[Closed] Lewis Hamilton's accent

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What part of the UK speaks like that? 😀

Does he live in part of the UK?

Monaco. Westside, innit.

lives somewhere up his M1

He's actually from Wythenshawe but hides it quite well

I think spending a lot of my time with people that have English as a second language I'd start to speak like them as well...

I think spending a lot of my time with people that have English as a second language I'd start to speak like them as well...

Dunno about that. I've been in Dundee for 5 years now and still don't sound like them...

[i]I think spending a lot of my time with people that have English as a second language I'd start to speak like them as well... [/i]

This.

According to my Missus I use to do the same.

Don't believe that you won't if you don't want to. My wife has been in liverpool for 17 years now, nearly half her life, she doesn't sound any different from the day I met her.

My dad was from Glasgow but lived in Toronto for the majority of his life. He always sounded 100% glaswegian.

Stoner - Member
Westside, innit.

Oh wait, is Lewis Hamilton an American rapper or Tim Westwood in disguise?

Or are you stereotyping based on your clearly limited racial profiling expertise?

I don't think the effect is as pronounced with very strong accents. It's more with Europeans and Middle Eastern folk who learned English accentlessly or through Business and not through a dialect, you end up with that curious "mid atlantic" version which is not quite UK, not quite US english.

Sounds odd.

Some of the native English speaking MotoGP riders do this sometimes as well, Jack Miller was terrible for it last year then seemed to pull himself together. Randy Mamola lived/lives in Barcelona and listening to him pitch in when the GPs were on Eurosport was funny and Cal Crutchlow springs to mind too.

You acquire the language around you, a bit like picking up an accent when you move to somewhere with a different one to where you were brought up. I'm from North Shields and am gutted I now sound like a f-ing Mackem because I've lived in Peterlee for six or so years 😆

Mrshora has been in Manchester for 5yrs and left Huddersfield in the same year as me- everyone thinks shes a local born and bred Mancunian.

I've been away from Yorkshire since 1994 yet I sound like a run the local farm on t'ops from thar Yorkshire lad (still)..

He's from my neck-of-the-woods, East Herts, mixed with Monaco, not my neck of the woods.

My accent moves about according to the company I keep. I sound much much more Kiwi after a few days in the Land of the Long White Cloud.

Remember that he's spent a lot of his growing years outside of the uk and alongside people from all nationalities, so something is gonna rub off.

I spent a while (nearly a year) in Australia when I was about 21/22ish and when i came back people commented on my accent.

I have friends who moved to NZ a few years ago when they were in their 40's and they've definitely pucked ip a bida the linguige [i]A[/i].

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I think spending a lot of my time with people that have English as a second language I'd start to speak like them as well...

If you see footage of a young Hamilton he was a proper geezer. He's been groomed for stardom since he was young and I reckon elocution lessons were a big part.

He's been groomed for stardom since he was young and I reckon elocution lessons were a big part.

This is the reason so many professional sportspeople are as dull as dishwater. They won't say anything to reveal character. I hope they leave the bikes alone, as Rossi has more character in his little finger than all the F1 dullards put together.

I don't understand the dislike for Lewis. Almost as though we think of him from 'one of us' made good and we don't like it? We think hes flaunting it etc? I Say 'we'. I don't think any of that.

Why not dislike for Jenson or others? Hes a young single bloke enjoying his job and his life. Hes not a boxer being photographed with alot of cash in hands on social media.

His accent is a product of working with men and women from different nationalities and spending a huge chunk of his time in their company. He doesn't clock off at 5.30pm and sit infront of Corrie all evening.

His longterm ex-girlfriend is American etc etc.

Honestly I don't get it. We really don't like Brits done well do we? We only like plucky Brits and foreign cheats who win.

If you want humour. When he and Vettel were interviewed and both asked what their biggest purchases were Vettel answered 'a house'. A pause, a long pause then an embarrassed look 'a private jet'. Vettel laughs and looks sideways at Lewis

I think the tide of opinion is now turning in favour of Hamilton. He's like Andy Murray, who needed to show more weakness and humility before people could begin to identify with him.
The other way to do it would be to show more humour, so maybe LH should consider some standup on the Monaco club circuit.

I don't understand the dislike for Lewis

I like him as his success winds up the Spanish fans no end 😀

badnewz - Member
I hope they leave the bikes alone, as Rossi has more character in his little finger than all the F1 dullards put together.

I don't know about F1 drivers being dullards. I always thought that David Coulthard had a bit of spark in him. And poor old Jacques Villeneuve always got a bad rap precisely [i]because[/i] he had spark.

I'm sure some of the F1 drivers do have real personalities, but it seems they are forced to be as corporate/monotone as possible. I think this is coming from the sponsors, who are obsessed with risk-management. But in the long run it just makes sport increasingly pedestrian and boring.

I think spending a lot of my time with people that have English as a second language I'd start to speak like them as well...

Zis discussion is incomplete wit'out mentioning ze Joey Barton fae Merseyside:

Really? Who gives a sh t - if you're going to pick on something, then surely that ridiculous gold chain, but then again, who gives a sh t 😉

Zis discussion is incomplete wit'out mentioning ze Joey Barton fae Merseyside:

or Shteev Maclaren

Kryton57 - Member

Oh wait, is Lewis Hamilton an American rapper or Tim Westwood in disguise?

Or are you stereotyping based on your clearly limited racial profiling expertise?

Eh? I think it was just a joke, and/or perhaps a reference about the well known fact that he hangs around a lot of rappers and there has been mention of him 'going into the studio' etc......

No need to go all 'Daily Mail'.....!

Mates of mine moved to Perth, Oz in around 2004 and have developed a distinct Oz twang.
I have been living in East Anglia for years and react with horror when I occasionally turn my u's into oooo's - That's bloody huge' turns into 'That's bloody hoooge'. GAH, sound like a web footed carrot munching simpleton!! 😀

It more to do with grooming that McLaren/Mercedes have given him over the years

Sponsors are king therefore speak with a bland accent and say effectively nothing

Joss Stone was pretty funny. Spent about 6 months in America and came back with a massive ego & an even larger American accent.

She soon went back to the local West Country accent when everyone was all like Girl, WTF? in her grill etc.

I don't understand the dislike for Lewis....

.....bitterness and envy?

in her grill

I spent my school years in Fort Lauderdale, FL.. returned here during A levels, never picked up an American accent whilst there but when here I was told there was a hint of it.
Still get asked where I'm from to this day.

You just kinda morph don't you?

slowoldman - Member

Eh?

You know really, don't you? If not, then please follow links to these handy reference guides:

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HTH (text speak for Hope That/This Helps, in case you were wondering?)

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Some people are particularly prone to accent swapping, mine is pretty slag like and jumps aboard whoever I'm around. Whenever I used to spend a lot of time over in the North East the Mrs would go mad as I'd be speaking "like a proper Geordie...", once I was back West I'd slip back into Dumbrian. It happens if I go North/South too but not quite as bad. I don't even realise I'm doing it 😳

Mrs Binners says she can gauge what mood I'm in by my accent. Apparently the more pissed off I am, the more Manc I go. If I'm in a really bad mood, I go full Salford 6 😀

I have lived in GeordieLand for sometime now but I still have to constantly remind the locals to speak English like I do. 😆

Mrs Binners says she can gauge what mood I'm in by my accent. Apparently the more pissed off I am, the more Manc I go. If I'm in a really bad mood

I was chatting to my next door neighbour on her drive and hora junior ran past us and into her house. I said 'careful hes a manc and will have your telly etc'.... she replied 'oi you cheeky ****er I'm a ****ing manc too' 😆

Lived in Brum for 6 years and I think I have a neutral accent. However, when I meet people for the first time and tell them where I live their reaction is, "thought so, can tell from your accent". Which is a worry. I even called someone `babs' the other day. 😯

We then have my born and bred Birmingham son who is almost four. He talks like Barry on a bad day, and we have no idea what he is saying half the time especially when he goes up and down the octave range whilst extending the pronunciation of the final part of a word. Our next move could be to Plymouth which will mess up his accent nicely.

My sis in law sometimes reminds me of Nigel Mansells, its like listening to slate grey skies with drizzle.

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Having lived in The North™ for the last 16 years, I've been accused of Mrs North of sounding more Northern.

So I've decided to spend most of the week living and working in London now in order to wash it off me,

My daughter, however, was born in Manchester and is growing up in Lancashire. If she's with me, she'll say "barth", but "bath" (with the flat A) with Mrs North. It's almost as if she's bilingual.

Perhaps she can help me translate when I go into Wigan….

f she's with me, she'll say "barth", but "bath" (with the flat A) with Mrs North.

there's some degenerate teacher at Stoner Jr's school that uses "flat A" in bath & grass etc. Regular clips around the ear have smacked that out of Jr for now. He came home once and pronounced "H" as "Haitch" 😯 He got 2 weeks in the hole for that. Wont be doing it again.

I tend to mimic the accents of whomever I'm around the most, it's like a form of tourettes and I have to concentrate to stop it at work, some people find it funny and some don't, but the Weedge is my default postion when pished and/or annoyed accent. Get it right up ye!

I am horrendously guilty of adopting the respective foreign tinged version of English in whatever country I'm in after a few shandies. 😳

surroundedbyhills - Member
I tend to mimic the accents of whomever I'm around the most, it's like a form of tourettes

This. It used to really confuse people at work.

My two have been in Newcastle for about 2 years now 😯

came home once and pronounced "H" as "Haitch"

We had this last night for the first time. I nipped that in the bud quick sharp. Living in the north west it's endemic, even among the (apparently) educated.

The next word she'll be learning to spell is "aitch". It's in the dictionary everyone!

I've been away from Yorkshire since 1994 yet I sound like a run the local farm on t'ops from thar Yorkshire lad (still)..

Hora, you really REALLY don't.

My eldest (11) is native Perthshire, but can do great Bolton and Blackburn accents at will - usually when he's taking the piss out of his parents!

And all those worried out pronouncing Haitch, you can start worrying when they come out with jai (like eye, but with a j in front) when they mean the letter J, or Etch, when they mean aitch!

Dundee IS worse though!

Grew up in Dundee with west coast parents then lived in Glasgow followed by Suffolk and now Cheshire. According to most of my clients I am the Irish vet? Don't hear it myself but describe my accent as mongrelised.

Can vary it, gets stronger when go home or speak to my sis on the phone but can do a good 'phone' voice too.

If Lewis wants a truly sexy accent, he can spend a bit of time getting elocution lessons from me. 🙂

Hamilton's accent is a hybrid, same as his genetic material. That's a future citizen of the world you're looking at.

He's a pretty good racing driver.

Cal Crutchlow has done a bit of a Steve McLaren, as did Gary Verity last year having spent so much time with Prudhomme, obviously a natural (if amusing) side effect of speaking English with non native English speakers.

My accent changes wherever I live quite quickly. So what?

Lewis is an awesome sportsman, usually conducts himself impeccably, but he's young and will make the odd faux pas. So what?

I don't think the effect is as pronounced with very strong accents. It's more with Europeans and Middle Eastern folk who learned English accentlessly or through Business and not through a dialect, you end up with that curious "mid atlantic" version which is not quite UK, not quite US english.

Sounds odd.

Yeah my wife has this as she went to an American International School but then came to the UK to study at undergrad level.

A global accent will end up being the sign of being one of the elite, as globalti pointed out. Different world, once you're rich enough you can live where you want, state borders no longer exist.

Hamilton's placeless accent is no worse than one of the Athertons - Rachel, or Gee in particular, who sound like they are desperately trying to hide every trace of their coun'ry bumpkin Wiltshire roots, with this mid-Atlantic dirge. Probably also a product of hanging out with too many non-native English speakers (aka Americans) 😉

I have a Lebanese customer in Monrovia who rings me from time to time and shouts down the phone; he has a bogus American accent and I know he's never lived in the USA. He's a really conceited, pompous idiot. Keeps saying: "Liberia's ebola free! When are you coming to see me my friend?" I only went there once and it was ghastly; I'd rather go to Lagos.

So lewis and the athertons going one way while Blair, Osbourne and even Cambridge are going the other with occasionally flurries of full estuary....all rather amusing.

Good driver ,shit bloke !