Kimwonjin3

Union Flag

You uploaded a picture of the union flag for inclusion in the article British English. While this is a welcome addition, I have two crticisms. First, the illustration shows the back of the flag not the front. Secondly, and more impotantly, the flag in the picture is being flown upside-down. 109.145.22.224 (talk) 10:15, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because... (The addition made is not in any way gibberish, as claimed. It contains coherent and correct English with a genuine comment on an uploaded picture that fails to correctly depict its subject.) --109.145.22.224 (talk) 10:19, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

It is also that the deletion was made by a sockpuppet of User:Pinethicket who had unconstructively reverted a perfectly valid and good faith edit intended to improve the article concerned. 109.145.22.224 (talk) 10:45, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

File:Dialects of the british isles.jpg

You claim in your edit summary that the map is "fairly correct" and "specific". Could you indicate on what reliable sources - which I assume you checked when you created the file - you base those views? I have argued on the article talk page, and other editors have agreed in their edit summaries, that the map is, in fact, incorrect, inaccurate, unencyclopedic, highly misleading, and has very little basis in reality whatsoever. I welcome your views. Ghmyrtle (talk) 18:17, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

In addition a very reliable site with a scholarly basis which supports this image just has been found. Visit http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/regional-voices/phonological-variation/ , which is provided by the official governmental website-British Library- and you will be able to see that the division of the accents in this map is accurate indeed.

This is the message from the original author, Mr John Hanes.

John Hanes July 23, 2012

"I originally got it from Wikipedia commons. There is some controversy as to exactly where the borders lie but I’ve checked the chart with several British linguists and they’ve told me it’s fairly accurate..." John Hanes englishwithjohn.net Blog, Linked In, Twitter, Facebook, G+

Also, if you search 'various accents of the british isles' on google image, you will be able to see that many of the images support this image. In addition to make sure, visit http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/dialectsofenglish.html written by the linguist with a doctorate and if you refer to the map in the middle, you will be able to see that the map is correct.

In addition as for the Scottish, refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Lowlands and you'll be able to find that the border is correctly divided. I believe there's no 'perfectly' accurate borders for the accents since the language itself doesn't work that way. Still, this image is very acccurate compared with all the other maps in general. Thankyou — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.113.153.131 (talk) 00:31, 24 July 2012 (UTC)