region

• accent - how you say something
• dialect - the words you use
• matched guise - an experiment where one speaker in a range of different accents in order for people to pass a judgement about an accent
• shibboleth - a collection of features based on how language is used in accent
• g-dropping - the words final /g/ sound gets dropped
• h-dropping - the words final /h/ sound gets dropped
• yod-coalesence - the pronunciation of the /j/ sound in words like Tuesday
• received pronunciation - an accent which is typically described as posh, it uses the prestigious pronunciation
• brummie - speakers who have a Birmingham accent
• glottal stop - the missing out of the /t/ sound in words
• th-fronting - pronouncing the /th/ sound in words as /f/
• rhotic accent - pronounces the /r/ sound after words like car
• kerswill - through a process called dialect levelling, accents and dialects are becoming more and more similar
• mugglestone - the number of rp speakers is decreasing
• Giles and Powesland - the same lecturer delivered two identical lectures to two groups using rp and the brummie accent. they found that the brummie speaker was rated as less intelligent and was rated less favourably overall
• harbridge - survey of 4000 people to find the funniest accent. brummie was the most funny then liverpoolian and rp was the least funny
• trudgill - the archaic forms of the second person pronouns thee and thou are still being used in yorkshire
• dent - accents are like spoking birth marks