Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
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I've been told many times that I sound exactly like Ray Brookes. If ever he needs a voice stunt double then I'm the man.
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Worst regional accent
- Thread starter Boycee
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I've been told many times that I sound exactly like Ray Brookes. If ever he needs a voice stunt double then I'm the man.
Bevendean Hillbilly
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You sound more like Quentin Crisp you total mince.
Raleigh Chopper
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High pitched American female accents from California (and I suspect other states) are unbearable.
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Although I totally get it on for Southern girls..especially New Orleans with its French undertones.
Baldseagull
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Al Murray demonstrating the diversity of Scottish accents and a bit of Scouse and Geordie
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
welsh
The Maharajah of Sydney
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Interestingly , considering its size , there's only 3 significant Australian dialects spoken - city and country , plus a broad aboriginal accent .
I couldn't tell if the Australian speaking next to me comes from Sydney or Perth (which is 4000 km away ) .
There are hundreds of tiny aboriginal communities who have their own dialect , but you rarely if ever come across them .
smudge
Up the Albion!
Manc & Scouse. Made for each other.
On an international note, Eastern Europeans here at work are very difficult to put up with; their accent I mean, very harsh, almost always sound ready for an argument, (& usually are).
On an international note, Eastern Europeans here at work are very difficult to put up with; their accent I mean, very harsh, almost always sound ready for an argument, (& usually are).
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Haha! And you look like Jamie Foreman.
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
I struggle with Indian accents. I have to deal with Indian technical helpdesks a lot (not the call centres that the general public speak to, the "back offices"). It seems that there is a sliding scale, with technical competence at one end and English language skill at the other; If you get someone who knows what you are talking about then they will be almost impossible to understand but if you get someone who speaks good English then its nailed on that they will be as useful as Winnie the Pooh.
A couple of things I've noticed with Indians is that they never get wound up; if they are trying to be assertive they will start every sentence with "actually". the other thing is that if you tell them something they don't want to hear (such as "our bit is testing OK, your kit has no power to it") they just go silent and you have to ask them if they understood to which they ALWAYS reply "sorry ?" and you have to tell them again, sometimes three or four times.
A couple of things I've noticed with Indians is that they never get wound up; if they are trying to be assertive they will start every sentence with "actually". the other thing is that if you tell them something they don't want to hear (such as "our bit is testing OK, your kit has no power to it") they just go silent and you have to ask them if they understood to which they ALWAYS reply "sorry ?" and you have to tell them again, sometimes three or four times.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Proper Brighton accent -
Max Miller born in Hereford Street, Kemptown
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Another that has been mentioned, Whitehawk-born Ray Brooks
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...and born, bred and still there less than 3 miles away in Rottingdean is John Copper from the famous folk singing family. Proper, old Sussex accent. Completely different.
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but my all-time favourite video of someone with a proper Sussex country accent is the wonderful Noel Dumbrell singing GOSBTS.
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Love, love, love that video.
I've always loved this video - especially the other fella who continually messes it up. I think he'd had a few!
Great video, he's an absolute sound alike of my great Uncle, such a shame the Sussex accent is dying out.
Puppet Master
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- Aug 14, 2012
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Received Pronunciation/"BBC English"
Yuk.
Yuk.
1066familyman
Radio User
- Jan 15, 2008
- 15,185
Went in the chippie up the road from the ground at Hull last season. Had a bit of trouble understanding what the woman serving was saying to me. I pretended not to hear the first time she asked me anything just so I could get a second attempt at it. At Huddersfield however I had no trouble understanding that I was being asked if - I'd like bits with that
As for Brum. I knew a couple from Walsall & Brownhills. They were always mistaken for Brummies down here and yet their accent is completely different. Even from Brownhills to Walsall there's a slight change.
I don't think there's a regional UK accent I don't like to be honest. Certainly tv is better for getting regional accents in rather than forcing everyone into talking RP. The two accents that grate the most on me are American (now there's a gross generalisation if ever there was one) and Australian. It's the questionese, or 'uptalk' that bugs me. More and more people are doing it here now too, probably because of all those Aussie soap operas and the fact that we've suffered from U.S cultural imperialism for so long.
This. Northern Irish is quite painful to listen to.
There's a map of UK accents here: http://sounds.bl.uk/Sound-Maps/Accents-and-dialects . The Welsh ones all sound the same to me 
Do you mean scraps?I'd like bits with that