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Best/Worst Accent?

BoyBrumby

BoyBrumby

Englishman
silentstriker said:
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).
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Ha, lol. All our posters from the west of the Pennines spitting their tea at the screen now. :laugh:

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

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
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. :p

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

PhoenixFire

Well-known member
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 :p
 
Shri

Shri

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The southern American accent(Texan) is hilarious/great to hear.
 
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MrPrez

MrPrez

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Did you know that many SAers can tell the difference between someone from Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, PE, East London etc? Good luck to a non-SAer though!

I basically can identify between the two obvious styles of English accent - the rough, Collingwood-style accent, and the softer, more normal Gower accent.
 
grecian

grecian

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Yeah, I'm not really sure how many Septic accents I know, texan, general southern drawl, New York, Californian teen speak, which is Oz with a Us, erm, accent. The rest is a generic yank thing for me.

Which is pretty poor considering all the US Tv and Films I've watched in my turgidly long life.
 
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grecian

grecian

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MrPrez said:
Did you know that many SAers can tell the difference between someone from Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, PE, East London etc? Good luck to a non-SAer though!

I basically can identify between the two obvious styles of English accent - the rough, Collingwood-style accent, and the softer, more normal Gower accent.
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Indeed, it's the same for every country I think, when you look at how small geographically the North-West/Midlands is in the Uk, but gawd us natives can regognize dozens of accents, all horrid though.
 
Quaggas

Quaggas

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BoyBrumby said:
Hate to be obvious, but some of his accents are miles off. His Welsh accent sounds Indian, his Scottish accent is more Ulster and, for some reason, he's doing his Scouser as a homosexual. :laugh:
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Agreed, especially when it's an accent one knows.
 
BoyBrumby

BoyBrumby

Englishman
The Australian accent's quite interesting. Most countries have their variations decided by geography, but in Oz it seems class is more important. There's the broad ocker as spoken by Steve Irwin, Paul Hogan and Tubby Taylor at one end and the more refined version that the likes of Clive James, Geoffrey Rush or Dennis Cometti speak at the other.
 
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