People with a Brummie accent would say the word 'hello' as heh-LOUW instead of HEH-low, although there are lots of variations of the accent across the city (it's the third-largest city in England).
Cockney was found to be the most annoying accent in Britain.
RP: a social accent of English
RP is an accent, not a dialect, since all RP speakers speak Standard English.
A Cockney accent is very informal, and often leaves off the “g” in words that end with “ing.” For instance, "starting" becomes "startin'" and "laughing" becomes "laughin'." Use Cockney substitutions. To speak with a Cockney accent, occasionally substitute grammatically-incorrect words for grammatically-correct words.
Cockney might thus have spread around the world, but research published in 2011 found that in east London, young people increasingly speak multicultural London English, a different dialect, which includes elements of both cockney and other languages and English dialects from around the world.
Anyone who has heard the Queen's speeches will recognise her distinctive British accent. This is RP – 'Received Pronunciation'.
People from Newcastle speak a dialect called Geordie, which is one of the strongest and most distinctive accents in England.
The British Isles is made up many, many different accents and dialects – more than 37 dialects at the last count. A dialect is a variety of a language that differs from the standard language, in this case RP. Dialects can vary regionally – depending on where in the country a person is from, as well as socially.
Cockney, dialect of the English language traditionally spoken by working-class Londoners. Cockney is also often used to refer to anyone from London—in particular, from its East End.
Received Pronunciation (RP) is the proper term to describe the regionally neutral accent used by many middle-class speakers in the UK, particularly in England. It is widely used as a reference point in dictionaries and as a model for teaching English as a foreign language.
THE Brummie accent is Britain's most comical, research has found. A team of experts spent two months studying how regional accents influence how funny a person is deemed to be. Received Pronunciation (RP) picked up the lowest score, amusing just 1.1%.
Probably RP and Cockney. I know that sounds very weird because RP and Cockney are viewed as so different, but Broad Australian English has dominant Cockney features while Cultivated and General are almost on a spectrum between Broad and RP. It's different from Cockney too though in important ways.
Today, this means that there are three types of Australian accent. Some people speak with a “general” accent, which is more or less the way it has been for centuries. Other people speak with an accent that is closer to RP English. The third group of people have a “broad” Australian accent.
Cockney – East London
With its East End roots, Cockney is one of the most distinctive and easily placed accents in the UK.
With Manchester winning the crown, the Northern Irish accent took the runner-up spot seeing actors Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt having the second-best dialect. The third place might surprise some, with the unique Liverpool accent claiming the spot seeing the voice of Stephen Graham being just one scouser named.
1. Cockney. The cockney accent comes from South London and is one of the most well-known.
Cockney is an accent and dialect of the English language, mainly spoken in London and its environs, particularly by working-class and lower middle-class Londoners. The term Cockney is also used as a demonym for a person from the East End, or born within earshot of Bow Bells.
a thick accent: a heavy, strong regional pronunciation, way of speaking noun.
It comes as no surprise then that many people rank the West Country accent as the most challenging English dialect to understand due to its heavy drawl and slurred syllable endings. The West Country accent originates from the region of Southwestern England, bordered by Wales and the Bristol Channel.
Though we see him way more often than we hear him, William is actually a pretty powerful speaker, known for using a more relaxed, modern form of received pronunciation, or RP, which is the posh English accent that older royals use.