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most of these so called dialects are just accents. I don't believe I said that Liverpool and Brummie sound the same - if I did I take it back, I meant only to say that they are easily intelligible.
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there aren't really many different British accents. All of the south-east speaks londonish english (like me) the south-west is similar. All of norht england is fairly uniform, slightly different...

1.The tomayto thing just gets on my nerves.
2. Who is this non-native speaker? Does one now need to be american to be a native speaker or is the dumbing-down of America so widespread that an average...

pronounciation is defined by common use, not by which language its from... speaking of common use changing meaning:

On being elected president - Nixon: "I can't believe the enormity of what has...

Nicola and Nicole are both fairly common names in the UK, for example my next door neighbour is called Nicole and my sister's friend is called Nicola

Anastacia is a nice posh girls' name in English. is it derived from Russian?

argh that's what I'm saying! It's NOT regareded as old fashioned here.[/b]

in any case, Edmund is not a common name here, but people think of it as perfectly normal. I think its not that uncommon in France, but they spell it Edmond (yuk!)

I guess that's just an american thing. We laugh at names like Bob Junior and Chuck (whatever that's supposed to be short for) maybe only Tv characters are called stuff like that though..

:P What's wrong with Edmund? It's not like I'm called Edwin..haha...and at least you won't get teachers confused at school..in our class there is a Matthew Burgess and a Matthew Burt next to...

how about Эдмунд Ричардович? Does that sound stupid? (don't say that the Edmund bit is stupid cos it's my real name not one I'm making up)