Nerd alert! О разнице между терминами “акцент” и “диалект”
“The terms accent and dialect are almost interchangeable; in popular parlance they mean much the same thing. But some distinctions may be useful. In its scholarly sense, a dialect is a legitimate variant of a language, telling us about the regional and caste/class origins of the speaker and more. We refer to the Lancashire dialect of English, or the Parisian dialect of French. A dialect has its own vocabulary and grammar, as well as its own distinctive pronunciation...