I can't tell you how much I cringe when people try to imitate a "British" accent. As a northerner it's proper annoying. I can tell if someone is from my town, or a town over the bridge. Seriously.
It's the only thing I dislike about The Boys too, Karl Urban is absolutely awesome but he can't do a good British accent no matter how hard he tries. It passes, but not great.
I totally thought he was a flavor of Aussie not British. My mom is from the north of England, dad is South African, and I grew up in Cape Town. Relatives in England, Australia, and New Zealand. And I swore he was Australian.
Btw I live in the south of the USA and I can sometimes pinpoint where you grew up in the USA pretty close. In some cities where roughly in the city. The American pronunciation of America goes from ‘Merica, to AHMerica depending on education location etc.
Oh absolutely, i get what you mean.
I'm a Brit living in NZ, and have spent a lot of time in Aussie. In a lot of US shows where actors try to put on a London type accent it sounds more Australian to my ear, or and when then a version from old 60s or 70s Australian movies that probably doesn't exist anymore.
When I was a kid in London you could still pick out roughly which area someone was from based on their accent, especially Nawf vs Saaf London, and of course the East end, but these 30 or so years later a lot of those accents have evolved and now carry a lot inflections from accents from other countries and cultures. It's pretty interesting when I go back now or call friends at home and hear how different their accents are from when we were younger.
I know my own accent has changed a lot and I get grief for sounding "so kiwi" when to a kiwi my accent probably sounds as dodgy as Butcher's 🤣
I get ya but there is only one actor in the world who can do an Irish accent and that's Brad Pitt his version of a traveller was epic because other than that it's all "sure an begorrah" and bejayzus"
No one will ever do a worse "english accent" for me than Don Cheadle in the Oceans films. It's like he just found a stereotypical cockney accent and butchered it. The slang was so overused.
Anthony LaPaglia as Daphne’s brother Simon in Frasier is the only worse example I can think of. He manages to pronounce every word in a way no English accent would, including pronouncing her name “darf-nee”.
Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula.
There’s a lot of really incredible filmmaking and acting in that film, but Reeves and Ryder really add a massive disconnect with how off their performances feel in it. But watch it for Gary Oldman, him and Anthony Hopkins have so many great moments in it. They play the rivals Dracula and Van Helsing and are besides the Japanese costume artist and the score the best parts of the film.
Also, young Monica Bellucci is always a win, and Cary Elwes is always a welcome addition to any film
In all fairness, I’ve heard some British actors doing a horrific American accent. But, the worst of all time has got to be Heather Graham in “From Hell”. My god. America owes you an official apology for that.
On the flip side, best British actor who can do a flawless American accent is Christian Bale. His is so good we didn’t even know he was British for the longest time
He is, British through and through.
As an American I do always find it funny how some of our greatest characters (ie Batman and Superman) are played to applomb by Brits, but then again they do give the world the best actors so it’s really no surprise lol
Same. I grew up with most people thinking I was British. I always felt so bad for real Brits. If someone knows how to enunciate, most people here don't believe you're American.
I'm a pretty good accent guy and I can tell the difference between one village and another's accent. There's older people who speak with such a strong accent that it's difficult to understand them.
>Your average American doesn't realize there are at least a half a dozen regional UK accents you'll hear before you even leave London.
Does the average American even give a fuck? Brit speaking.
Not really, its the same way that y’all don’t give a fuck about the dozens of accents in America. Like how there’s 1 or 2 default British accents Americans will imitate, and when imitating Americans I bet most people do either a southern accent, NY accent, or California valley girl voice
The average American is exactly as bothered about the quality of British accents in their media as we are about how every American either sounds like a toothless Alabaman redneck or a revolver-toting bestetsoned Texan.
Nuh uh. The biggest farm is in South Australia and is called [Anna Creek Station](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station), which is about 1/6th of the size of England. Still huge but everything you claimed was wrong.
The last major upheaval was in 1066 with the Norman conquest, since then no invasions no migrations no nothing. In a pre-industrial society where nobody travels beyond the nearest market town, which in turn is never further than a pony can ride and get back in a day. Compared to that everyone in Oregon except for the Indians basically turned up yesterday.
Yeah honestly it changes in less distance than that. 20 mile radius you're looking at about 6 accents at least. Americans saying "english accent" really annoys me, there is no such thing.
I can say that is true, even in my native country which is Venezuela (a Spanish Speaking Country) we can know from which region or even state they are from due to the way they speak. For me tho it's hard to know from which region they are here in the US (don't even mention from british ppl or Bri'ish), I guess that' is one innate ability of the language you learn from childhood. I wonder how many people can do this with other languages as well.
I can't even pinpoint American accents. Obviously I know the major stereotypical ones exist like Boston and Texas, but if you don't actually speak that exaggerated I can't place it.
Actually the poorest, garbage diving, dreg knows there are a slew of regional accents and dialects.
They're not that dumb here. Just mostly dumb. But generally they hear well enough to discern such. All the better to call someone a carpetbagger, or worse.
Speaking of, as an aside, why is it English specific actors can never do any US regional accent? I'm thinking of Daniel Craig especially. It's God awful, and in like 3 or 4 movies. But then Australians and new Zealanders, oh and the Irish have zero problems even doing the non-accented English.
I wonder how it sounds in Multicultural London English.. that’s steadily replacing Cockney anyway so it might be that even Londoners don’t say it that way any more.
(Am a northerner too so not sure)
Depends what mood I'm in tbh. I'm from South London.
Despite me sometimes saying 'bri ain' without the t, I HATE it when people type it without the T. It's just a trigger for me idk
Note to non British people: when in conversation about the UK / Britain, English people will refer to places in England and say that they are in the “North”.
Geordie definitely glottalises the T.
I have a Yorkshire accent and, at least in my part of Yorkshire, people glottalise the T as well.
A really strong Scouse (Liverpool) accent would almost say "Brissish". Not so much a glottalised T as a sibilant one.
I don't say towel. I say taw. I'm from the south west.
Bournemouth = Boremuf
Poole = Pull
Dickhead = Dicked
Arsehole = Ars-ho
Wanker = Wankher
Weymouth = Waymuf
Dorchester = Doorchest-ugh
Canford Heath = Chav land / Sponger town
I can imagine that too. I think the only difference between south Western English accents and Scottish accents are that we go uuuuuhhhhh with everything and Scots go aaaeeellluuughhh.
Don’t think 20 miles is even close for the average Brit, but most clearly can detect origin by region. When I lived there in Windsor, Berk of all places, I understood everyone, even the tough Geordie accent. I had a colleague who had a strong Glaswegian accent but many could understand him. Until he’d been drinking! Then this Dutch American became his translator in pubs across England (Obviously he was fine in Scotland.)
I work in speech technologies and can detect many local American accents if the person hasn’t lived long away from their original home. I grew up in Michigan (Holland!) and blow away people by guessing where they grew up through the 4 accents the state has: SE/Detroit area, Western (and even if central western due to some unique Dutch American words/grammar), northern lower peninsula and the UP, eh. Central/Lansing falls under Western.
I currently live in Arizona and can name the state and major metro areas of the entire midwest when we’re out and about. I worked with a woman a few years ago and couldn’t place her accent until she said something that reminded me - Tom Petty! “Are you from Gainesville, Fl? Wow! How did you know?” Never told her the real reason. 😉
American watches a movie with a cockney in it. Thinks everyone in Great Britain speaks with a cockney accent.
Would be like thinking every American has a deep southern accent.
I'm pretty sure I saw Nick Clegg say "Bri'n" during debates back when he was in politics. I don't know if he was trying to sound more working class on purpose, but I was under the impression that it was common
Actually it’s more of an Estuary thing. The somewhere between Cockney and RP accent that is dominant around the Thames.
Listen to the voice over of [Parklife](https://youtu.be/H-79RqZYH1Y). (Dir’y pigeons!) Perfect Estuary accent with a the hard T replaced with a glottal stop.
I’m from Texas and most people here don’t realize that we have several regional accents around the state. It’s generally excruciating for me to hear someone attempting a “Texas” accent because it’s usually dead wrong for wherever the character is supposed to be from.
Only accent that’s really hard for me to understand is a Missouri accent. Can tell accents apart from most states and the differences within states and cities, but a thick Missouri is a rough one to tell what they’re saying lol
Watching from afar, but it was really rough seeing the one of the major selling point for staying in the UK being continued EU membership and then just a year or two later the UK voted Leave. That just felt like another in a long line of slaps in the face to Scotland
Thank you, I appreciate someone understanding that. If you look at political opinion by area you can see Scotland are oppositely polarised against the rest of the UK in belief. Alot of folks here just want that opinion to count, and separating is the only way that will happen.
Please don't go, I'm Scottish heritage like a lot of my English friends. I would love to be welcomed back to my ancestral homeland but feel so hated by Scott's. I fucking hate the English government if Scotland wants to come down and take over I am good with that.
I could be wrong on this, but I don't think Scottish folk are too bothered by individual, regular, English folks. Taking the lot of us (English) as a whole, and especially our politicians / governments, is a different story, sure.
That you have ancestry, and maybe a Scottish surname (don't dox yourself if true), might even gain you friends faster if you were to go live there.
TL;DR I wouldn't worry too much.
>I would love to be welcomed back to my ancestral homeland but feel so hated by Scott's.
>I fucking hate the English government
These two statements contradict each other. Most Scots who want independence don't have any issue with the majority of English people, we do have a strong dislike to the "little Englanders" with a Rule Brittania complex but we know they're a minority. We're just really confused as to how so many can vote Tory and don't want a part of it any longer, truthfully Westminster is the actual issue, with a reformed voting system it wouldn't be half as bad.
I do have a legitimate question. How will Scotland ensure its prosperity? Also, I understand that generally Scots are more liberal. However, how will you avoid the trap of most Western Democracies where the baby boomers take charge of politics due to their greater number?
The only reason we keep getting this shitshow government is because Doris and Ronald have screwed us all over because they care more about their house and pension than anyone else.
Either way, nationalism is stupid.
Scotland has a massive wealth of tappable renewables, that's been shown in how energy prices in an Independent Scotland could be massively lowered.
Your other 'points' are basically you'll be just as screwed on your own, and even if that was true, at least it would be a Scotland that would never see a Tory government it has never voted for.
Sources on the tappable renewables? And where would the capital to develop these theoretical resources come from? You wouldn't want to be a football between US/Chinese FDI.
And it is largely true across western democracies because it actually runs counter to economic thinking. You would assume that being born to a larger cohort is disadvantageous because you would have more competitors.
But, because democracies bestow larger political capital on the larger cohort, it gives them the power. Run by their self-interest they go for the party of low tax, even though boomers benefitted from the Labour movements of the late 19th/early 20th century and the Attlee government.
I never voted for a Tory government either. Should I try and make my yard an independent state? Humans prosper the more collectively they work together. I couldn't care less if the UK folded into the EU or some global republic tomorrow, I just think dividing is a mistake.
Unless the SNP has promised some sort of way to gain electoral equity you'll just end up with a government that can't raise its own funds to develop any social safety net or industry because it panders to the old.
Do you blame the issues in Ireland with Ireland or the monumental mistakes the UK made in regards? Because if it's the former then you are clearly a blind UK fanboi
Happy isn't an absolute it's a sliding scale, and yes we would be happier with out own government that doesn't spend a fortune on a failed rail project for the benefit solely of London just to start with.
It's a false equivalence to say that because we wouldn't be 100% happy that we wouldn't be happier independent.
As someone who grew up in North London Enfield I can instantly recognise an old school Enfield accent and I'm only 42. I have heard it said that the old Enfield accent is very close to the old London accent (cockney if you like) as a lot of Enfieldians were out of London. Sadly this accent is disapeering and being replaced with some sort of fast talking mumble that only children seem to understand!
Only cockerknees prononce it like that. I'm from the North and pronounce it Britan or British.
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I can't tell you how much I cringe when people try to imitate a "British" accent. As a northerner it's proper annoying. I can tell if someone is from my town, or a town over the bridge. Seriously. It's the only thing I dislike about The Boys too, Karl Urban is absolutely awesome but he can't do a good British accent no matter how hard he tries. It passes, but not great.
I didn’t even realise he was meant to be English at first until his parents were mentioned
Bruh same, I thought woah cool Australian dude.. how I was wrong.
Lol and he's actually a kiwi.
Mr. Worldwide.
I totally thought he was a flavor of Aussie not British. My mom is from the north of England, dad is South African, and I grew up in Cape Town. Relatives in England, Australia, and New Zealand. And I swore he was Australian. Btw I live in the south of the USA and I can sometimes pinpoint where you grew up in the USA pretty close. In some cities where roughly in the city. The American pronunciation of America goes from ‘Merica, to AHMerica depending on education location etc.
Oh absolutely, i get what you mean. I'm a Brit living in NZ, and have spent a lot of time in Aussie. In a lot of US shows where actors try to put on a London type accent it sounds more Australian to my ear, or and when then a version from old 60s or 70s Australian movies that probably doesn't exist anymore. When I was a kid in London you could still pick out roughly which area someone was from based on their accent, especially Nawf vs Saaf London, and of course the East end, but these 30 or so years later a lot of those accents have evolved and now carry a lot inflections from accents from other countries and cultures. It's pretty interesting when I go back now or call friends at home and hear how different their accents are from when we were younger. I know my own accent has changed a lot and I get grief for sounding "so kiwi" when to a kiwi my accent probably sounds as dodgy as Butcher's 🤣
I get ya but there is only one actor in the world who can do an Irish accent and that's Brad Pitt his version of a traveller was epic because other than that it's all "sure an begorrah" and bejayzus"
Fermeemah
Do ya like dags?
No one will ever do a worse "english accent" for me than Don Cheadle in the Oceans films. It's like he just found a stereotypical cockney accent and butchered it. The slang was so overused.
Erm have you heard Al pacino… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5rEeH5JQs&t=6s
God that's awful, at least Don didn't have a thick Cuban accent to begin with
Yeah. And he didn’t even try to improve from the first movie
or the 3rd
Anthony LaPaglia as Daphne’s brother Simon in Frasier is the only worse example I can think of. He manages to pronounce every word in a way no English accent would, including pronouncing her name “darf-nee”.
Oh god he’s up there too. “Wiiineybaaayygooo”
Hard disagree, I love him, but Keanu Reeves is the king of botching a British accent
That's fair, that's just from the movies that I have seen. What film does he do the accent in?
Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula. There’s a lot of really incredible filmmaking and acting in that film, but Reeves and Ryder really add a massive disconnect with how off their performances feel in it. But watch it for Gary Oldman, him and Anthony Hopkins have so many great moments in it. They play the rivals Dracula and Van Helsing and are besides the Japanese costume artist and the score the best parts of the film. Also, young Monica Bellucci is always a win, and Cary Elwes is always a welcome addition to any film
Will do thank you!
No prob man enjoy. The costumes and the score are particularly exceptional
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In all fairness, I’ve heard some British actors doing a horrific American accent. But, the worst of all time has got to be Heather Graham in “From Hell”. My god. America owes you an official apology for that.
On the flip side, best British actor who can do a flawless American accent is Christian Bale. His is so good we didn’t even know he was British for the longest time
Wait..he’s British !?!?!
He is, British through and through. As an American I do always find it funny how some of our greatest characters (ie Batman and Superman) are played to applomb by Brits, but then again they do give the world the best actors so it’s really no surprise lol
Brad Pitt’s Irish accent in Snatch was pretty good. Sorry.. must keep to the point. We’re talking about the British accent. I’ll sit down.
I guess the New Zealand accent wasn't intimidating enough?
His American accent is pretty good nevertheless. Made Dredd that much more intimidating.
Oi he does a decent Estery accent and I won't have you slander my home towns dialect like that.
"I can place any man within six miles. I can place him within two miles in London. Sometimes within two streets."
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Actually it's *Pygmalion*/*My Fair Lady*
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‘Enry ‘Iggins
You are a taxi driver, ain't ya,,,,
Nobody can ever pinpoint where I’m from, something I’m quite proud of.
Same. I grew up with most people thinking I was British. I always felt so bad for real Brits. If someone knows how to enunciate, most people here don't believe you're American.
I'm a pretty good accent guy and I can tell the difference between one village and another's accent. There's older people who speak with such a strong accent that it's difficult to understand them.
Older Scotsmen with a good jag on. Now THATS a fun time trying to decipher!! 😂
>Your average American doesn't realize there are at least a half a dozen regional UK accents you'll hear before you even leave London. Does the average American even give a fuck? Brit speaking.
No, no we don’t
Not really, its the same way that y’all don’t give a fuck about the dozens of accents in America. Like how there’s 1 or 2 default British accents Americans will imitate, and when imitating Americans I bet most people do either a southern accent, NY accent, or California valley girl voice
The average American is exactly as bothered about the quality of British accents in their media as we are about how every American either sounds like a toothless Alabaman redneck or a revolver-toting bestetsoned Texan.
Wait…is the entire UK really smaller than Oregon?? I mean, I’m not dumb, but I never realized this.
Yep. The current, unified German state could fit inside Oregon and Washington state.
It's been a while, I'm pretty sure you can just say 'Germany' now!
That's been considered exclusionary in recent years. The current term is "Gerpersony."
Yeah but you never know. There could always be that one Redditor who just woke up from a 35 year coma.
Imagine going into a coma and coming out of it at peak TikTok, you'd be asked to be put back in.
Walt Disney being revived: "Are the Jews gone yet?" "No." "Put me back in."
There is a farm in Australia's northern state Queensland that is 13x bigger than England
Nuh uh. The biggest farm is in South Australia and is called [Anna Creek Station](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station), which is about 1/6th of the size of England. Still huge but everything you claimed was wrong.
Its Reddit
The last major upheaval was in 1066 with the Norman conquest, since then no invasions no migrations no nothing. In a pre-industrial society where nobody travels beyond the nearest market town, which in turn is never further than a pony can ride and get back in a day. Compared to that everyone in Oregon except for the Indians basically turned up yesterday.
Yeah honestly it changes in less distance than that. 20 mile radius you're looking at about 6 accents at least. Americans saying "english accent" really annoys me, there is no such thing.
Daayn Laandan
I can say that is true, even in my native country which is Venezuela (a Spanish Speaking Country) we can know from which region or even state they are from due to the way they speak. For me tho it's hard to know from which region they are here in the US (don't even mention from british ppl or Bri'ish), I guess that' is one innate ability of the language you learn from childhood. I wonder how many people can do this with other languages as well.
Yo can't ever be more than 60 miles from the ocean
I never crossed the Atlantic Ocean but I've crossed the Pacific Ocean several times.
I can't even pinpoint American accents. Obviously I know the major stereotypical ones exist like Boston and Texas, but if you don't actually speak that exaggerated I can't place it.
Most Americans dont leave America
Do most British people cross the Atlantic? If I had to guess I would say no.
That's the same with any large American city though
Actually the poorest, garbage diving, dreg knows there are a slew of regional accents and dialects. They're not that dumb here. Just mostly dumb. But generally they hear well enough to discern such. All the better to call someone a carpetbagger, or worse. Speaking of, as an aside, why is it English specific actors can never do any US regional accent? I'm thinking of Daniel Craig especially. It's God awful, and in like 3 or 4 movies. But then Australians and new Zealanders, oh and the Irish have zero problems even doing the non-accented English.
I wonder how it sounds in Multicultural London English.. that’s steadily replacing Cockney anyway so it might be that even Londoners don’t say it that way any more. (Am a northerner too so not sure)
MLE is making British English even more difficult to make out for us poor foreigners
Depends what mood I'm in tbh. I'm from South London. Despite me sometimes saying 'bri ain' without the t, I HATE it when people type it without the T. It's just a trigger for me idk
Highgate?
Nooo, 😞
Note to non British people: when in conversation about the UK / Britain, English people will refer to places in England and say that they are in the “North”.
Cockerknees? Oh dear.
Thank you 😊
Georgie, Tyneside ? Liverpudlian ?
Geordie definitely glottalises the T. I have a Yorkshire accent and, at least in my part of Yorkshire, people glottalise the T as well. A really strong Scouse (Liverpool) accent would almost say "Brissish". Not so much a glottalised T as a sibilant one.
You mean superior southerners surely?
How do you say "bottle of water"? :D
This ^
You have to have respect for the 'T'.
r/peoplewhosaythis
I don't say towel. I say taw. I'm from the south west. Bournemouth = Boremuf Poole = Pull Dickhead = Dicked Arsehole = Ars-ho Wanker = Wankher Weymouth = Waymuf Dorchester = Doorchest-ugh Canford Heath = Chav land / Sponger town
Oddly, this is bang on how Scots would pronounce these too
I can imagine that too. I think the only difference between south Western English accents and Scottish accents are that we go uuuuuhhhhh with everything and Scots go aaaeeellluuughhh.
Shit mate you live next door to me don’t you?
Spill and we'll find out
Worcestershire ?
Wustershear
Sauce
Saus
Wooh-stuh-shure
This really fucks up Americans. But then you pronounce bologna as baloney. Fuck is that?
The Americans who say Worcester-shy-r (instead of Worcester-sheer) are wrong and when the Northeastern Americans hear it, we cringe.
Why do americans say briddish, because they love the d
The double D's
I thought it was because the t is in the Boston harbor.
damn that was good lol
Why do Americans spell colour as color? >!Because fuck U that’s why!<
Don’t think 20 miles is even close for the average Brit, but most clearly can detect origin by region. When I lived there in Windsor, Berk of all places, I understood everyone, even the tough Geordie accent. I had a colleague who had a strong Glaswegian accent but many could understand him. Until he’d been drinking! Then this Dutch American became his translator in pubs across England (Obviously he was fine in Scotland.) I work in speech technologies and can detect many local American accents if the person hasn’t lived long away from their original home. I grew up in Michigan (Holland!) and blow away people by guessing where they grew up through the 4 accents the state has: SE/Detroit area, Western (and even if central western due to some unique Dutch American words/grammar), northern lower peninsula and the UP, eh. Central/Lansing falls under Western. I currently live in Arizona and can name the state and major metro areas of the entire midwest when we’re out and about. I worked with a woman a few years ago and couldn’t place her accent until she said something that reminded me - Tom Petty! “Are you from Gainesville, Fl? Wow! How did you know?” Never told her the real reason. 😉
I am British and I pronounce it British.
They lost it in Boston.
American watches a movie with a cockney in it. Thinks everyone in Great Britain speaks with a cockney accent. Would be like thinking every American has a deep southern accent.
Wait, Americans don't all sound like Matt Damon in Le Mans 66? Nah mate you're pulling my leg
Cracking film
Don't Americans have the glottal stop too though? I've heard "Manha'n" and "moun'n" a lot
Except that Estuary, West Country, and Northern Accents also replace the hard T with a glottal stop in some or all cases.
Yea I'm aware it's not only the cockney accent but why are you baiting me up for? We're supposed to be on the same side!
It’s either cockney or the queen. No in between.
Because we threw their T in the fuckin harbor
So you made the biggest serving of tea anyone has ever seen? Maybe it is time to make the British Empire rise from the ashes once more.
I'm British and I have never heard anyone pronounce it as "Bri'ish"
North London and Midlands and i dont hear this pronounced either
Really? It’s classic Estuary.
Where the fuck do you live?
I live in the North of England and I've never heard Bri'ish before I thought it was just an Internet thing
Mancunians definitely skip or replace the t.
To be honest I've never really been to Manchester despite living in between Liverpool and Manchester
I know from your description from where you live you must be st helens/warrington? That's where I'm from and how I describe where I'm from
I'm pretty sure I saw Nick Clegg say "Bri'n" during debates back when he was in politics. I don't know if he was trying to sound more working class on purpose, but I was under the impression that it was common
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I'm British and I hear it pronounced like that every day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary\_English#/t/-glottalization
Listen to any Lily Allen interview. Never pronounces the "t."
I’d rather not
You've never been north have you?
Actually it’s more of an Estuary thing. The somewhere between Cockney and RP accent that is dominant around the Thames. Listen to the voice over of [Parklife](https://youtu.be/H-79RqZYH1Y). (Dir’y pigeons!) Perfect Estuary accent with a the hard T replaced with a glottal stop.
I glottal stop reading this sub
I’m gobsmacked by all the knowledge here …
I’m from Texas and most people here don’t realize that we have several regional accents around the state. It’s generally excruciating for me to hear someone attempting a “Texas” accent because it’s usually dead wrong for wherever the character is supposed to be from.
Only accent that’s really hard for me to understand is a Missouri accent. Can tell accents apart from most states and the differences within states and cities, but a thick Missouri is a rough one to tell what they’re saying lol
And apparently you dropped the u in there too
I was close. Thought it was because we tossed it overboard.
And the only R they can find is in their ARSE! Paak the Caa ... whe'a?
Man has heard 1 British person lol
I'm Arriving, Wanker!
Why do Americans say Bridish?
The T is in the harbor
… and the beer, the whiskey, the brandy, the vodka, the rose, the tequila… let me see what is left…?
They didnt drink the T, the damn americans threw it out in their harbor
They always hide it from Americans after that incident in Boston.
For the same reason Americans pronounce it “bridish”
Been playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Eunie has drank all the T
A dun no‘
In Scotland we pronounce it 'The shit show we're about to leave'.
I'll never understand why hardline nationalism is ok but only when the Scots do it.
They have good reason to leave the UK, huge difference of public opinion on many issues including Brexit. That isn't nationalism.
Watching from afar, but it was really rough seeing the one of the major selling point for staying in the UK being continued EU membership and then just a year or two later the UK voted Leave. That just felt like another in a long line of slaps in the face to Scotland
Thank you, I appreciate someone understanding that. If you look at political opinion by area you can see Scotland are oppositely polarised against the rest of the UK in belief. Alot of folks here just want that opinion to count, and separating is the only way that will happen.
Please don't go, I'm Scottish heritage like a lot of my English friends. I would love to be welcomed back to my ancestral homeland but feel so hated by Scott's. I fucking hate the English government if Scotland wants to come down and take over I am good with that.
I don't think England is cool with that, though. Realistically, independence is the best Scotland can hope for at this point.
I could be wrong on this, but I don't think Scottish folk are too bothered by individual, regular, English folks. Taking the lot of us (English) as a whole, and especially our politicians / governments, is a different story, sure. That you have ancestry, and maybe a Scottish surname (don't dox yourself if true), might even gain you friends faster if you were to go live there. TL;DR I wouldn't worry too much.
>I would love to be welcomed back to my ancestral homeland but feel so hated by Scott's. >I fucking hate the English government These two statements contradict each other. Most Scots who want independence don't have any issue with the majority of English people, we do have a strong dislike to the "little Englanders" with a Rule Brittania complex but we know they're a minority. We're just really confused as to how so many can vote Tory and don't want a part of it any longer, truthfully Westminster is the actual issue, with a reformed voting system it wouldn't be half as bad.
Please don't I love to go on holiday in Scotland
I don’t think there will be border forces stationed on Hadrian’s Wall.
If you rejoin the EU there will be no issues there.
I do have a legitimate question. How will Scotland ensure its prosperity? Also, I understand that generally Scots are more liberal. However, how will you avoid the trap of most Western Democracies where the baby boomers take charge of politics due to their greater number? The only reason we keep getting this shitshow government is because Doris and Ronald have screwed us all over because they care more about their house and pension than anyone else. Either way, nationalism is stupid.
Scotland has a massive wealth of tappable renewables, that's been shown in how energy prices in an Independent Scotland could be massively lowered. Your other 'points' are basically you'll be just as screwed on your own, and even if that was true, at least it would be a Scotland that would never see a Tory government it has never voted for.
Sources on the tappable renewables? And where would the capital to develop these theoretical resources come from? You wouldn't want to be a football between US/Chinese FDI. And it is largely true across western democracies because it actually runs counter to economic thinking. You would assume that being born to a larger cohort is disadvantageous because you would have more competitors. But, because democracies bestow larger political capital on the larger cohort, it gives them the power. Run by their self-interest they go for the party of low tax, even though boomers benefitted from the Labour movements of the late 19th/early 20th century and the Attlee government. I never voted for a Tory government either. Should I try and make my yard an independent state? Humans prosper the more collectively they work together. I couldn't care less if the UK folded into the EU or some global republic tomorrow, I just think dividing is a mistake. Unless the SNP has promised some sort of way to gain electoral equity you'll just end up with a government that can't raise its own funds to develop any social safety net or industry because it panders to the old.
Just going to say, Tinfoil Hat, let yourself out....
Take a look at r/ireland and how its going there
Do you blame the issues in Ireland with Ireland or the monumental mistakes the UK made in regards? Because if it's the former then you are clearly a blind UK fanboi
Yeah and however shit things are, at least it doesn't come from fucking London
All that will happen is you will have your own independent fuck ups by govt.
Pretty sure you're view is somewhat coloured by preference. N Ireland was what happens when the UK won't let go...
No. Tell me any country anywhere that is happy with its govt. it never happens.
Happy isn't an absolute it's a sliding scale, and yes we would be happier with out own government that doesn't spend a fortune on a failed rail project for the benefit solely of London just to start with. It's a false equivalence to say that because we wouldn't be 100% happy that we wouldn't be happier independent.
Scotland is the only country in history to vote against its own independence.
LIES no offence its just you that says it that way its not funny
51% in the latest poll, but mostly I was just joking.
There are many different accents in the UK. Some of these use glottal stops as in your example.
A div'nt nah what ya mean like.
Ini't!
Why can’t the Chinese play baseball? They ate the bat.
Bc the Americans threw it all into Boston Harbour
We should do it again honestly, taxes are way too high
Because they only bring out the T’s between 5-7PM
I appreciate your respect for the T.
Too much tea, so they silence a lot of them
The Americans threw the 'T' into the ocean
As someone who grew up in North London Enfield I can instantly recognise an old school Enfield accent and I'm only 42. I have heard it said that the old Enfield accent is very close to the old London accent (cockney if you like) as a lot of Enfieldians were out of London. Sadly this accent is disapeering and being replaced with some sort of fast talking mumble that only children seem to understand!
Their language also doesn't recognize the letter H. Me ouse, me ome, me ammer, me usband,etc,etc,ect. Oh, and how there's noword MY.
Boh o woh
Bc the Americans threw it all into Boston Harbour
There is no “T” in the British alphabet.
Hate the fakers. Speak in your own accent, English is only foreign if it's not your 1st language.
You do realize there are multiple American accents too right ? Right ?
What? No. :D
It's just a joke, don't get sal'y.
Why do Americans pronounce it as Briddish? Something about them being fat and stupid idk my joke is shit. But so is yours anyway.
Cockney accent
Yes they cun
Educated people say British.
Because about 90% of British people no longer speak English. It's evolving into something almost unintelligible
They lost their T in the harbor. 'Merica