My boyfriend from the UK is actually staying with us right now and damn, the accent is powerful. Free food at restaurants, free drinks at bars. People just jumping into our conversations because they want to talk to him. Earlier this week we were taking the train to do some shopping, and when the ticket taker came around to get our tickets, he just said 'Oh, I'm from leeds, I didn't know I needed a ticket' (Even though I bought one for each of us already) and it was fine. Ticket taker just said 'Oh its all good, welcome to america' and just.... moved on.
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One summer, when I was 19, I became deeply infatuated with a British girl and it took me two full weeks to realize she was really dumb.
Clearly never spoken to a brummy
The most sensual accent known to man
Then you see a pack of them getting off a Ryan Air or Wizz flight for a stag party in a place they picked for the sole reason of cheap pints and realize how misguided you were all along.
If you sound like Tom Hiddleston, sure.
If you sound like Shaun Ryder, probably not.
Depends which British accent. This post is referring to, probably, a fancy southerner accent, but if you speak like a crazed man from Birmingham, less so I'd imagine.
Depends on which accent.
As far as Americans are concerned, there are only 2 British accents:
Villain or wise mentor: Queen's English
Henchman or comic relief: Cockney
I would really like to see a movie about a team up between detectives with Yorkshire, Brummie and Scouse accents; working cross regionally to bring down a gang of criminals. Hardcoded subtitles for the Americans please.
Michael Cain would like to have a word about the Cockney accent typecasting.
He gets a pass cause he can make cockney sound refined
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Anecdotal..
British gal is visiting New York. Loves it and makes plenty of friends. She learns that if she has a job offer she can almost certainly get permission to stay. Goes to an employment agency and gets an interview the same day. Hired to a prestigious firm almost immediately. They tell her they love her classy British accent. In the UK she was lower middle class.
edit = silly me. I forgot that 'middle class' means different things.
At home, she would be a barmaid at the local.
In NYC she was a receptionist in a law firm on Madison Avenue.
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It does, but I once met a Mancunian who sounded, in his own words, common as muck and rough as fuck to a fellow brit, but in the states was treated like Shakespeare
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Even the smart Brits are so bad at names that they just change them to English or mispronounce them to sound more white
Oi mate how many points do Oi get with my Aussie vibe?
You get 10 fun points, 10 adventure points, and 30 hard drinking points. We'll treat you like people treat every American in places where they don't see a lot of Americans.
"So, uh, do you know Mel Gibson/Hugh Jackman/the Flight of the Concords guys?"
"Mate, I used to live the next Cattle Station over from Mel Gibson/Hugh Jackman/the Flight of the Concords blokes!"
+5 knife size
+7 can throwing
-2 etiquette
About 5 surfer points
It’s because we know you didn’t go to school in America
don't worry, this malady can be cured by following british politics for a month or two
A month or two? Seeing the age verification ordeal changed my mind in a matter of 30 seconds.
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Which British accent though? Like RP will make you sound intelligent, West Country makes you sound like a farmer, Northern Irish makes you sound like you're about to stab someone, Edinburgh makes you sound like a lawyer, Glaswegian makes you sound like a docker, Liverpudlian makes you sound like a rascal, Yorkshire makes you sound like a Union leader, and Shetland makes you sound like a folklorist.
And Welsh (particularly central Wales) makes you sound irresistible. That might just be me mind.
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Lenny Bruce said "Thank God Einstein came from Germany! If he'd told people about the Theory of Relativity in a Georgia accent they'd have laughed him out of the college."
In their defence, Queens English (Kings English now?) or RP was what most (older) Brits grew up hearing from news and documentaries. I'm still conditioned to give more weight to an argument given in a formal accent.
Though I do love how shocked Americans are by the range of British accents. E.g. the pirate, in "Treasure Island" was using a particularly thick West country accent.
Also see "Hot Fuzz" for the best play on accents!
He says “an ‘edge is an ‘edge, only chopped it doon cause couldn’t see view no more waz monin bout?”
I've seen Americans comment "bro is speaking English Premium" under videos from English Youtubers
Which british accent, though? Do they respond the same to Northern English? Scottish? Northern Irish?
Idk you just named two that cant speak English
Northern English and Scottish. True English is in Northern Ireland 😎
I asked my wife to turn the hoover off once but it turns out she was just chatting to her mate from NI and they'd gotten a little excited.
Times like this I miss reddit gold
🤣
I take twenty away.
I know what you people do at your soccer hooliganeries.
Ok but the word "soccer" doesn't even exist outside the USA.
Except for the part about the term starting in the UK in the 1880s as slang for Association Football to distinguish it from ~~rugger~~ "Rugby Football" where it later fell out of fashion but by then had made it's way to America and, due to the popularity of Gridiron Football taking the name "football," needed to be distinguished by another name, and what better to use than the previously established slang term, from Britain, "soccer."
Nah, they play soccer in Canada, Australia, Japan, and a few other places
This is true- am British, lived in America. Also good for dating
Isn't that already how it works in the UK, for RP? Which is probably the "British accent" that most non-Brits are thinking of, anyway.
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