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Has this been done yet?
I live in South Wales and love the final statement on the vid.
My accent is RP.
[url= http://twentytwowords.com/tour-accents-across-british-isles-performed-single-unedited-take/ ]A tour of accents across the British Isles.[/url]
No NE accents so it's null and void.
That guy is really talented - I'm well impressed. Although he didn't do South London which I guess is how I speak.
Sorry Drac, I didn't quite get that?
His scouse is appalling and he's missed out loads of the difficult ones.
No NE accents so it's null and void.
Here you go:
He makes a good fist of a Jamaican Geordie...
And an Indian Welshman.
Proper Cumbrian is very hard to do, as is Mancunian - always ends up as Terry Christian, whereas a cross between Mark E Smith, Les Dawson and John Cooper Clark would be more representative of most Manc scumbags.
Proper Cumbrian, eh marra.
His scouse is appalling and he's missed out loads of the difficult ones.
Never ever heard a non scouser that has properly nailed a scouse accent.
Sorry Drac, I didn't quite get that?
Damn it nearly fell for that.
Separating Welsh into two accents isn't very precise, there are loads. Around here it is easy to tell Cardiff from Swansea from Llanelli from Carmarthen. When I lived in Mach the accent changed between Machynlleth and Llanidloes, Aberystwyth, Aberdyfi, Dolgellau etc. it's a product of insularity/ lack of inter-mingling possibly.
When all is said and done though, fair do to the guy.
Stumbled across this guy. Not bad, and quite funny if you don't mind the occasional lazy stereotype.
And an Indian Welshman.
We had a geography teacher at school that because of his black hair, fairly dark complexion, and the way he called us all "you bloody bastards" in what appeared to be a distinctive Indian accent, I automatically assumed was Indian.
It was only several years after leaving school that it occurred to me that "Mr Jones" the geography teacher might not have been Indian after all. I still can't tell the difference between how an Indian and a Welsh person pronounces "bloody bastards".
Although I can instantly tell an East Ender from a South Londoner.
Separating Welsh into two accents isn't very precise, there are loads. Around here it is easy to tell
I think the same is true of anywhere; you can tell minor variations a lot more accurately when they're close to home. I could probably pinpoint a local town by accent, but would struggle to differentiate Welsh beyond Valleys / Everywhere Else.
Separating Welsh into two accents isn't very precise, there are loads.
Ah was about to say more or less the same as Cougar luckily I hit refresh.
Naeboady duz the Scots' accents proper, like.
Accents are becoming less defined:
As a kid I could tell Salford from Collyhurst as they were quite distictive, despite being next to each other.
Anywhere north of Moston the Oldham twang was very prevalent, but the change was very sudden, defined mostly by school catchment areas.
Lodders, spot on. Never heard a good scouse accent from anyone but a Liverpudlian.
Anecdotally,
I was on holiday a couple of years ago, somewhere in the Cornwall vicinity. Popped into a Tourist Information Office, the woman behind the counter said to me, "I bet I can tell you where you're from."
Go on then, I said, expecting "up North" or something equally insightful. "Either Accrington or Blackburn," she replied.
A little surprised, I asked, "how do you know it's not Burnley or Preston or something?" "Oh no," she says, "wrong accent." Turned out she was born up here somewhere.
Naeboady duz the Scots' accents proper, like.
Are you a Geordie too?
Are you a Geordie too?
Ah can see why you'd hink tha', but no/naw/nu'.
Are you a Geordie too?
Doesn't look like it.
Arti suggestin that we all start talkin proper local in ere like?
Remember Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper? When that bloke sent the cassette tape taunting the police, which turned out to be a hoax (he did time for it) they played it to a phonetics expert who was able to pinpoint not just the area of Wearside from where the bloke came, but also three particular streets. When it was broadcast on the TV, three women rang and shopped their husbands!
This all reminds me,
I've been meaning to post [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/prabux-imbux ]this[/url] for ages.
Accents are becoming less defined:
True mostly, but apparently, scouse is the one accent bucking this trend...
Nowt there Cougar lad.
Or is this dastardly trick by the coffee marketing board?
Oh, that was odd. Fixed.
I'd pay good money for a sat-nav that changes its accent and dialect as you travel.
"try to make a legal U-turn, duck"
Quite good, but I wasn't impressed with his Yorkshire accent!
Clever that OP vid, but South East doesn't get a look in, different from Cockney, thats for sure.