English accents…

[Nightowl]

On 12/8/2023 at 7:39 PM, Simon Suraci said:

Mine is an Aussie boy. Take me home, Siri, please take me home! And then let me go down under…

Aussie pronunciation doesn’t work as well in Southern California with all the Spanish place names and streets though. He’s funny when he says “La Jolla” with a hard J. He says “Escondido” really fast and it sounds like: Escon-DILDO. 🤔 💭 🍆 

If the British did a little housekeeping putting back all the “R”s where they belong, that would be great. I’ll just wait here patiently until they do, thanks. Pronouncing “R” the end of words with vowels drives me crazy. Then they omit the “R” where on paper an “R” actually ends the word. 🤦‍♂️ 

I do enjoy a northerner British accent. @Jamie21 What’s the accent in Wallace and Gromit? Nevermind, looked it up, it’s West Yorkshire. I was right! I like that too. I worked with a guy from Huddersfield, which I believe is in Yorkshire. Very pronounced consonants at the end of his words, especially when the word falls at the end of a sentence, as if the word is a some declaration with a big, fat period.

Scottish accents are so funny. Love those too. Irish accents make my heart melt.

Is it just me or is a South African accent easy to mistake with a Kiwi accent at a quick listen? Those New Zealanders have a funny way with their vowels too, love it.

Sing a song in any regional accented English and it sounds American! Take Adele for, example.

I lived in Yorkshire for a while and really struggled to understand the accent at first.  When I first got there a shop owner asked me if I was having trouble understanding him.  “Oh no” I lied.  It wasn’t until I walked out of the shop that I realized he was essentially telling me I was not understanding him.  I came to love the Yorkshire accent and still consider myself to be part Yorkshireman.