The 'accents' thread

( Have I made this thread before, a long time ago? I can't remember )

Everyone's got a super-neat accent, assuming they can speak- so what's yours sound like? Be as descriptive as you can! Type out words and how you pronounce them as opposed to how they're spelled ( or anything else that'll help you show us HOW you talk ). If you speak with a Cockney accent then you automatically win the entire thread.

Me first: I've genuinely got no idea. The only english-speaking places I've ever lived in were in the southermost Bible belt sections of the USA, but the folks here tell me I sound different. They pronounce 'Harry' as 'hairy' here too, wow. I kept correcting them when I was talking about our cat because I wasn't aware that it was an accent. xD

How do I talk?

http://www.countryhumor.com/redneck/dictionary.htm

;-P

My accent sounds like shit.


And God dammit, the rest of what I wrote didn't make any sense.

im from RAH-chester


we pronounce (we meaning not me) creek as crick, hammock as hamMOCK and boots as bewts.

and room as rum....if only the room were rum O.o

I'm from Good old barnsley and it's got one of the most southernly and strongest accents in yorkshire.. Here goes;

tha noz = You know..

a se = I say

wa iz zit = What is it?

wi izzit = Where is it?

Oh hell......

I sound exactly like this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmJ7XVZOb2A





Yes, that's what I do in my free time.



Cheers,
Hor

as i'm originally from 'cockney country' [family on my fathers side are from Camberwell/Lambeth/Southall area] i declare myself the winner.[as by the rules of the thread]

however,my mothers side are Cornish so if you throw that into the mix as well then i sometimes sound as if i've had a stroke depending on who's company i'm in.
i've also been told on many occasion that i sound South African.although the closest ive ever been to there is via a cheap bottle of plonk.

think Dick Van Dyke meets Jethro for a vocal combination.

"we dont like strangers here" is pronounced "we downt loick strayngas ear" when i say it around locals

I refer you to this topic if you want to know more about my accent:

http://queenzone.com/queenzone/forumnew/forum_topic_view.aspx?Q=1119705

We swallow klinkers, we don't say lopEn, but lop'n. We don't pronounce the E in this word for example.


PS: I don't talk in Grunnings.

Here you can hear Grunnings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBna3YSG00c&feature=related

(I know, some Dutch accents sound really stupid; Frysk is even worse than Grunnings)

On this site, you can hear induvidual words and sentences:

http://www.sillius.nl/groningana/groningsvoorbeginners.html

If you click on the little icons

A native Brit lecturer put me under the label "conservative American accent" based on a reading test in which I tried my best to pronounce everything in the standard British English, trying to find that phrasing and intonation of a bbc newsreader... (obviously I failed miserably in the ears of a native, therefor the conservative Ame. verdict)...

http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/phila.html

There's a bit of Pennsylvnia Dutch, and American Southern sprinkled about as well.

Wow. I didn't know I had that much of an accent untill I read all the way through that web page. I assumed that I was speaking correctly all these years. However, I aint changin'. No way, no how.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Bad Horsie wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I sound exactly like this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmJ7XVZOb2A





Yes, that's what I do in my free time.



Cheers,
Hor[/QUOTE]

I've watched that many times. Hahahaha. So cute! :)

My accent....???

For those who know me well here... Most of you have heard it before...

It's very British. Yeah...

Hmmm... I sound more American than British when I'm speaking English.

Something like Goran Visnjic. lol

*edit*
As for Croatian, it sounds like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_1e77hFv18&feature=related

"If you are in Zagreb or near, come to Piranha bar around 23pm. If you aren't, see you on Monday. Goodbye!"

xD

I guess i have a Glasgow/West of Scotland accent, not that strong mind you, i've been told before that i don't even sound Scottish.

But i have a husky/shit voice anyway, all my friends say i sound like i'm losing my voice since it can be that husky.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Ms. Rebel wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Hmmm... I sound more American than British when I'm speaking English.

Something like Goran Visnjic. lol



[/QUOTE]

He is a legend!

Think Hermione Granger.

Sadly, I'm telling the truth. I'd way prefer a nasal northern Beatley accent.