I want a cockney accent
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I want a cockney accent
A crumpet.
What for? Apart from Brummie it's possibly the worst accent on these isles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Strike For The South
nu-uh!Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Geordie...drunk geordie...satan's gift to the oxford english dictionary.
I wish i'd stayed in Doncaster, i love Yorkshire accents
Oi, don' be tellin' porky pies mate, it's a ruddy brillian accent innit.Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
You prefer Scouse to London?Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ianofsmeg16
*must keep up the Scots-English divide* :laugh4:
I always disliked Mary Poppins. A bit too.... I don't know, but not good at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pannonian
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:
Now that sounds like good news for me... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
The UK is so small why so many accents?
That's what my Yank 'Mom' said. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Strike For The South
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Strike For The South
Superior intelligence. Plus we need to find some grounds for insulting people from Liverpool and Scotland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Strike For The South
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Hey I say mum and rubbish!Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
And just about everywhere else in the country as well :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Orb
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Fwapper
Um... what do you mean by that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Strike For The South
Knees ap mavver brawn, kness ap mavvar brawn...Quote:
Originally Posted by Strike For The South
Cocknerneys is the correct way tospellsay it.
Now I'm really confused...
Don' mind 'im 'es barkin'.
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.
Then maybe try a Scottish accent. You might end up sounding like Sean Connery, and that can only be a good thing... right?
Yesh. :laugh4:
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:
Hoi. :whip: I'll have less if you don't mind. :laugh4:Quote:
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.
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).
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Birmingham has to be the worst accent I've ever heard.
So harsh... they can't help it. :laugh4:
"I'm English. I don't have an accent. I speak how things are supposed to be said."