Another question for the Brits about Yorkshire accents
 

I've been listening to Jake Thackray lately and according to his bio he is from Yorkshire.

To me his accent sounds a lot like Sean Connery's at times. I'm wondering if the Yorkshire accent sounds like the Edinburgh accent to your ears.

Hey Bri, isn't that where McLeod was supposed to be from?

No.

OK.

Next question please.

ditto

how bout that gecko on the geico commercials?

The lizard is an aussie.

oi!


Thanks LJ.
I am reading a blog about the Gecko voice over. Of course I had to go look.

http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/...-by-jake-wood/

The comments at the bottom just crack me up. Entertaining too.

This is from another blog.

"our American friends sometimes have difficulty telling apart English, Welsh, Scottish, Australian and New Zealand accents."

Whereas every brit in the world thinks all Americans sound like Texans.

There is such a plethora of online bickering over the Gecko and our ways.
http://www.crazyontap.com/topic.php?TopicId=482

I think that gecko's accent is partly romantic fiction.

You Brits don't know how much fun we have with the Tiny Tim voice from a Christmas Carol.

It's something to the effect of "Please, sir. My whole family is starving to death. Could I have a crust of bread?"

It's a whole word-play on how impatient, and me-first, a typical American would probably be in that situation. Which is not to say that we would actually expect any real Brit to act that self-denigrating. I'm talking about among the non-rude segment of a population.

:lol:

Ooooh. Thanks for the All Creatures doc. My family and I used to watch it every week. Loved it.

Tristram of course went on to be the fifth Doctor Who. (youngest one prior to the new lad).

The book was good too. :)

I wonder if I should read it again. I am looking to see if it is an adult book.

* searching * It has to be better than the Echo and the Bone.

They were written for adults. My Dad was really into them before the series was made.


[edit] books, not book. There was a whol series of them. I think my favourite one was 'It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet'

are you dissing Gabaldon?

I don't think Brits think every American sounds Texan. I doubt many do at all in fact. Might not be able to tell you which accent is which, but they all sound very distinct.

i have no accent.

clodfobble especially has no accent, and she's in texas.

You have an accent. That accent may be your version of RP, it's not one I could place. It may not be regional accent at all. But we all speak with accents.

But someone with a Texan accent sounds completely different to someone with a New England accent.

*cough*

Like i said: it may not be a regional accent. But 'no accent' is in itself an accent. That's why I likened it to 'RP' (received pronunciation). In the UK 'RP' is a non-region specific accent; a kind of correct/standard pronunciation. It is closest to the Home Counties accent; but it is the accent which used to be adopted by all tv and radio presenters and actors (up until recent years) would always learn it and train their voices to it. That's why in old Brit tv and radio everyone sounds more or less the same. It is still the case to a certain extent, but getting less so as regional accents become more common in media.

A lot of people drop or soften their regional accents in line with social mobility. Generally speaking you are taken more seriously (in terms of initial impressions and in certain fields) if your accent is closer to RP and less regional.

I don't have a particularly strong accent most of the time, neither do my immediate family. I drop into northern at times depending on my mood; but i also drop out of it depending on circumstances and company.

people on TV (american TV) are the standard by which I say I have no accent.

Californians, Pennsylvanians, Floridians, Arizonians......


In the US, there are (among others)the following accents:

starting in the north east: New Englander, Boston ( BAAAHSTAHHN), New Yoooorker, (see Tony Danza) Jersey (Joisey, hot dooowg) (see also: Tony Soprano) Pa Dutch ( sounds like german...aka Yoni)

South East: Brett Favre, Elvis, etc.

Southern: Texan twangy

Cajun

Minnesota, yah,.....watch fargo, yah?

Middle American..... they say Pop for Soda, and have weird inflections.... listen to Elspode talk.... ( same thing going on in Pittsburgh)

I'm not really very familiar with Western accents..... Cicero, or Cloud or Lookout may be able to help.

I tried to read all things Wonderful. I don't think I was into it as I was All Things Great and Small.

I loved her series up to this one. I am trying to 'like' this story. Maybe I am just too preoccupied to appreciate the literary goulash of this particular book.

Many states peoples have no accent this is true. I do not have an accent either.

All y'all sound the same to me ...and you can lump in the Canadians, eh ;)

My kids apparantly have a Michigandan accent. We lived in Birmingham UK. Hebe was just starting to acquire a "Brummie" accent -which is the worst UK accent- so it was time to leave. Out of the frying pan, into the fire, eh? :lol:

You all have accents. Post a soundbite and we'll tell you what yours is. Otherwise we'll all hear you talking like a toothless hillbilly when we read your posts.

g'head

I've been told my only 'Joisey' is the word 'water' -- pronounced 'wadder'.
My father had a bit of a British thing going; my mom gets more Indian with time.

We don't have any. We speak in default mode. lol

It all goes back to Orange Dog

I put a bunch of links in my last post.....go back and click em

Accents for everyone but the upper west.

The only thing I could find were these guys.



seriously though



I found an audio clip from my favorite radio station. 101 fm Portland
http://www.kink.fm/topic/play_window...udioId=4407607

PORTLAND!

No, we need to hear you.

Husky, gruff and growly. You've heard it once, you've heard it a million times.

Or how about tinkling bells on a summer day or maybe a droll monotone that put's people into a comma, or a high nasal whine that grates like fingernails on chalkboard. Take your pick :)

I shouldn't be reading this thread. I just finished my linguistics class.

But anyway . . . FYI, speaking of US accents, look here:

Do You Speak American? (PBS)

The official US dialects are: West, North, Midland, South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England.

Personally, I'm kind of straddling the isogloss (ooh, a term from class) between Midland and South.

Our linguistics teacher showed us a really funny YouTube making fun of Pittsburgh, called "Pants n'at." :D

Woefully incomplete though, Massachusetts alone has at least four distinct accents. Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont have a couple each. Connecticut, at least three, but I'm not sure there's more than one in Rhode Island.

This is pretty cool. It's an International Dialect Archive.

Dialect soundbites for anywhere in the world with regional dialects too. My regional sound bite is spot on.
http://web.ku.edu/~idea/index.htm

that's awesome, sky.

You beat me to the punch with that site, Sky! I spent at least an hour last night listening to different Midwesterners talk. I was trying to find someone that sounded like me and had a hard time with it. I think I should sound more like the guy from Hammond, Indiana since I was born and raised in that region, but I dont know.

The five boroughs of manhattan each have distinct sounds Bronx and Brooklyn most notably different. Then there's LI, Westchester, Upstate east, west, and central.

She might in general... but I do recall that Hebe says "pasta" like a Brit.

Thanks

It was fun!

The only thing that stuck out at me from they guy from Hammond as the pronunciation of Chicago.

I liked that site, and listened to some of them. I think I probably sound most like Ohio Six...but that chick can't read. ;)

It didn't seem to hit the extremes...such as my boyfriend from a thousand years ago who hailed from a farm in the middle of nowhere in Minnesota. I didn't find anything that had the accent those people have. And Cajun wasn't represented in Louisiana (or I didn't hear that one) because when I visited Cajun country I could barely understand what people were saying.

Then again, we never sound like we think we sound. When I hear my voice on a recording I think "nuh-uh, that's not how I sound."

Anyway, mon has heard me talk in real life, maybe she can chime in...I always thought I had a definite "midwest twang" but have been told my accent is pretty neutral.

I've never completely shaken my 1980s Valley Girl leanings, though. Totally.

She does, although she claim to say it American-style when with her friends :lol:

Yeah Ohio 6 is about right for me. But wow, couldn't they have found a speaker that was a tad more literate? She can't tell the difference between "comma" and "coma" and apparently has no clue what "ether" is!

How do Americans/Brits say "pasta?" Isn't it -- phonetically -- /pastə/?

My Brit friends say Paahss the Pasta, I say Pass the Paahsta.

So when you guys (Shawnee and Juni) say Ohio is it pronounced with the _o at the end or just an -ah sound? I say O- hi-o.

I know Oregon is pronounced all different kinds of ways.

My friend from Canada pronounces pasta 'pay-sta' and he goes to post a package not mail a package but otherwise there isn't much of an accent.

Nope, Ohio, with an o.

Now, there are some people who say Cincinnati or Missouri like Cincinnatah, Missourah. In fact my pastor at church this morning said "Missourah." Cracked me up. He's from New York. I think he tries to change his speech sometimes so he sounds local. Fail. :)

But, you've gotta know the correct way to pronounce Louisville, KY. Quiz: Short answer, let's hear it. ;)

Nerk, A-hai

Lew-vul

Correct. And it's not Dayton, it's Day-in.

Well, there's no glottal flap on my keyboard.

Sorry Jim, no accent here...:)