Questions & Help : Writing in British English

I would personally just listen to a lot of Russell Brand and use the language he uses. That, or pick any major English celeb and model it after the way they speak. It might save you some time and still nail the autheticity.

Just a thought.

Don't use Russell Brand, no one here talks like that. Pick where your character is from. Generally, well travelled Brits (and by that I assume you mean English, not Scottish, Welsh or Irish, right?) will use a combination of common UK and US slang, mainly stuff picked up from film and TV shows. Regional slang tends to be embedded from childhood, so you really need to know where in the country(ies) your character is from.

Yeah, that's fine by me. I've lived in various parts of the country, know a lot of people from varied backgrounds and locations, and have a fairly good grasp of regional dialects and slang. I'd be happy to run through dialogue and offer thoughts and opinions, possibly in exchange for similar from others? Story (extract) swaps, something like that?

Not that springs to mind. I think your best bet is to pick somewhere then find people either from there or that know the dialect and slang. Some is more localised, other slang is more general, e.g. a bread roll in Southern England (London and below) is called a roll, in the Midlands is usually called a cob, and in the North (Manchester upwards) is often called a barm or barm cake.

Hahaha that is blinding Dave, nicely done.

well you have Daphne du Maurier's West Country novels.

in terms of films all i think of at the mo is.-

 Hot Fuzz is in the west country - Gloucestershire i think.

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