Best/Worst Accent? - Page 3

silentstriker · 30-12-2011, 10:17 AM

Interestingly listening to that video, I would have just said that it's the 'English accent' (yes I know there's no such thing as a uniform accent but that's what I think of when someone says 'English' accent).

Uppercut · 30-12-2011, 10:38 AM

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Best.

interview with millen eve - true yorkshire accent! - YouTube

obv.

tha's well cute tha' is

MrPrez · 30-12-2011, 10:46 AM

English accent like on the girl in Transformers 3 is really, really hot.

Worst are Aussie cricketers, they seem to have a nasty sneering tone about them (think Ponting).

PhoenixFire · 30-12-2011, 10:46 AM

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen - YouTube

this is brilliant but the yorkshire accents are awful haha.

smalishah84 · 30-12-2011, 10:48 AM

some of the news anchors on BBC had great accents. Nic Gowing was one guy who spoke in a marvelous accent (is that what they call the King's English???). David Gower too speaks in a great way I think.

BoyBrumby · 30-12-2011, 10:52 AM

One thing most people get wrong with the Yorkshire accent is using t' for "the". Real Yorkshire folk don't use the definite article at all. They say "Ah'm gurn up rurd" not "Ah'm gurn up t' rurd".

silentstriker · 30-12-2011, 10:55 AM

Listening to that accent - saying monkeh instead of monkey sounds so much better.

BoyBrumby · 30-12-2011, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by silentstriker

Interestingly listening to that video, I would have just said that it's the 'English accent' (yes I know there's no such thing as a uniform accent but that's what I think of when someone says 'English' accent).

Interesting. When you hear (say) Bumble and Nasser speak you must be able to hear the difference in their accents tho, surely?

MrPrez · 30-12-2011, 11:10 AM

I can identify a scouser accent (which I often confuse with scottish) and a "standard" english accent.

silentstriker · 30-12-2011, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Interesting. When you hear (say) Bumble and Nasser speak you must be able to hear the difference in their accents tho, surely?

Yes, when they are speaking together, I can tell the difference though for the longest time I thought they were the same accent, except one was merely 'stronger'. Having listened for much longer now, I can now probably differentiate between at least 3-4 different English accents. However, if someone says 'English accent', the first one that comes to mind is definitely the one in the video (e.g a pretty strong Bumble-esque Yorkshire accent).

BoyBrumby · 30-12-2011, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by silentstriker

Yes, when they are speaking together, I can tell the difference though for the longest time I thought they were the same accent, except one was merely 'stronger'. Having listened for much longer now, I can now probably differentiate between at least 3-4 different English accents. However, if someone says 'English accent', the first one that comes to mind is definitely the one in the video (e.g a pretty strong Bumble-esque Yorkshire accent).

Ha, lol. All our posters from the west of the Pennines spitting their tea at the screen now.

What you say is fair enough tho, there's nothing to say that Sean Bean's accent is less English than Hugh Grant's.

silentstriker · 30-12-2011, 11:23 AM

Wait, Bumble doesn't have a Yorkshire accent?

BoyBrumby · 30-12-2011, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by silentstriker

Wait, Bumble doesn't have a Yorkshire accent?

Nope. His is a bucolic Lancastrian accent, a more rural version of (say) Flintoff's.

Boycott is archetypal Yorkshire.

silentstriker · 30-12-2011, 11:29 AM

Well there you go. I withdraw my claim about being able to differentiate 3-4 accents: I seriously thought Bumble and that girl in the video had the same accent.

Then I guess it's the stereotypical Lancashire accent I'm thinking when I think about 'English' accents.

PhoenixFire · 30-12-2011, 11:34 AM

Obviously it's pretty easy for us to tell the difference between a Yorkshire and a Lancashire accent, but I can imagine it's not so easy at all for someone who hasn't lived in the UK. Would be like us trying to tell the difference between the Seattle and Boston accent.

Still, calling Bumble a Yorkshireman is ****ing heresy

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BoyBrumby Englishman Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Doing the stance Posts: 42,619	One thing most people get wrong with the Yorkshire accent is using t' for "the". Real Yorkshire folk don't use the definite article at all. They say "Ah'm gurn up rurd" not "Ah'm gurn up t' rurd". __________________ *- As featured in The Independent.* "This is not the time for namby-pamby promising youngsters who might just do something; not the time for building for the future. Pragmatism rules and they don't come more pragmatic than Rogers." - Victor Marks makes the case for stiff-legged and stiff-armed 35 year old left-handers in Ashes squads

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30-12-2011, 10:55 AM	#37 (permalink)
silentstriker The Wheel is Forever Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: USA Posts: 36,502	Listening to that accent - saying monkeh instead of monkey sounds so much better.

30-12-2011, 11:10 AM	#39 (permalink)
MrPrez First Class Debutant Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: South Africa Posts: 899	I can identify a scouser accent (which I often confuse with scottish) and a "standard" english accent.

30-12-2011, 11:23 AM	#42 (permalink)
silentstriker The Wheel is Forever Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: USA Posts: 36,502	Wait, Bumble doesn't have a Yorkshire accent?

30-12-2011, 11:29 AM	#44 (permalink)
silentstriker The Wheel is Forever Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: USA Posts: 36,502	Well there you go. I withdraw my claim about being able to differentiate 3-4 accents: I seriously thought Bumble and that girl in the video had the same accent. Then I guess it's the stereotypical Lancashire accent I'm thinking when I think about 'English' accents.

30-12-2011, 11:34 AM	#45 (permalink)
PhoenixFire International Coach Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Bitch please, I'm from West Yorkshire Posts: 14,986	Obviously it's pretty easy for us to tell the difference between a Yorkshire and a Lancashire accent, but I can imagine it's not so easy at all for someone who hasn't lived in the UK. Would be like us trying to tell the difference between the Seattle and Boston accent. Still, calling Bumble a Yorkshireman is ****ing heresy

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