What British Accent Do You Have?

[Fwapper]

What what! I say, I just sighted the thread entitled 'What American Accent Do You Have?" and thought: My, my, I really must stand up for old Blighty and make this thread: A monument to all things British.

...Well actually, I was just sort of wondering if Americans really like our British accents or if they think we're all just stuck up snobs who are talking out of our...

I for one have a rather silly, aristocratic sounding babble that rather stands out against... well... everyone up here in Aberdeen. Although I can do a (rather pathetic) Scottish accent if I need to. :2thumbsup:

The good thing is that whenever I go to the US, I am forever getting stopped by friendly people saying: "Oh my gaaawd! Are you ENGLISH!? Oh go on, say something for me! Oh I wish my children/wife/hamsters were so prawper..." Though I'm never really sure if they do like my accent or if they are just mocking me... oh well...

[Andres]

How about Belgian accents ? :inquisitive:

[Fwapper]

Well... the sheer mix of languages in Belgium does seem to have put a stop to people having much of an idea what a 'Belgian accent' might sound like. Probably frenchish, or flemmishish, or otherish.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Well I have an American British accent of course. Now that was easy.

[Kralizec]

How about Belgian accents ? :inquisitive:

I thought that Flemish spoke flawless English? ~;)

[Andres]

I thought that Flemish spoke flawless English? ~;)

At least flawlesser than our Dutch neighbours...

[Kralizec]

:laugh4:

[CountArach]

Austalian!

[ShadesPanther]

well since I live in the North Antrim area I sort of have a slight scottish accent instead of the horrible Belfast area accent.
But when I goto america they think I'm Scottish rather than Northen Irish but either is good for me.

[KukriKhan]

Me, I just get angry when I'm talking up a woman in the bar (in a previous life, love :) ) and some guy with a Brit accent - of any kind - stumbles in, speaks, and magnets all the females like iron filings.

Wotsa poor bloke t'do?

[Devastatin Dave]

I can do a really good Austin Powers if I don't brush my teeth for a week. Do I make you horny?

[scotchedpommes]

Another in Aberdeen? My word. Two showing up in as many days is disturbing.
However you're not blessed with the dulcet Aberdonian tones, Fwapper, and
that is a real shame.

[Fwapper]

Another in Aberdeen? My word. Two showing up in as many days is disturbing.
However you're not blessed with the dulcet Aberdonian tones, Fwapper, and
that is a real shame.
Och aye it is... ...Och I cannae think of onything else t' say...

Gosh, I can't even do a Scottish accent when I'm typing :P

Nobody has yet shed any light on the (not really) great mystery of whether Americans like British accents. Anyone feel like... shedding any light?

[The_Doctor]

I have a mild Scouse accent.

[Lorenzo_H]

My accent is a mangled cross between north American, Northern English (more Liverpool/Lancashire than anything else), Southern Enlgand (but not Devon or Cornish, or Cockney)

[ZombieFriedNuts]

My mum comes from Essex and me dad comes from the midlands and I live in Wiltshire so I should realy have a funny accent but I dont

[King Henry V]

Full on Received Pronunciation: think David Niven. Ah, the wonders of never having lived in England during my life.

[Strike For The South]

dont all of yall sound like Mary Poppins?

[Togakure]

My attempt at an English accent is contrived and pretentious.

I'm currrently trying desperately to resist the East-coast Jersey /New York accent. "Chahlie" intead of "Charlie," "wahta," instead of "water," etc.. I'm from California, where people have normal American accents ( :beam: ).

[LeftEyeNine]

I have Essex accent.

I did not see any further than the Greek part of Aegean Sea but..I believe I have Essex accent. I mean it's nice...I-..uh..

Nevermind.

:toilet:

[71-hour Ahmed]

Another in Aberdeen? My word. Two showing up in as many days is disturbing.
However you're not blessed with the dulcet Aberdonian tones, Fwapper, and
that is a real shame.

And moi makes trois!

I wouldn't call the average voice from Bucksburn or Mastrick "dulcet" by any means. I have a Scots accent but it varies in strength depending on who I'm speaking to or if I'm speaking formally.

What I want to know is; where do I go to meet all these girls who find British accents sexy? :help:

[scotchedpommes]

And moi makes trois!

I wouldn't call the average voice from Bucksburn or Mastrick "dulcet" by any means. I have a Scots accent but it varies in strength depending on who I'm speaking to or if I'm speaking formally.

What I want to know is; where do I go to meet all these girls who find British accents sexy? :help:

[Should've said two more - I was referring to yourself and Fwapper. I've
been a fairly regular participant here and had noticed you around before, but
not he.]

I'm actually from the sticks, so I'm not quite so blessed as those in Torry or
elsewhere. I have a generic 'shire accent, miinus the Doric. As for the pulling
factor, I think it applies more to the stereotypical RP English accents, doesn't it?

Although I do know one American who has a thing for the more generic, leaning
towards Weegie sound. [Can't see the appeal there, myself.] Get yourself off to
St. Louis at the earliest opportunity, Ahmed. Be sure to pack a kilt.

[Pannonian]

I have a mild Scouse accent.
Would an accent midway between Scouse and Brum be called Scum?

[Rhyfelwyr]

Coming from the Red Clydeside, I have a typical lowland Scots accent. But because of my Highland parent I can't help rolling my R's and can never say some words right. Some of my northern relatives role their R's like a machine gun. My Ulster blood mucks up some words aswell (like Ulster).

But thats a Scottish accent, not British.:wink:

SNP, SNP, SNP! Slightly ironic considering the Ulster Unionist relatives in a way, but thats a different scenario I suppose.

[Ianofsmeg16]

I have an armed forces accent

staying in no fixed place for long sorta gives a taster of all the english accents

i'm slightly drawn to south-eastern(Kent, Surrey) as i always go there and i used to live there for a looong while..

i have been told i'm slightly posh...only becuse i pronounce my words correctly (grahss, bahth etc etc)

[Bijo]

Heh heh heh. I occasionally attempt to mimic British accents and voices ranging from young man to old geezer. Not always successful it is very amusing at least, heh heh :) Sometimes my attempt is so... stupid I sound as if a cold has struck me.

Where can I find clear direct examples of accents so my attempts would possibly have more chance of success?

[Pannonian]

Heh heh heh. I occasionally attempt to mimic British accents and voices ranging from young man to old geezer. Not always successful it is very amusing at least, heh heh :) Sometimes my attempt is so... stupid I sound as if a cold has struck me.

Where can I find clear direct examples of accents so my attempts would possibly have more chance of success?
If you watch Mary Poppins, you can follow Dick Ven Doike for a spot-on impersonation of the accent from the London Borough of Mars.

[Mikeus Caesar]

When you grow up in Merseyside and then move to Yorkshire at the age of 6, it leaves you with the bizarre result of not having any accent. I sound so bland, you can't imagine it.

Maybe tomorrow i'll post a sound clip.

[The_Doctor]

Would an accent midway between Scouse and Brum be called Scum?

No, it would be called Brouse.:inquisitive:

[naut]

I used to have a cockney accent before I came to Australia.

[Strike For The South]

I want a cockney accent

[Incongruous]

A crumpet.

[InsaneApache]

I want a cockney accent

What for? Apart from Brummie it's possibly the worst accent on these isles.

[Ianofsmeg16]

What for? Apart from Brummie it's possibly the worst accent on these isles.
nu-uh!

Geordie...drunk geordie...satan's gift to the oxford english dictionary.

I wish i'd stayed in Doncaster, i love Yorkshire accents

[naut]

What for? Apart from Brummie it's possibly the worst accent on these isles.
Oi, don' be tellin' porky pies mate, it's a ruddy brillian accent innit.

[Pannonian]

What for? Apart from Brummie it's possibly the worst accent on these isles.
You prefer Scouse to London?

[InsaneApache]

nu-uh!

Geordie...drunk geordie...satan's gift to the oxford english dictionary.

I wish i'd stayed in Doncaster, i love Yorkshire accents

Come now, you know the form. Anything south of Sheffield is awful, anything north is wonderful. A Geordie accent is quite nice. The Scots tend to mangle the language a bit though.

*must keep up the Scots-English divide* :laugh4:

[Bijo]

If you watch Mary Poppins, you can follow Dick Ven Doike for a spot-on impersonation of the accent from the London Borough of Mars.
I always disliked Mary Poppins. A bit too.... I don't know, but not good at least.

[ShadesPanther]

There was a poll betwen the indian call centres about the worst accents/areas.
There are two. Northern Irish, because we talk so fast with a strange accent and the Scottish, because noone has a clue what they say anyway :beam: :laugh4:

[Fwapper]

Me, I just get angry when I'm talking up a woman in the bar (in a previous life, love :) ) and some guy with a Brit accent - of any kind - stumbles in, speaks, and magnets all the females like iron filings.

Wotsa poor bloke t'do?
Now that sounds like good news for me... :D

[Strike For The South]

The UK is so small why so many accents?

[InsaneApache]

The UK is so small why so many accents?

That's what my Yank 'Mom' said. :wink:

[Fwapper]

The UK is so small why so many accents?
Millennia of history and a big mix of different cultures, as apposed to the US, where most of the accents are derived from a relatively small number of colonists from only a few hundred years ago.

[Orb]

The UK is so small why so many accents?

Superior intelligence. Plus we need to find some grounds for insulting people from Liverpool and Scotland.

:laugh4:

[Strike For The South]

That's what my Yank 'Mom' said. :wink:

Hey I say mum and rubbish!

[Fwapper]

Superior intelligence. Plus we need to find some grounds for insulting people from Liverpool and Scotland.

And just about everywhere else in the country as well :)

[Strike For The South]

And just about everywhere else in the country as well :)

So you cant pigeon hole me? I know my english ansectors on my mums dad side came over in the 1800s from London but my mums mums side came over on the mayflower John proctor was my great x 10 grandad. GO ENGLAND!

[Fwapper]

So you cant pigeon hole me?

Um... what do you mean by that?

[InsaneApache]

So you cant pigeon hole me? I know my english ansectors on my mums dad side came over in the 1800s from London but my mums mums side came over on the mayflower John proctor was my great x 10 grandad. GO ENGLAND!

Knees ap mavver brawn, kness ap mavvar brawn...

Cocknerneys is the correct way to spell say it.

[Fwapper]

Now I'm really confused...

[naut]

Don' mind 'im 'es barkin'.

[Samurai Waki]

When I try to mimic British accents I end up sounding German. :laugh4:

My voice is just a bit too deep and rough to do it right.

[Fwapper]

Then maybe try a Scottish accent. You might end up sounding like Sean Connery, and that can only be a good thing... right?

[InsaneApache]

Yesh. :laugh4:

[macsen rufus]

My accent has become incredibly cosmopolitanised and "RP-ed" over the years. As a kid I had a broad local accent (a particular area of west Leicestershire pit communities), but it all went south (and north and all other directions) when I went off to university. It was such a melting pot, and I have a tendency to 'acquire' other accents. I went home after the first term with a broad Gloucestershire accent I'd picked up from a flatmate, quite unaware of it myself.... :embarassed: Could have been worse - I was at uni in Birmingham ~D It's a useful trait, though, when learning new languages :2thumbsup:

But now, I tend to revert to type a bit more readily, with quite clipped vowels, though I'm a midlander by origin most people think I'm from the north (which suits me just fine - I've been to the south :laugh4: )

Personally I really dislike Brummie (and associated Yam-yam and worst of all Wolverhampton) and Scouse accents, so would go with the first proposed cross above. Why is it every sentence a scouser says has to begin with "Nyerrrrrr..... "? Now Geordie I do quite like, and some Scottish but not all (Aberdeen I like, weegie less so, Western Isles quite nice etc...) Yorkshire is very appealing, but that's as much to do with a pithy turn of phrase as the accent, and some Lancastrian accents as well - Bolton in particular, but Mancunian is pretty horrid.

But you really can't beat the soft lilting tones of an Irish colleen :smitten:

[InsaneApache]

Yorkshire is very appealing, but that's as much to do with a pithy turn of phrase as the accent, and some Lancastrian accents as well - Bolton in particular, but Mancunian is pretty horrid.

Hoi. :whip: I'll have less if you don't mind. :laugh4:

[Quid]

I have an odd accent. A bit of Welsh (studying in Cardiff with mainly Welsh teachers), a bit if a northern accent from my mate (Mancunian) and some midland thing from the school I was in...(Shropshire). Plus, I probably suffer a little hint of a German accent that is only noticeable by avid listeners (of which there are probably only a handful).

Quid

[naut]

Birmingham has to be the worst accent I've ever heard.

[Fwapper]

So harsh... they can't help it. :laugh4:

[Craterus]

"I'm English. I don't have an accent. I speak how things are supposed to be said."

[Fwapper]

So you sound like a BBC anchorman?

[InsaneApache]

Moira Stewart? :inquisitive: :laugh4:

[Justiciar]

I don't rightly know. It alternates between Generic Northern, Mancunian, and the local accent which, frankly, sounds retarded. All depends on who I'm with and what I'm drinking.