Share For small islands, Great Britain and Ireland are home to a wide variety of accents. Some can be difficult to distinguish from one another, while others like the more rounded voweled Belfast accent sounds very different from a Dublin accent. When put to the test, people from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, and northeastern England appear to be better at detecting a person’s accent than those who live in the more southern regions of London, Bristol, and Essex. The findings are described in a study published November 20 in the journal…
