DollyLlama

That was me a few months ago, the computer we had was playing up and i had to wait until my husband came back in July. We got a new one and he set it all up I hate trying to do stuff like that.....
He gets back in September so will have to see what needs fixing......

Jerseygirl

I've got Ray's number Vic.

britvic

Shall I surprise him then

Jerseygirl

Yeah 'coz he won't know I've just told you.

britvic

You should of been a little more secret, like PMing me never mind

snowbunny

I knew it was not English, Scots, Welsh, or Irish.

Maybe the Southern Hemisphere types sound alike to me?

cinnabar

Kiwis say their "e"s like "i"s, so "put the pen on the bed" would be "put the pin on the bid". South Africans make their "a"s into "e"s (as in Effrica). That's mostly how I tell them apart. That and the rugby shirts.

BigDavyG

Kiwis sound like camp Aussies and I had to say toe-mate-o yesterday after 4 attempts at asking for a sandwich with no tomato

Partystar

I have almost the same problem, except my name is Liz! It something like this -

Them - 'What is your name?'
Me - 'Liz'
Them - 'Lis?' (or something similar sounding) or *blank stare*
Me - 'No, Liz as in Elizabeth'

It gets f*okin' annoying, I don't know how I can make myself clearer. Any suggestions?

I suppose I could just start going by a different name altogether or my nickname (Red), I'm not sure Partystar is appropriate!!!

joto

I get asked a lot if I am Irish. I'm Scottish with not that much of an accent. I suppose if people haven't heard either accent except on TV they could mistake the two. I've even been mistaken for Scandinavian or Australian. The hardest accent over here to understand is some of the deep south accents. I work on the phone all day so you get to hear some really heavy accents.

cinnabar

I think it's hilarious when they get some ordinary (and presumably cheap) voice over actor to do an Irish or an English accent for adverts. They could so easily get a real Irish or English person, but they just don't care whether it sounds authentic or not. Put him in a leprechaun costume and that makes him Irish, so the accent doesn't really matter.

bettyboop80

Most Americans like to guess where I'm from, and their first guess is usually Australia. Last week, I met a Brit who said she'd been here 30 years so she'd lost her original accent (darn sarf British). I was aghast, I'd have sworn blind she was an Aussie. Is that what living here for a long time does to a British accent? She certainly didn't sound American.[/QUOTE]

I have always thiough that an australian accent is a cross between england and america anyway and that must be the case because I am always getting mistaken for australian (it happened yesterday actually and this was someone that actually knew an australian in real life!).
At first i thought it was my hampshire accent but now i think its just the american thats mixed in.

bettyboop80

People here dont even realise its not real...some people at work watch one of those stupid soap operas and of course the bad guy on there is english. the other day i just burst out laughing at how bad his accent was and when i told them what i was laughing at they were genuinely amazed he wasnt really english

bettyboop80

my dads the same way when he comes over here, he has a STRONG hampshire country accent. He won't even go through drive-thru's here anymore because they have so much trouble understanding him. and then the whole family falls about laughing at how american i am when i order something because i know how to say it so they understand me

blaze

Has anyone ever tried to say the name Barb (as in short for Barbara)? That one gets people everytime when I say it. If you don't put an American twang to it then forget it, you will never be understood! I usually resort to just saying Barbara it's easier (although sometimes when someone have shortenend their name they get offended if you put it back to full length again!)