Are you from Geordie? That’s the only dialect that I’ve personally encountered from that region that really made my head spin trying to understand it!

I’ve actually never really even said British outside of elementary school history class learning about Paul Revere saying “the British are coming” and when writing that comment. I’ve always said English or UK. It’s similar in the states. We have dozens of common regional dialects but ask someone not from the US to do an American accent and 9 times out of 10 it’s gonna be the stereotypical valley accent from Cali. I actually rarely hear anyone say “British” anymore.

I thought British meant being from Great Britain though which I thought was just the 3 countries on the island and then the UK is all 4 - including N Ireland. Have I had that wrong this whole time?