brittish accents

[smokingrobot]

got off the phone with customer service at a site and the girl was brittish. i thought about keeping her on longer just to chat or something. ask her some random questions like, how many 5 yr olds she could beat down etc etc. i dont know... the accent is nice and soothing.

anyone?

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

Yeah I agree. There are 2 brits in one of my classes, and I always hope they will participate so I can hear them talk.

-Craig

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got off the phone with customer service at a site and the girl was brittish. i thought about keeping her on longer just to chat or something. ask her some random questions like, how many 5 yr olds she could beat down etc etc. i dont know... the accent is nice and soothing.

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A+ post. I feel the same way.

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Only girls though, the dudes just end up sounding like pretentious a-holes.

[mason55]

do brits feel the same way about american accents?

[RacersEdge]

It's great if they sound like Elizabeth Hurley.

[Wetdog]

If I never hear another person say "cawn't" "bawth" or "dawnce" it'll be too soon. It's ENGLISH for chrissake. Can't they just say the letters that are there?

[diebitter]

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do brits feel the same way about american accents?

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Yeah, they sound pretty much okay. Birds from the South sound particularly hot (if they talk like Scarlett O'Hara anyway - without the 'Fiddle-de-de' though).

[diebitter]

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If I never hear another person say "cawn't" "bawth" or "dawnce" it'll be too soon. It's ENGLISH for chrissake. Can't they just say the letters that are there?

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You mean like tomayto?

[DasLeben]

While I was doing a stint of casino whoring, I had to call up customer support for Casino-on-Net. I ended up talking to a really cute sounding British girl. Now I want a British girlfriend. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Voltron87]

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It's great if they look like Elizabeth Hurley.

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fyp

[CrazyEyez]

Cleveland: The only British idiom I know is that "[censored]" means "cigarette."
Peter Griffin: Well, someone tell this cigarette to shut up.

[chisness]

my dad and i were born there, moved here when i was 1

i still get to hear a hint of it every day

[judgesmails]

Exactly. I spent a couple weeks on England and by the third day I was ready to poke my eyes out listening to that high-pitched jibberish.

The chicks did not annoy me though.

[smokingrobot]

i didnt think this was a brittish idiom.

[smokingrobot]

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While I was doing a stint of casino whoring, I had to call up customer support for Casino-on-Net. I ended up talking to a really cute sounding British girl. Now I want a British girlfriend. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

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exactly.

[Wetdog]

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If I never hear another person say "cawn't" "bawth" or "dawnce" it'll be too soon. It's ENGLISH for chrissake. Can't they just say the letters that are there?

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You mean like tomayto?

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Yes "to ma' to" " not "to mah' to" ". There's no "h" and there sure as hell aint no "w".

[Wetdog]

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While I was doing a stint of casino whoring, I had to call up customer support for Casino-on-Net. I ended up talking to a really cute sounding British girl. Now I want a British girlfriend. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

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exactly.

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To me it sound like "valley girl" in reverse. Or "vahllie gill" more (in)correctly.

[pokerjoker]

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do brits feel the same way about american accents?

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yup. the ones i bet did at least. Australians particularily loved it.

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

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Only girls though, the dudes just end up sounding like pretentious a-holes.

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Yeah they are both girls, of course.

[Sightless]

I like irish accents -_- or Scottish -_- sound funny

[diebitter]

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If I never hear another person say "cawn't" "bawth" or "dawnce" it'll be too soon. It's ENGLISH for chrissake. Can't they just say the letters that are there?

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You mean like tomayto?

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Yes "to ma' to" " not "to mah' to" ". There's no "h" and there sure as hell aint no "w".

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There's definitely no 'y' either, which was my original point. 'ma' is pronounced like car (without the 'r').

Otherwise you get:

James Cagney in White Heat: 'I made it, may! Top of the world!'

Everyone everywhere has strange idiomatic ways to pronounce, and I think it's quite nice personally.

[partygirluk]

Not all British accents are the same. The Birmingham accent is by far the most ugly in the world.

[stigmata]

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Only girls though, the dudes just end up sounding like pretentious a-holes.

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do brits feel the same way about american accents?

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To be honest, lots of people here find the US accent annonying and grating. It can however, be attractive on the right person/accent. Its basically fine on film or when your in america, it's mostly annoying on clueless american tourists in london.

[stigmata]

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Not all British accents are the same. The Birmingham accent is by far the most ugly in the world.

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Yes.
And a soft Irish accent is the most beautifully spoken English.

[mackthefork]

Which ones, people from Newcastle or Liverpool sound as different as an Australian from a Yank, there are a good couple of hundred British accents and most of them are totally different.

Mack

[mackthefork]

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Only girls though, the dudes just end up sounding like pretentious a-holes.

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Tally ho old bean, chin up eh, we're just waiting for those frightful Yankie oiks to save us from the Hun.

Mack

[mackthefork]

BBC Voices link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/index.shtml)

I love girls from North Wales and Edinburgh, heh and lots of other places.

Mack

[daveymck]

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Which ones, people from Newcastle or Liverpool sound as different as an Australian from a Yank, there are a good couple of hundred British accents and most of them are totally different.

Mack

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But bizarrely when you see an english actor on a US show they always sound more english eg When her from Cold Feet was on Friends, I dont know if its people acting more english or just when its in a show full of us accents which generally we cant tell apart, unless its real southern drawl.

However as I have said before on here my Durham accent (a slower versiopn of the Newcastle accent) in the states was taken to be mexican.

Accents in the UK can be different even within 10-15 miles.

[mackthefork]

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However as I have said before on here my Durham accent (a slower versiopn of the Newcastle accent) in the states was taken to be mexican.


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I've mistaken even some Geordies I've known for years for Mexicans, when they really let that accent go, it is almost incomprehensible to me, and I'm a Northerner.

Mack

[diebitter]

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Not all British accents are the same. The Birmingham accent is by far the most ugly in the world.

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Yes.
And a soft Irish accent is the most beautifully spoken
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Spot on there! However, I think virtually all British regional accents, when soft, are very nice to listen to. Cept West Midlands.


Here's a Brummie joke for UKers:

Noddy Holder is going through an old clothes shop to try and find clothes for Slade's new tour. The shop assistant finds something.

Shop assistant: "Hey, Noddy, how about a kipper tie?"
Noddy: "Ahh, Bustin! Tew sugars, please!"

I doubt this is translatable to the colonies.

[jason_t]

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Only girls though, the dudes just end up sounding like pretentious a-holes.

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Ha. My ex-girlfriend used to say only the dudes have nice accents and the girls end up sounding like pretentious bitches.

[diebitter]

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However as I have said before on here my Durham accent (a slower versiopn of the Newcastle accent) in the states was taken to be mexican.


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I'm from the promised land, South London ("Sarf Lundun"), and was mistaken for an Aussie in Vegas. A good slap sorted it out.

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I'm from the promised land, South London ("Sarf Lundun"), and was mistaken for an Aussie in Vegas. A good slap sorted it out.

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Ah yes, the South London/Sussex/Surrey drawl. Countless people from down south get accused of being Australian. I used to manage a pub in Sussex, and regularly got asked which part of Australia I was from. Once from an Australian!

Of course I've lived here in Sussex my entire life.

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Here's a Brummie joke for UKers:

Noddy Holder is going through an old clothes shop to try and find clothes for Slade's new tour. The shop assistant finds something.

Shop assistant: "Hey, Noddy, how about a kipper tie?"
Noddy: "Ahh, Bustin! Tew sugars, please!"

I doubt this is translatable to the colonies.

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usually I love a guy with an English accent but I have to say spelled out it sounds a little gay.


how about a kipper tie???


what does it even mean?

[diebitter]

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how about a kipper tie???


what does it even mean?

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Kipper tie == cup of tea (in Brummie)

Hence 'tew sugars' (two sugars)

I doubt it's funny any more.

[stigmata]

If you don't know how a brummie accent sounds, then the joke doesn't work.

Also note that slade were famous for their dress sense which included kipper ties.

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I'm sure you sound a lot cooler in person though. British accents (I don't care what region you're from) are sexy !

[diebitter]

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ah, got it.


I'm sure you sound a lot cooler in person though. British accents (I don't care what region you're from) are sexy !

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Just to clear this up, I do not sound anything like a Brummie.

And you are obviously a person with excellent taste.

[jkkkk]

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However as I have said before on here my Durham accent (a slower versiopn of the Newcastle accent) in the states was taken to be mexican.


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I'm from the promised land, South London ("Sarf Lundun"), and was mistaken for an Aussie in Vegas. A good slap sorted it out.

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Exact same thing happened to me, I love it when they tell me to 'speak english', I tell him, 'I am English..'

'Oh you sounded like one of them Aussies.'

heh

[ChipWrecked]

I'm a yank with friends in Bideford, North Devon. They claim the accent in Appledore is incomprehensible... just down the road.

[M2d]

especially if it's on an indian girl...especially if she looks like aishwarya rai

[smokingrobot]

when i went to college i had a friend from england.

and since it was a wacky ass liberal arts school, all classes were discussions, no letures etc.

so anyway, i always thought that no matter what he said, it sounded serious. even when he dropped a line "its not like mother's give their sons blow jobs"...

(it actually made sense in context of the discussion, but i never thought he sounded pretentious)

[smokingrobot]

which is the one with the real annoying "INN'IT?"

translated - isnt it?

[Sephus]

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If I never hear another person say "cawn't" "bawth" or "dawnce" it'll be too soon. It's ENGLISH for chrissake. Can't they just say the letters that are there?

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You mean like tomayto?

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Yes "to ma' to" " not "to mah' to" ". There's no "h" and there sure as hell aint no "w".

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the word "cat" is not the letter c plus the letter a plus the letter t.

it's the "k" sound plus the "a" sound plus the "t" sound.

words are combinations of sounds, not letters. spelling rougly reflects pronunciation, pronunciation is not derived from spelling.

[jakethebake]

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If I never hear another person say "cawn't" "bawth" or "dawnce" it'll be too soon. It's ENGLISH for chrissake. Can't they just say the letters that are there?

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You mean like tomayto?

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Yes "to ma' to" " not "to mah' to" ". There's no "h" and there sure as hell aint no "w".

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the word "cat" is not the letter c plus the letter a plus the letter t.

it's the "k" sound plus the "a" sound plus the "t" sound.

words are combinations of sounds, not letters. spelling rougly reflects pronunciation, pronunciation is not derived from spelling.

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[jakethebake]

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Yeah I agree. There are 2 brits in one of my classes, and I always hope they will participate so I can hear them talk.

-Craig

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[PITTM]

this is generally the only positive thing about having to call pokerroom/casino support for online sites with support in britian/any british territory. they all sound so calm and happy and it makes me more calm and happy when theyre telling me why theyre holding my $2k or somesuch.

rj

[JDErickson]

What I can't stand is the British woman who has lived in US for 90 years who still insists on trying to speak with an accent.

Local Radio Awards

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Easiest voice to pick out: Abby Bonell of KNRS radio, with her British accent

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Its so fake its sickening

You Riilly feel that the Bri-ISH oxent is owwwl that apiilling??

[diebitter]

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You Riilly feel that the Bri-ISH oxent is owwwl that apiilling??

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WTF is that? Bjork?