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Accents Unveiled: A Quiz on British and American Dialects

Test your knowledge about accents in Britain and America with this engaging quiz! Explore how accents reveal social and regional backgrounds, and discover the unique elements that differentiate them.

Learn about the diversity of accents.
Challenge your understanding of language and pronunciation.
Find out how much you really know!

12 Questions3 MinutesCreated by DivingDove321

An accent can tell us about a person's social class, location, educational background, attitudes and political opinions.

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Different accents can be identified by the different ways in which they pronounce the same words.

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There are at least 115 different sounding accents in Britain.

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British accents do not share any features. So you cannot group them as 'British accents'.

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There is not such a thing as an 'American accent' and a 'British accent'.

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Some of the similarities between the way people speak in America and Britain are: the 't' sound, the 'r' sound and the 'o' sound.

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The American English accents tend to be more 'nasal' compared to the British English accents.

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RP pronunciation is also known as BBC English or Standard English.

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The RP accent is usually associated with educated people who speak correctly.

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Some accents are more 'correct' than others.

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From all British accents, RP is considered to be the most clear one. It is also a non-specific region accent.

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The RP accent is most common in the north of England.

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