British Expats - Accents

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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)

- The Maple Leaf (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/)

- - Accents (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/accents-652291/)

Jingle

Feb 1st 2010 4:49 am

Re: Accents

Here are a great selection of British accents including my particular pet peeve - the Wolverhampton accent.

Devil Girl

Feb 1st 2010 8:31 am

Re: Accents

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Originally Posted by Oink (Post 8299038)

Do think yours has changed since emigrating? Do your family and friends back home now take the piss when you speak to them?

I have not emigrated, but I moved from England to Scotland in 2003. My accent has not changed at all. I had hoped it would have done by now though, as when I go back to England to visit friends and family, you would not know that I have not lived there for nearly seven years.

flashman

Feb 1st 2010 8:57 am

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Originally Posted by Oink (Post 8299038)

But what do you think is the worst?

Sounding like Mrs Bucket !

Jingsamichty

Feb 1st 2010 9:00 am

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Deaf people's accents always make me laugh.

sinurt

Feb 1st 2010 9:40 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 8299732)

Very taken with some NI accents, I am. I'm told though that there's a place, maybe Ballymena, where a sheep tied to a tree is called "temptation" and the accent blends the worst of Ulster and the worst of Scotland.

In Ballymena a sheep tied to a tree is called a leisure centre :rofl:

jad n rich

Feb 1st 2010 12:20 pm

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Originally Posted by Oink (Post 8299038)

As accents go, I realize the southern British one is the nicest and most correct, people over here comment on it all the time. But what do you think is the worst? To me, the Canadian accent sounds a lot like the American one, but a bit more simple. Personally I think the Australian accent is the worst. It's sort of like the accent equivalent of having bad breath. No matter what they say you just want to get away from them. But accents are curious things. Do think yours has changed since emigrating? Do your family and friends back home now take the piss when you speak to them?

I live (for now) in australia and agree with you, it is the worst accent on the planet, especially on women:eek: and they usually make it worse by speaking so loud, why I have no idea, but they do.

However if this thread ever got on the ultra sensitive oz forum you would be hung up:rofl::rofl:

ann m

Feb 1st 2010 12:25 pm

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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 8301185)

"Awlright guv'nor, nah wat yer want is one of these Intel 386 powered machines, it's well kushdi"?

It's "one of them" Intel 386's, not "one of these". Blimey mate, sort i' aaa'.

dbd33

Feb 1st 2010 12:32 pm

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Originally Posted by ann m (Post 8302890)

Blimey mate, sort i' aaa'.

"saht", innit?

Greenhill

Feb 1st 2010 12:54 pm

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English people live in Australia ? !

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Originally Posted by jad n rich (Post 8302880)

Atlantic Xpat

Feb 1st 2010 11:26 pm

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Originally Posted by ann m (Post 8302890)

It's "one of them" Intel 386's, not "one of these". Blimey mate, sort i' aaa'.

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 8302904)

"saht", innit?

"I staaaaand corrected, Bird and Geezer."

fornost

Feb 2nd 2010 12:51 am

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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 8300898)

I don't actively dislike any accent, but would agree about having a distain for lazy speech in any accent, and particularly estuarial english. Although having lived and worked in Essex for sometime I got pretty immune to that.

Although my perfectly articulated RP serves me well, I do find myself adapting and adopting to the circumstances that I'm in. So, when in Essex, one get's a bit Essex dar'nt one etc etc. This is a sub-concious reaction from me and I generally don't realise I'm doing it. Trouble is, that people can think you're taking the piss!

"Yis, 'bys, I talks some different when I'm in Newfoundland."

I am finding that to understand the the Newfoundland accent you have to concentrate !! Especially when you get on the bus and listen to the older generation they talk so fast........ and I find every one is a buddy and I now understand the question "what are you at bye" !!
After living in South Africa for 20 years and in Dover for 4 years It is quite different. I still speak very proper as I was taught !! I do find that kids are very susceptible to accent changes, my teenagers were bullied when we moved to the UK and told to go back to their own country (SA) so they quickly dropped their Afrikaans twang and "spoke like what their mates did" and now in Newfoundland the have dropped a lot of that to speak correct english (because the girls like the accent)!!
All in all I love the Newfounland way of speaking!

Danny B

Feb 2nd 2010 4:25 am

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Originally Posted by Jingsamichty (Post 8302380)

Deaf people's accents always make me laugh.

Charming

Danny B

Feb 2nd 2010 4:27 am

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Originally Posted by Jingle (Post 8301582)

Here are a great selection of British accents including my particular pet peeve - the Wolverhampton accent.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IX1Ymf18UY4

I picked out some English words, what language was the rest in?

Souvy

Feb 2nd 2010 4:30 am

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Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 8305140)

Charming

We were in a supermarket lineup at the weekend. The old hag in front of us laid into the kid packing her groceries.

"What's wrong with you? Don't you speak our language?"

"I'm deaf."

Butch Cassidy

Feb 4th 2010 1:03 pm

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Originally Posted by mandymoochops (Post 8299072)

I don't really have an accent anyway,

:rofl:

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 8299111)

Birmingham's worse than Geordie, innit?

Agreed

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Originally Posted by James Martindale (Post 8299741)

Scouse is the worst.

Dangerous ground your on

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Originally Posted by mandymoochops (Post 8300017)

Dad hailed from Pontypridd ;)

They have Taxis there
:confused:

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Originally Posted by Jingle (Post 8301582)

Here are a great selection of British accents including my particular pet peeve - the Wolverhampton accent.

Forgot that one.

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Originally Posted by jad n rich (Post 8302880)

I live (for now) in australia and agree with you, it is the worst accent on the planet, especially on women:eek:

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 8299165)

That'll be it.

Since you asked, Brummie, South African and Texan sound nasty to me.

Oh, and Valley Girl. Totally.

Have to disagree (could have something to do with my first TRUE sexual experiences being with SA and Aussie Girls though)

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