Posted on 09/01/2018 2:56:09 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
As you go farther south into Salem, Cumberland, Atlantic and Cape May counties, the accent comes closer to the Ozarks than anywhere else.
I’ll watch some reruns of Minder.
Lived there for a number of years and love the regional accents and individual slang. Hubby is a Brit and can call the region sometimes better than he.
When I came back.....people said I had a bit of an accent but that went away pretty quickly. It’s just what you hear all the time.
My time in the Army trained my ear to various accents from the military mixing bowl. One of my best friends was from Boston with typical “pahk the cah” accent which was somewhat jarring as my name has a hard “r” that he just couldn’t do, I had a couple guys from Philly with the “youse guys” accent. Of course, there were plenty of the variations of a Southern accent that were interesting to try to place.
After the military, I was involved in the construction industry because the manufacturing company I worked at sold our products to be installed in new construction. I spoke to jobsite superintendents on a regular basis. I could almost always depend on encountering a Cajun accent when the jobsite was anywhere on the Gulf Coast, from Houston to the east.
In another construction/manufacturing job, the company made cabinetry and store fixtures for a NYC fashion house that were put into high-end department stores. The store planning staff in NYC were either from NJ or Lawn-Guyland and both accents were jarring to my Southern ears. Throw in that they just couldn’t be satisfied and I didn’t last long in that job.
I think this world is near the metaphysical edge...the end is very close.
But, that seems to make me all the more appreciative of all these quaint little human details that are about to disappear.
Savor them for the moment...for in a moment they will be gone forever.
Love those British detective shows as well. But so often we turn to each other and ask, “What did he just say?”
When are the British going to learn to speak correct English? Like us.
My attempts at any British Isles accent slides into a terrible southern mixed with Indian accent. It is truly awful or maybe comical? Our youngest has a speech impediment, one of the issues is corrupted vowels. Some of her vowels sound rather British; my older kids blame all the British mysteries I watch. They say she absorbed it while in the womb and as an infant.
Something I find funny is when there is a terrible American accent in British TV shows. I once watched a theatrical version of an Agatha Christy Tommy and Tuppence” mystery and the American character looked like Colonel Sanders and sounded like someone trying to imitate him but failing badly. They can no longer make fun of Americans trying to speak with a British accent.
Hugh Laurie and Gary Oldman do excellent American accents.
Learned them all by watching BBC Northern Ireland when I was a kid in the suburbs of Dublin.
What is an “RP” accent?
British u = oo
US rubbish== ruh-bish
UK rubbish== roo-bish
US Facebook= Face-buhk
UK Facebook= Face-booook
US lieutenant== loo-tenant
UK lieutenant== lef-tenant
US schedule== skeh-dyool
UK schedule== sheh-dyool
Heard a British radio announcer say Michigan as Mitch-i-gan
not Mish-i-gan
British u = oo
US rubbish== ruh-bish
UK rubbish== roo-bish
US Facebook= Face-buhk
UK Facebook= Face-booook
US lieutenant== loo-tenant
UK lieutenant== lef-tenant
US schedule== skeh-dyool
UK schedule== sheh-dyool
Heard a British radio announcer say Michigan as Mitch-i-gan
not Mish-i-gan
I can tell most of the prominent English dialects — Cockney, Estuary, Mancunian, Tyke, Liverpudlian, Brummie, West Country, Geordie, etc — but darned if I can tell Aussie from Kiwi.
A few years ago I had a friend/co-worker from London and when he was in town we would go to the bars and chat up women.
As soon as he spoke to a girl, I would pull back and look at him, while the girl was there, and say “Stop that” he would reply “Stop what?”, I continued, “Stop talking with that stupid accent, you think it’s cleaver or it’s going to help you with the girls but it just sounds dumb”.
He was not happy.
Which I found hilarious.
I hear audiobooks with British narrators. When quoting an American like Linda McCartney (Fab: an Intimate Life of Paul McCartney) they use a US accent.
Planet of the Apes: human char. has UK accent. The intelligent apes have American accents.(Spoiler)—the couple on the spaceship who find the manuscript have American accents. We find out they too are apes.
Once had a Belgian intern who pronounce Michigan as Mitch-chicken, Buffalo as Boo-follow.
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