Some accents are better than others. Skills Read this passage carefully. Accent This is the term used to describe the way people pronounce words. Most British people English speakers have a regional accent. The place they live influences the sound of their words.
Dialects belong to particular places and are usually spoken with the accent of the same area.
For example, Scouse dialect will be spoken with a Liverpool accent, Geordie dialect with a Newcastle accent. Dialects also belong to particular cultures and communities. For example, in some families the older members of the family have come to Britain from another country, where English is the first language spoken. It is quite likely that they will speak a very different form of English from the younger members of the family , who will have spent all their lives in Britain and spoken English from their earliest childhood. This is the dialect of English used for most written English.