In your country, do accents and dialects vary more on a North/South or East/West basis?

[Suinthila]

In the UK, the difference is more North/South by far. While there is a distinct West Country accent, it is fast disappearing due to education, the media and most of all migration from London and the Southeast.

I can't understand fully your question. Varieties of the Spanish language --also called "Castilian" due to political reasons-- are over all in Spain, from North to South, from South to North, from East to West and from West to East.

Accents --understood as ways to pronounce a language-- are varying while moving along a territory where that language is spoken, from a region to another different region, from a province to another one, sometimes even from a town to another different one in the same province.

But I can't get the sense of your main question. Varying from a better standard to a worse standard accent? And if it were so, referred to the pronunciation, to the use of the grammar and syntaxis?

As said, I'd need a clarification, Tooting. Thank you.

[Lioncourt]

West/East, the main difference is the pronounce of the consonant "я", which turns into "е" in western dialects.

[Tooting Carmen]

I can't understand fully your question. Varieties of the Spanish language --also called "Castilian" due to political reasons-- are over all in Spain, from North to South, from South to North, from East to West and from West to East.

Accents --understood as ways to pronounce a language-- are varying while moving along a territory where that language is spoken, from a region to another different region, from a province to another one, sometimes even from a town to another different one in the same province.

But I can't get the sense of your main question. Varying from a better standard to a worse standard accent? And if it were so, referred to the pronunciation, to the use of the grammar and syntaxis?

As said, I'd need a clarification, Tooting. Thank you.

I mean: are the differences in pronunciation greater between Western and Eastern regions of your country, or between Northern and Southern regions of your country?

[Tooting Carmen]

Two different accents to anywhere in Britain or Ireland.

Hebrides



Northern Isles

The woman sounds almost Italian.

[Graham]

The woman sounds almost Italian.

They do sound like people who have learnt English from abroad. I love those type of accents though, same with strong sing-songy Welsh accents.

[Roy]

The woman sounds almost Italian.

Anne Lundon's accent is full of rhotic 'r's typical for Scotland, I like it.

[Graham]

Anne Lundon's accent is full of rhotic 'r's typical for Scotland, I like it.

You want a good laugh, at work an older woman in England thought I was Polish a while back. Usually it's Irish.

[Lorca]

North/South is the most distinct here in America at least.

[The Blade]

With several exceptions, it's a Northwest/Centre, including middle areas of the north/East division.

[mitalit]

North/south