It's this variance of accents/dialects just within the UK that always makes me question why people want to "lose" their accent when speaking English as a second language.
I sort of get it - and I know people even within the UK sometimes work hard to lose their regional accent.
But, as someone with a nondescript home counties accent in my English (and similarly Stockholm in my Swedish), I sometimes wish I had a hint of something more interesting in the way I speak.
