brittish accents

[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

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BBC Voices link

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