Yes. There's certainly a huge variety in the dialects spoken here. There are quite a few I struggle to understand when they are strong.
RE: Afternoon Walk + Shots of The River Porvoo
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Australian English is a good example of what I mean by how who the first British settlers were may have influenced the entire dialect for centuries to come. In England, the lower socio-economic stratum tends pronounce vowels more broadly than the upper strata. Think Cockney vs. Received Pronunciation. Who were the first British settlers to Australia in the early 19th century? Deported people of mostly English lower class, administrators and soldiers. Today, all Australians pronounce vowels in a "broad" manner that may have evolved from how the 19th century (mostly Southern English) lower classes pronounced them. Cockney and Australian English of the present time are not the same but they share broad vowel pronunciation as a general feature.
Another example is the rhotic r of nearly every variant of American English. A rhotic r of one kind or another was a general feature of English in all of England and not just West Country two or more centuries back.
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