... include the Yorkshire dialect, the Cockney dialect and so on. A person's regional dialect is a key indicator of part of someone's personal background as most of us are able to recognize where a person grew up by the regional dialect that they adopt. For example, G.B. Shaw once wrote "You can spot an Irishman or a Yorkshire man by his brogue. I can place any man within six miles; I can place him within two miles in London. Sometimes within two streets." The term 'dialect' is a much broader term than 'accent' in that 'dialect' refers to vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation whilst 'accent' refers to pronunciation alone. To prevent these two terms being mixed-up, 'dialect' is sometimes used to refer to only vocabulary and grammar. If the term is used to that effect then it is easy to say (at least theoretically) that the same dialect can be spoken with ...

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