English and Scots Dialects (1905-1961)


The British counties at the time of the
dialect surveys


These pages are not intended to document the variety of accents of English and Scots spoken today, but rather to show the features of the traditional dialects spoken in recent times, county by county.


Choose a dialect:

Shetland
 
Orkney
 
 
Caithness
Ross &
Cromarty
Nairn Moray Banff
Aberdeen
Argyll Perth Angus Kincardine
Dunbarton Stirling Clack-
mannan
Kinross Fife
Renfrew West
Lothian
Mid
Lothian
East
Lothian
Ayrshire Lanarkshire Peebles Berwick
Wigtown Kirkcudbright Dumfries Roxburgh
Cumberland Northum-
berland
Westmorland Durham
Lancashire Yorkshire
Cheshire Derby
shire
Nottingham
shire
Lincoln
shire
Shrop
shire
Stafford
shire
Leicester
shire
Rutland Huntingdon
shire
Norfolk
Hereford
shire
Worcester
shire
Warwick
shire
Northampton
shire
Bedford
shire
Cambridge
shire
Suffolk
Gloucester
shire
Oxford
shire
Buckingham
shire
Hertfordshire Essex
Somerset Wiltshire Berkshire Surrey London Kent
Devon Dorset Hampshire Sussex
Cornwall


Counties where Scottish Gaelic, Manx, or Welsh were the spoken language are not included.

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