Only thing that turns me off about Cheryl Cole. That advert she's in for something to do with hair "GIV UR 'AIR BAAHCK ITZZ MOHJOH!" It grinds my brain.LeonLethality said:
The British Accent - A lesson on ignorance.
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Tv tropes has quite a good page on some of our accent might give Americans a rough guide http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BritishAccents I think going by that I have an estuary English accent.
Most accents are hilarious, it doesn't matter if there are from any part of United Kingdom.Cmwissy said:
I've heard people from Toronto and Calgary say Eh. It's exaggerated in parodies, but in reality I hear it just after a question.emwhite123 said:
For everyone who thinks there is only one British accent, do the following.
1. Watch David Tennant in Doctor Who.
2. Listen to David Tennant in an interview.
3. ???
4. Profit!
1. Watch David Tennant in Doctor Who.
2. Listen to David Tennant in an interview.
3. ???
4. Profit!
That pretty much happens with any athlete in the UK. I wonder if Americans do that where if you win you're American, but lose and you're from Indiana.cassaho said:
It's quite weird how we have the UK or Britain as a country, but also England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland as their own countries too....we have to figure this out, it's all about semantics really but it's quite easy.
English people can be called British. Not the Scottish, Welsh and DEFINITELY not the Northern Irish who barely count themselves that as it is. We live in a country where you can choose on your passport to say "British" or "Scottish", but this has no effect, merely semantics, and some nationalistic pride.
Americans maybe get very very confused over all of this, but that's what happens when there's been 2000 years of history over splitting up this island. XD
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Okay, REAL debate here, accent. Scottish people are very recognisable in their accent, so that's no problem there. The English and the Welsh however, there's the problem. For starters, Wales is quite overlooked in the world so many do not recognise the Welsh accent but they do realise it is from Britain, which it technically is.
England itself has several accents from the West Country accent ('ere, don't feed the pidguns luv), Cockney/East London (oi, don't feed the pidgeons love), West London/Kent, and then there's the cities of Manchester (Oasis are from there), Birmingham and Liverpool (The Beatles are from there). That's my understanding of it anyway.
Although I will say not many people in the UK can recognise the differences between American accents, other than "Thuh Deep Sow-uth" and "New York Citeh", so fair's fair.
Yes they are however they are still separate countries though.Hope Chest said:
How many times do you have to miss the point?
Britain isn't a country
A sovereign state, commonly simply referred to as a state, is a political association with effective internal and external sovereignty over a geographic area and population which is not dependent on, or subject to any other power or state.
- Does it use the word 'country' in there? no - stfu.
Well done - you're an idiot.
The state is known as The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (Commonwealths, Dominions Beyond the Seas, etc...), the adjective to describe our citizens is British, as a blanket term. The state is made up of a number of united nations with Liz 2 as head of state, and nominal control by Westminster over all the nations therein, except for rights and responsibilities which have been devolved to regional governments/assemblies.Cmwissy said:
I think it'd help get rid of this whole "country" word from the equation, eh?
Britain, as a word without context is strictly used in reference to the island between the English Channel and the Irish Sea, upon which reside the nations of England, Scotland, and Wales. Obviously, it's also used as a contraction of Great Britain, or the UK (of GB, NI, etc...)
Erm... think I covered all the bases there.
Oh absolutely. It does bear mentioning that we're not any sort of Federation; it's got certain features, devolution of certain responsibilities, as we've covered, to the Scottish parliament and Welsh Assembly. But it's one [b}United[/b] Kingdom. Not a republic or a federation, a constitutional monarchy; that is to say our armed forces swear allegiance to the Queen, rather than the flag, and she has some minor ceremonial functions, besides being a nice old lady who's got a mad husband, and a pleasant piece of continuity in the life of the country.Cmwissy said:
You think that's shocking, my dad once figured out which town in Doncaster someone was from by her accent (for those who know the Doncaster area, she was from Mexborough). I'm still yet to work out how (though I can tell the difference between Barnsley and Doncaster accents, both in South Yorkshire about half an hour away from each other)Cmwissy said: