Quote Originally Posted by Mctwattybollox View Post
It sounded like an educated accent, if there can be such a thing as that.
In England I would say "The Queen's" or Oxford English to be the "educated" accent (which remains to be seen if it actually is ). At the other end of things cockney can be damn near unintelligible to those unfamiliar with it. But yeah for such a relatively small place (The whole of the British Isles is smaller than the Canadian province of Ontario where I live) the accents around the British Isles can really, really varied. Had a neighbor from Dublin once and I could hardly understand him when he got excited over something. And then there's Scottish... Haggis anyone?