The UK – like any country has its share of regional accents. Some of them are well known and others not so well known, but anywhere you are in the UK you might hear different accents so it’s a good idea to become a little familiar with them. The best known accents are RP (Received Pronunciation or the BBC 
English which isn’t exactly a regional accent but suggests a standard educated southern speaker), cockney, geordie, scouse or brummie! Even in London you can hear lots and lots different accents just by moving from one district to another – experts might be able to tell a difference between a west London accent and a South London accent! Then there are the famous ‘upper class’ accents which you might expect to hear if you met the upper classes. Actually a few people still do speak like this but usually in the Royal family and a very small circle connected to them!
Scouse from Liverpool, Brummie from Birmingham, Geordie from Newcastle, Cockney from London are some of the most distinctive accents – but there are also strong regional accents in The Midlands, yorkshire, the West Country, Cumbria and of course in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
If you want to hear what some of these sound like, the British Library has a huge collection of different accents – you can listen to them here.
And if that’s alll a bit serious, here is the famous British actor Peter Sellers using some of the accents!
Recently reported a woman in SW England who suffered bad migraines suddenly one day (following a particularly strong migraine)started to speak English (her native language) with a Chinese accent – instead of the usual accent. Apparently her own sister couldn’t understand or recognise her! So perhaps some simple changes to the brain can have huge and unexpected effects on the accents
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