Accents & Dialects Can be ard to git?

I've been around the UK quite a lot, and can understand the accents & dialects of most of the inhabitants.

For me, the hardest to "get" have been from the West Country, then the Highlands and then Northern Ireland.

It must be REALLY difficult, though, for some visitors from abroad.

Imagine how they must struggle, for example, if the arrive in Liverpool and drive directly east across to the Yorkshire Coast?

There must be, about, 10 different strong accents on that route.

I bet many of them don't even come here because of that?

Still, I guess it's the same in other countries.

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Thee casn't tell I young 'un!

I met someone from Burnley and couldn't understand a word he said!
I don't watch Lorraine Kelly because I don't understand her either!

Of courze we'em speakin' prapper in Zummerzet s'know.

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I wasn't born in Devon, only came here when I was grown up, but I do tend to write 'back along' instead of then, probably the only phrase I did pick up. Never was any good at accents, guess mine is still Middlesex.

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Ey up lad, it thee comes to yaarkshere daint worry, we’ll Sort summat out, tha nos ,

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I'm from Yorkshire - I don't have an accent.



The thing with Northern accents is that all Southerners think they are the same. They aren't. A Yorkie can tell a Lankie accent straight away and vice versa.

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Someone living in Salford would have problems with the accent 5 miles further up, near Bolton! (puffing up t'brew = walking up the hill!)

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Mrs d00d, a bleedin foreigner, enjoyed Last Tango in Halifax, not just the accent but the social niceties too.

complete pillock, dickhead .... two she won't let go of, and I'm the one on the receiving end.

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I remember a taxi journey from Bearsden to central Glasgow.
The cabbie ( as they do ) started a bit of chit chat. I couldn't understand a bloody word he was saying, it worked both ways...I think we both gave up on any jovial banter.

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I have always thought it strange travelling up the M1 - same road but with different accents at the services.