Dialects and accents vary amongst the four countries of the United Kingdom,as well as within the countries themselves.There are also differences in the English spoken by different socio-economic groups in any particular region.
The major divisions are normally classified as English English (or English as spoken in England,which comprises Southern English dialects,West Country dialects,Midlands English[disambiguation needed ] dialects and Northern English dialects),Welsh English (not to be confused with the Welsh language),and Scottish English (not to be confused with the Scots language).The various British dialects also differ in the words that they have borrowed from other languages.The Scottish and Northern English dialects include many words originally borrowed from Old Norse and a few borrowed from Gaelic,though most of the structure and common words are conservative Anglo-Saxon,hence "kirk" (church),"beck" (stream),"feart" (feared),"fell" (hillside),"kistie" (chest,box),"lang syne" (long ago) and so on.