Haha I agree. Here in France I have dealt with Northern Englishmen and Scotsmen that were hardly comprehensible.
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regional English is bad? bring back Lord Reith?
sep 2, 2025, 7:53 am • 0 0 • view
If you want to be understood it’s better to speak proper English.
sep 2, 2025, 7:55 am • 2 0 • view
I teach English as a second language to mainly middle-aged european business people, nearly all spoken/listening. There are I believe about 180 million Europeans who have English but are non-native speakers. I don't find the concept of "proper English" helpful in the least
sep 2, 2025, 9:25 am • 0 0 • view
Whatever, but if you speak English with a fat Scottish accent, I’m afraid our conversation will be short.
sep 2, 2025, 11:01 am • 0 0 • view
one of their biggest problems is occasionally coming across native UK English speakers who "speak proper" and think that's enough, and it's not their problem that people don't understand them and are shy or afraid to reply in case they make a Grammer/vocabulary error
sep 2, 2025, 9:28 am • 0 0 • view
Actually Lord Reith spoke with a Scots accent. You can find clips on line. He just insisted BBC announcers used RP.
sep 2, 2025, 8:33 am • 0 0 • view