British Accents

I was working in a Hotel with a Scottish Chef, this summer, and his accent was extremely difficult for my

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Do people in the UK speak that way? Aaaaaaargh! There's a lot of things I can't understand, sometimes it sounds like he's no

I'm afraid that yes, most people will have a regional accent of one type or another. For a small country we have a lot of different accents. And no, we can't always understand each other either!

Which is why I always tell those who are learning English not to worry about having their 'native' accent. We are used to all sorts...

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not sure...possibly wan ker.

I hope he wasn't saying it to you.

what is the meaning of "wan ker"?

It's a rude name to call someone...it's only one word really but I had to split it in two otherwise the censor function on this site would have blanked it out. Go and google it as one word and you'll get the idea.

On the other hand, it's not always meant that offensively...some people just use words like this a lot with their friends...

I do like the British accent which is being used on BBC kind of channels... What do you call that exactly?

Cheers,,

Probably RP, but they also use a lot of people with regional accents too.

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00i dont understand why some British people speak the words such as 'chAracter', 'cAlendar', 'Alan', gAry', etc with the sound /a:/ whereas some will say these words with 00/æ/. Which way is the correct one? 02br
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00I would say those words with the cat-trap vowel i.e. /æ/. There could be accents where the bath-path vowel, /a:/, is used, though. Let's see if somebody else will be able to throw some more light on this.02br
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