"English Accents and Dialects" is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional varieties of English spoken in the British Isles today. Together with invaluable overviews of numerous regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides you with a detailed description of key features of Received Pronounciation (RP) as well as several major non-standard varieties of English. The main regional differences are followed by a survey of speech in over 20 areas of the UK and Ireland, audio samples of which are available for you to download at www.hodderplus.com/linguistics. Thoroughly updated to include recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool English, this fifth edition of English Accents and Dialects also contains new entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle, Middlesbrough, Southampton, London West Indian, Lancashire and the Shetlands. This combination of reference manual and practical guide makes this fifth edition of "English Accents and Dialects" a highly useful resource that provides you with comprehensive and contemporary coverage of speech in the UK and Ireland today.