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Foreign accents....
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not to start the next war, but i bet a whole loads of scots just rolled over in there graves.Originally Posted by fwan
Okay yes thats what i mean.. but what do you mean scots arent british?
once, i called a Scot british, and he got all mad and wanted to fight. lol.
Usually they are the Scots living in England as wellOriginally Posted by theimp98
not to start the next war, but i bet a whole loads of scots just rolled over in there graves.
once, i called a Scot british, and he got all mad and wanted to fight. lol.
They would as well!Originally Posted by theimp98
not to start the next war, but i bet a whole loads of scots just rolled over in there graves.
Same here. Somedays the NYer in me comes out a lot, some days not so much. But I'm an upstate Nyer...no city chick. The accent is very different! Mostly words ending in vowels get drawn out. My big ones areOriginally Posted by LuckyGirl
I grew up in NY, and even though I've lived in PA for 15 years, sometimes you can still hear the NYer in me.... especially when I say "hunnee, why is the laawwwn mo-wa still in the yard?" or "can you get me a cup-a cawfee please" or "that dawg of the neighbors really drives me bippy!" my SIL & DH always call me on it too.....
Maaa, Winda (window), and pilloooo (Pillow). I fully admist to cawfee too! Caaar, with a flat a sound...etc. What irritates me is when people hear you are from NY and assume you mean NYC. If I was from the city, I'd say the City! I have nothing against the city, but they are 2 different worlds!
I laugh at one of my friends who grew up around here (mid-atlantic region). She says wooder for water and behgle for bagel. We have a whole routine we go through along the lines of:
Me: BAgle!
Her: beggle!
Me: BAAAAgle!
Her BAAAHHHHHgle!
My MIL is orriginally from Georgia and one of my SIL's picked up the accent too. When I get around them it starts catching on and I have to remind myself I am a NYer I am a NYer!
Yes your mums right,She is British.
Geographically 'British' is anybody who comes from the British Isles,That includes Great Britain,Shetland Isles,Isle of man,Ireland and all the islands around the coast.
Politically the UK is England,Wales,Scotland,Northern Ireland,Jersey and Geurnsey.
Great Britain does not include Ireland at all (not even Northern Ireland)
You will hear it referred to as Great Britain AND Northern Ireland
Great Britain: England, Scotland and Wales
United Kingdom: England, Scotland and Wales (GB) AND Northern Ireland
The British Isles: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Isles (Guernsey & Jersey) and the Isle of Man
But people who come from the Republic of Ireland are not British (and you will have a harder time convincing them that they are than any Scot)
You will hear it referred to as Great Britain AND Northern Ireland
Great Britain: England, Scotland and Wales
United Kingdom: England, Scotland and Wales (GB) AND Northern Ireland
The British Isles: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Isles (Guernsey & Jersey) and the Isle of Man
But people who come from the Republic of Ireland are not British (and you will have a harder time convincing them that they are than any Scot)
Yes you're right too
variation in accents.English,Scotish,Irish,Welsh and Cornish.
If we want to get more technical about itOriginally Posted by icklemiss21
In terms of accents, the 'typical English country' James Bond type accent is considered British
In linguistic terms, there is also a 'British accent' and is associated with Received Pronounciation (which admittedly is rare these days) but the typical Oxford/Cambridge university professor type accent
If we want to get technical about it
The James Bond accent isn't considered 'British' here,It is foriegners that think that we all speak that way.It is considered the 'Queens English',Which only the 'priviledged' are taught to speak(like the Oxford/Cambridge Proffesor).The Queen and anybody else who has been taught the Queens English will never have a accent.
There is a big difference in speaking The Queens English and having an accent
Anybody can speak English if they learn,The Welsh can speak it,The Irish can speak it,The spanish can speak it,But they all have their own accents,So No there is no such thing as a British accent.
Thats like saying there is a european accent
Did I say Great Britain includes Ireland?????NO
I said Great Britain and Ireland is part of the British Isles
I have a nice vanilla accent, I think, but when I travel and am playing with people from all over the country and world, they can tell I'm from Chicago almost instantly. Just by how I say "Chicago" and "Allie"
However, I say "bag" and "magazine" like the cheeseheads do!
However, I say "bag" and "magazine" like the cheeseheads do!
It's funny - most people think canadians sound alike but that's not true! I spent a lot of time in the Ottawa valley growing up, and I'm told my English sounds like Ottawa Valley english. My French sounds like Jonquiere french, so everything is different!
I wasn't replying to you, merely stating the same as you, I had left the window open for some time and had started replying before youOriginally Posted by furryferals
Did I say Great Britain includes Ireland?????NO
I said Great Britain and Ireland is part of the British Isles
as far as your other post, it isn't considered an accent IN the UK but it is outside the UK
I LOVE Italian accents. Very sexy!
Erm, I don't like that accent. It sounds weird to meOriginally Posted by wookie130
I LOVE Italian accents. Very sexy!
Well pray tell me,Nobody else mentioned or questioned Ireland or Scotland being British for that matter,Except Fran and I confirmed what her mum was saying to her.So why say it as though questioning what I was saying
and the people who come from Ireland and Scotland are BRITISH wether they POLITICALLY like it or not.
Nah, we sound normal..I think all Canadians sound the same really. Except for the Maritimers, they sound different.Originally Posted by Moz
I find people from southern Ontario sound different to what I'm used to hearing but I don't know why.
