mjmooney Posted February 26, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 26, 2018 (edited) 1. Accent challenge word list: Aunt - ARNT Envelope - EN-v'lope Route - ROOT Theater - THEE-atter Caught - CORT Salmon - SAMM'n Caramel - CARRA-mel Fire - FY-er Coupon - COO-pon Tumblr - TUM-bler Pecan - PEE-can Both - BOATH Again - ag-EN Probably - PROB-ab-lee GPOY - ???? (no idea what this means) Lawyer - LOY-er Water - WOR-ter Mayonnaise - may-on-AYZE Pajamas - p'JAH'mz Iron - EYE'n Naturally - NATCH'r'lee Aluminium - aller-MIN-yum GIF - (huh?) GIF! New Orleans - nyoo or LEENZ Crackerjack - CRACK-a-jack Doorknob - DOR-nob Alabama - alla-BAMMER 2. What is it called when someone throw’s toilet paper on the house? WTF? 3. What is that bubbly carbonated drink called? Eh? Which one? Coke? Seven-Up? Schweppes' Tonic Water? Vimto? (EDIT: Oh I see. Pop). 4. What term do you use for gym shoes? Pumps. 5. What do you call your grandparents? I don't have any. 6. What do you call the thing with wheels used to carry groceries in the supermarket? A trolley. 7. What do you use to change channels on TV? The remote. EDIT: Of course, all the above is about pronunciation (and culture) - it merely indicates that I'm British, rather than (North) American. It gives no clue as to which regional accent I have. Edited February 26, 2018 by mjmooney 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted February 26, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 26, 2018 Agree with all the pronunciations with @mjmooney. Although I say “JIF”, not “GIF”. How else would one pronounce “door knob”? In the US, kids have been known to throw toliet paper on people’s houses at Halloween. The house was “TP’d” (tee peed). The result looks like kind of how you might decorate a Christmas tree with tinsel, just with a house and toilet paper. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Got mine to work in the end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 According to Rob , mine is a cockney accent ... But to me it’s just an accent that speaks proper English not like those weird people North of Watford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 26, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 26, 2018 Just now, tonyh29 said: According to Rob , mine is a cockney accent ... But to me it’s just an accent that speaks proper English not like those weird people North of Watford If yo are gunna be a Villa fan, it's about toime yo lerned to speak proper Brummie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted February 26, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 26, 2018 In the past I’ve found that I occasionally (and unintentionally) mimic accents when I’m talking to someone with a strong accent. **** knows what that’s about, thankfully I haven’t done it in a while. I don’t think I have a particularly strong West Midlands accent, but when I meet someone from outside the area I get told I have. The flip side of that, is as my old man’s a Londoner, I occasionally get asked (by locals) if I’m from the south. The odd “larf” instead of “laff” slips out for instance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 26, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 26, 2018 6 minutes ago, Shropshire Lad said: In the past I’ve found that I occasionally (and unintentionally) mimic accents when I’m talking to someone with a strong accent. **** knows what that’s about, thankfully I haven’t done it in a while. I don’t think I have a particularly strong West Midlands accent, but when I meet someone from outside the area I get told I have. The flip side of that, is as my old man’s a Londoner, I occasionally get asked (by locals) if I’m from the south. The odd “larf” instead of “laff” slips out for instance. I think most people do that to some extent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarpie Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 My english is basically what our rally drivers talk with: and, not my video but great example of finnish aksent 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 26, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 26, 2018 There's an Android app called 'English Dialects'. I've just downloaded it, but haven't tried it yet. Although, of course, dialects are not quite the same thing as accents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Quote 1. Accent challenge word list: Aunt, Envelope, Route, Theater, Caught, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Coupon, Tumblr, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, GPOY, Lawyer, Water, Mayonnaise, Pajamas, Iron, Naturally, Aluminium, GIF, New Orleans, Crackerjack, Doorknob, Alabama. 2. What is it called when someone throw’s toilet paper on the house? 3. What is that bubbly carbonated drink called? 4. What term do you use for gym shoes? 5. What do you call your grandparents? 6. What do you call the thing with wheels used to carry groceries in the supermarket? 7. What do you use to change channels on TV? https://vocaroo.com/i/s1cZcasqDnnS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I think mine is a generic home counties non entity accent with a bit of oop north chucked in. 25 years of being around the NW has led to me saying bath and grass rather than barth and grarse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 1 hour ago, Shropshire Lad said: In the past I’ve found that I occasionally (and unintentionally) mimic accents when I’m talking to someone with a strong accent. **** knows what that’s about, thankfully I haven’t done it in a while. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I hate hearing my own voice being played back too. I'll give it a bash tomorrow. Whenever I've worked away, or been out of the region on a night out, I've always been told I sound like a brummie. Far from it though. I didn't think Rugeley folk had a brummie twang, until I heard several people on a tv show from Rugeley, and they all sounded proper West Midlands. It's weird, because I never hear it normally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 (edited) I mentioned in another thread I'm considering paying for accent reduction lessons. I don't think strong Walsall accent helps in the work place. Edited February 26, 2018 by Vive_La_Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 (edited) I can’t be bothered to record mine, but if I did I suspect it would sound laughably RP. I’ve had to do a couple of recordings while doing my English course in Uni and I sounded like I was reading the news for BBC in a decade long gone. My «natural» English accent is less posh, but doing most my English speaking trying to teach it as a second language, it’s become very polished. In the past, I’ve been told I have a hint of Irish in my accent but I suspect I tend to slightly adapt my accent to whatever native accent I’m talking to. Except for when I go to the US, where I try my hardest to sound as British as possible - they tend to find that quite exotic, especially away from NYC and I can’t truthfully do an American accent without sounding like I’m parodying it. If I’m in London, it’ll probably be fairly close to RP, but it tends to change if I’m further north. Never did master a Brummy accent, though, even if I’ve been there far more times than any other place outside Norway. I suspect it’s because you hardly ever hear it in international media. Edited February 26, 2018 by Michelsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 My accent will be quite similar to whoever I've been talking to for the last 10 minutes. I'm working in Cardiff, Bromsgrove and London and sound roundly south walian, brummy and cockerney on various days. I was in Gloucester all weekend drinking heavily with the locals, by Sunday lunchtime it was like the wurzles had **** the cast of the Archers. But give me half a day with me old school mates at the local football and I've got the coarsest strongest local accent going. You'd do well to understand what the merry **** I was talking about. Not unlike my written stylings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 (edited) Lost my Walsall twang years ago. Whenever I'm chatting to anyone from the midlands it comes straight back though.My Mrs thinks it's hilarious, on the phone, face to face it don't matter it's still in there! Worked with a woman from Walsall for a few years a while back. We may as well have been talking martian some of the time as far as our Welsh colleagues were concerned. Suppose after a decade or so in Cardiff I'm a bit more South Walian these days than I probably realise. When I lived in Sheffield I picked up the accent in a few months. Pretty much everyhere I've lived I've picked up the accent with the notable exception of my Devon years. That one never took root. Everyone's voice sounds different when you record it and hear it back. Apparently we're missing the resonance around our skulls so our voices generally sound more bass-y to ourselves than they are. I'm sure @Xann will be the one to tell me if that's an urban myth though! Edited February 27, 2018 by VILLAMARV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Southern tosser: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Unsure, you tell me, Telford raised, lived a lot in Lincolnshire, last 14 years in Stafford but worked Birmingham/West Brom the last ten years. https://vocaroo.com/i/s0u5tj81rSGm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 27, 2018 Moderator Share Posted February 27, 2018 What do you call your grandparents? 5 hours ago, VILLAMARV said: Lost my Walsall twang years ago. Whenever I'm chatting to anyone from the midlands it comes straight back though.My Mrs thinks it's hilarious, on the phone, face to face it don't matter it's still in there! Worked with a woman from Walsall for a few years a while back. We may as well have been talking martian some of the time as far as our Welsh colleagues were concerned. Suppose after a decade or so in Cardiff I'm a bit more South Walian these days than I probably realise. When I lived in Sheffield I picked up the accent in a few months. Pretty much everyhere I've lived I've picked up the accent with the notable exception of my Devon years. That one never took root. Everyone's voice sounds different when you record it and hear it back. Apparently we're missing the resonance around our skulls so our voices generally sound more bass-y to ourselves than they are. I'm sure @Xann will be the one to tell me if that's an urban myth though! That would be hilarious for me. Midlands accent and I'd instantly switch to mine too but here's the thing... Welsh accent - I'd do that as well They'd think I was taking the piss except I genuinely can't help it. Mixed Brummy / Scouse / Welsh company and my brain just fries I don't have a Scouse accent btw but I do use many of the colloquialisms. My normal accent is a complete hybrid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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