Uk Accents.

[Craig.]

See i'll agree about the music:)
but i am not a fan of the northen accent, boston is particulary at the bottom of my list.
There are alot of differances between the southern accents, i personally love listening to those from alabama talk, mississippi can be quite funny to listen to some times.

[Fozzer]

....Mississippi can be quite funny to listen to some times.

Hi Craig... ...!

"Funny" is an excellent description when relating it to George, (you know who), plying for votes in the next election... ...!
LOL...!

....or the sound of red-neck, shaven-headed, Texan Marine telling me all about the joys of dying for the good-'ol US-of A...with that stupid glazed expression on his face... ...!

Sorry, Craig, (etc)... ... ...!

Paul...!

...Boy.... Am I going to get into trouble over this... ... ... ...!
...wait for it...
LOL..!

[TacitBlue]

What about the northern US, like Wisconsin? I didn't think that accent was real until I went there. They really do say "Oh yah, don't 'cha know"! Nothing wrong with it, it didn't bother me, I was just surprised to find that the stereotype was true.

[Hagar]

What about the northern US, like Wisconsin? I didn't think that accent was real until I went there. They really do say "Oh yah, don't 'cha know"! Nothing wrong with it, it didn't bother me, I was just surprised to find that the stereotype was true.

Sounds more like the English posh public school accent. "I say Old Boy, don'cha know, what, what?"

PS. Public schools are expensive places like Eton & Harrow. What you call private schools over the big puddle. Don't ask.

[Rifleman]

Doug, your related song about "ticky tacky" woke up a long dormant part of my brain........thanks.

[Ivan]

In holland you got a load of local accents too...

You have three to four main accent groups: Northwestern, Southern, Eastern (sometimes they make a difference between eastern and north eastern too). Every one of these groups has its own stereotypes...

Apart from these accent groups there are a load of local accents (Amsterdams (amsterdam), Haags (the hague)), the separate language Frisian (which makes for its own accent too) and the dialects (for exampe Westfries, Gronings).


You can almost always recognise when people do speak Frisian, as it gives a particular accent

Limburgs has close ties to the dialect spoken in Aachen.

Westfries is mainly spoken by older generations in my region.

Youth culture in the large cities has adapted the dialect that sometime is called Murks. Think of it as a mix between dutch, turkish, arabic (morocco) and a bunch of words from surinam and the antilles

[Saitek]

I was surprised at the Oxfordshire accent. Doesn't sound like me, my family or my extending family and we are all born and bred in Oxford. Weird.

[Hagar]

I was surprised at the Oxfordshire accent. Doesn't sound like me, my family or my extending family and we are all born and bred in Oxford. Weird.

A database is a good idea but I found the same. Nothing in the Sussex section that sounds anything like me. I suppose there are variations in all local dialects that get diluted with people moving around so much nowadays. Most of my neighbours are actually Londoners who moved down here after retiring.

When I visited a factory there some years ago I was surprised to find that what I always thought of as a Brummie (Birmingham) accent is only spoken in Redditch. http://www.redditch.com/redditch/town.html
This misconception was mainly due to the famous comedienne Beryl Reid & her character Marlene with the huge earrings & catchphrase "Good evening, each!".  :D
Your parents might remember her but I doubt it. Strangely enough she was born in Fozzer's home town of Hereford & grew up in Manchester.

[Saitek]

Probably they would, but my parents and there parents are pure Oxford locals. They have spent most of their life there.  ::) Oh well. Probably is a good representation over all though.

[Hagar]

[quote]Probably they would, but my parents and there parents are pure Oxford locals. They have spent most of their life there.