widely associated with the English aristocracy and educational institutions such as Eton and Oxford.

Are there different British accents?

Types of British Accents

Cockney. This is one of the UK’s most famous dialects, and it goes hand in hand with London.
Estuary English. Here’s another dialect that is London-based.
Yorkshire.
Northern Irish.
Scottish.
Brummie.
Scouse.
Geordie.

What is the ugliest accent in the UK?

The ‘Brummie’ accent is considered to be the ugliest accent in the British Isles, according to a new poll from YouGov. The UK and Ireland has a massive range of accents for such small islands – we have the same amount of dialects as the whole of North America- including Canada, Bermuda and Native American dialects.

Which is the easiest British accent to learn?

But, there’re many differences between American and Canadian accents. For the entire world, American accent is most universal. British, Scottish, Irish and Australian accents are pretty unfamiliar with all ears of the people around the globe. Irish English is the easiest to understand.