condemned2bfree Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65xVky__r6U That's a good word - distinguished - and she's right about the Birmingham accent. I forgot Ozzie is from there too. How do you spell mucka? Mucka think that's correct being slang anything goes :), suppose. What an american equivalent? Bud, or dude? Its interesting because so many American words are familiar over in the U.K., due to movies I guess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lorraine Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 http://youtu.be/ZY4TT3VtR8oThat's not so bad. Sounds like Keith Moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 http://youtu.be/b3FXG5cElws Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 The same place as this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhjGsmFKvR8It sounds like a slight cockney accent to me.No it's Yorkshire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 http://youtu.be/ZY4TT3VtR8oThat's not so bad. Sounds like Keith Moon.No Keith Moon is a cockney, this guy is a Geordie. You need more practice listening to these accents. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 http://youtu.be/b3FXG5cElws Oh and Just because some person is from a certain region or city doesn't mean they're going to sound exactly like everyone else from there, there's variations. Everyone develops differently depending on their experiences and how they react to them and what path they follow. It's kind of common sense really and it's the same anywhere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 (edited) http://youtu.be/jzAD2GLfaNUObviously he's exaggerating. Unfortunately he's not funny. Edited December 18, 2016 by treeduck 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Scouse: http://youtu.be/nDaTTVR2JXY He's not that bad. But once you lose him, it takes a while to get him back to understand him. Sounds like a slight Scottish accent on top of the British.That's the same accent as the Beatles, from Liverpool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 A couple points. If treeduck can identify where most Americans are from based on their accent he's doing better than me. I can't tell Alabama from Georgia from Carolina but I can tell its "southern." The only ones that are very obvious to me is Boston area and Maine area. Connectivity is going to slowly eliminate these I think. A few years back my wife and I went to the Rose and crown at Epcot and our waitress was from Scotland. I had to translate everything the waitress said into "English" for my wife as she couldn't understand a word. Of course, my wife's first language is Spanish so that's part of it but she was difficult to understand.Well I didn't say everywhere. The obvious ones are Boston, New York, Chicago (I learned that one from Lieutenant Monahan from Quincy and the show Crime Story), certain areas of Texas, Louisiana, Minnesota and Maine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 (edited) What's a geordie anyway? And how is that different from cockney? What's the lowest accent a Brit can have? You know, your equivalent of a Brooklyn and Bronx accent? Edited December 18, 2016 by Lorraine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 What's a geordie anyway? And how is that different from cockney? What's the lowest accent a Brit can have? You know, your equivalent of a Brooklyn and Bronx accent?A geordie is from Newcastle and cockney is a working class accent in London. There's about 300 miles between them which might not seem a lot in America but in the UK it's like 3000 in America. So comparing Newcastle and London is like comparing New York and San Jose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 (edited) The Brtish accent that's probably most hard to understand is a really strong Glaswegian (Glasgow in Scotland) accent. This is the accent that Billy Connolly has but his is only a light-medium version... This one is pretty strong but I have no trouble understanding it, there's much stronger ones than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XyecKONu8 Here's an exaggerated one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yeqSgNxiE Edited December 18, 2016 by treeduck 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 I put the wrong link in there for a sec, damn autoplay... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 What do you sound like, Treeduck? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 What do you sound like, Treeduck?I have no accent! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 What do you sound like, Treeduck?I have no accent! :sarcastic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 What do you sound like, Treeduck?I have no accent! :sarcastic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vb1B0Toko8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 I'll find you just the same, Treeduck. I'll listen for strains of Ozzie coming the houses. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 I'll find you just the same, Treeduck. I'll listen for strains of Ozzie coming the houses. ;)I'm not from Birmingham! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 I'll find you just the same, Treeduck. I'll listen for strains of Ozzie coming the houses. ;)I'm not from Birmingham!I know. I can read. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 My poor wife Denise can barely understand words uttered from the House of Windsor. I on the other hand as a community theatre thespian can understand all of the British Empire's English. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 I'll find you just the same, Treeduck. I'll listen for strains of Ozzie coming the houses. ;)I'm not from Birmingham!I know. I can read. :)Oh you mean music then coming from houses. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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