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Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla

You're not getting it - Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset are all distinct, similar yes, but still most definitely distinct. That's after modern communications and the internet - as little as 100-150 years ago people in rural Devon could not understand people in rural Cornwall and would be hard pressed to understand people from Somerset. Hell, people here in Exeter sound different from people in North Devon and I sound inestimably different from either with my Surrey-Hampshire borders accent.

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No I get it. When I meet people on the street here I can pick out where in Nova Scotia they're from (if they're European or African) by how they talk. Your putting up regional variations of England/Britain up on a pedestal as being somehow unique, it's really not. It happens everywhere. You know about yours because your from Britain. Same as me.

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Originally Posted by lars573

No I get it. When I meet people on the street here I can pick out where in Nova Scotia they're from (if they're European or African) by how they talk. Your putting up regional variations of England/Britain up on a pedestal as being somehow unique, it's really not. It happens everywhere. You know about yours because your from Britain. Same as me.

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I'm not putting it up on a pedestal - I'm saying it's much more pronounced, and it reflects historical identity much more. Nova Scotia is Province of Canada - Devon and Hampshire are counties and I can potentially tell where in the county someone comes from. As in, West Hampshire (Winchester area) or East Hampshire (Southampton area).

I apparently have a very strange accent which is atypical for my area. Though apparently, you can tell I am from "the North" easy enough.