Birmingham to Plymouth Tape 2 01 04 003

Two females from England. 20s. Students and bar workers. One is from Birmingham, the other from Plymouth (Vic). Discussing the question 'what are some of the biggest problems in the country?' The first girl doesn't like asylum seekers and thinks England is too small for all the people coming in. There aren't enough jobs and the pay is bad. Thinks people should go to Russia instead, since it's so much bigger. The second girl believes it's evolution. She's studied biology. She thinks the problems are too big to be solved by any individual, you can't do a lot by yourself, so you shouldn't lose sleep over it. Talks about a Russian sub catastrophe. Says mammals might not be the future, could be something else. 

England, Birmingham, Plymouth, student, bar, Russia, wages, overpopulation, mammals, evolution, biology, submarine, catastrophe, conscience

 

Dialects and accents vary amongst the four countries of the United Kingdom, as well as within the countries themselves.

The major divisions are normally classified as English English (or English as spoken in England, which encompasses Southern English dialects, West Country dialects, East and West Midlands English dialects and Northern English dialects), Ulster English in Northern Ireland, Welsh English (not to be confused with the Welsh language), and Scottish English (not to be confused with the Scots language). The various British dialects also differ in the words that they have borrowed from other languages. Around the middle of the 15th century, there were points where within the 5 major dialects there were almost 500 ways to spell the word though.