A few weeks ago while going for a drive with my parents we were listening to the radio and there is actually a man who is travelling the length of britain obtaining different accents for a tv programe. he mentioned that there are hundreds of different accents in england and that everyone everyday is subjected to a rare and different accent in there own home town, due to the many different races of people and how we nowadays speak our own accent.
take a look around you and see who you have living next door to you? are they english, asian, indian, from another county in england? ie from newcastle, london, yorkshire? if you speak to your neighbours you actually pick up their accent and mix it in with your own accent and thus bringing out a new accent!
have you noticed when you take a young child on holiday, say they make friends with another child from liverpool you come home after that holiday and the child speaks to a friend of yours who hasnt been on this holiday and believe it but the child will be speaking liverpudlian.
we lancashire people still got our "owd" accent but the more and more people who move up here with different accents will slowly change our accent into something that will not be as broad as what we can be now!
