I wonder if it's really that easy. Look at England, lots of relatively small counties etc. all with their own dialects and accents.

It seems to me that there is more variety in pronunciation and word usage within the English language in the relatively small space England takes up than in all of the rest of the English speaking world combined. Go back in time and it would be even worse. This modern information/communications age is slowly but surely eliminating the variety.


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