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Thanks. This is interesting. I've long been a devotee of Brit books,
films, and TV, and can sort out a fair number of the stronger accents.
Not like Professor Higgens, but more in the line of north, south, and
west. And BBC. :-) I think US media *does* present a kind of
LA-generic picture. (Los Angeles, not Louisiana) Strong regional
accents are usually relegated to 'character' parts. But there *are*
distinctly regional accents here, too. Various southern ones can be
quite pronounced. The Maine 'down-easter' is distinctive, as is the
Scandinavian influence in the upper (northern) midwest. Etc., etc.

Having spent some time on the Isle of Lewis (Top left hand corner) and
returned to the Home Counties (Grouped round London) I was waiting to
buy a place in East Anglia and had an ice-cream van during that time.

A couple of women used to come and buy ice-creams for when the kids came
out of school, and it was always the younger, the daughter, I correctly
guessed, who ordered them.

One day the elder woman was by herself and she ordered a ninety-nine and
a Popeye. I served her, then said: "This might seem a strange thing to
ask, but could you ask me for those again?"

She gave me a very odd look and said: "Carn I harve a nainty-naine arnd
a Porpeye?" I said to her (not sure of all spellings here!) "Meall thu
Ruadhasach?" (pronounced Melu Roo-och, and meaning 'Are you from
Point?')

She nearly dropped the ice creams.

"Not only do I find an Englishman in Essex who recognises exactly where
I come from, but he speaks Gaelic with a Lewis accent!"

Spelling it is an entirely different kettle of fish.

Who can guess how to pronounce 'bithidh'?

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