Accents..

[Tuerto]

The two accents concerned are different but they have a degree of commonality that would not correspond if you compared either accent with other accents further afield e.g. Kent, Cornwall or Chepstow.

Yup. there are similarities, which is something else that interests me, how accents 'feather out' into near by regions.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Yup. there are similarities, which is something else that interests me, how accents 'feather out' into near by regions.

If you walked from Land's End to John O'Groats and spoke to local, indigenous people every few miles you probably wouldn't detect a great deal of change from one day to the next. It's more akin to a continuum and in all directions. Certain characteristics may be concentrated in certain areas, of course.