RE: Meet your new forum admin: Stimbo
January 28, 2015 at 7:43 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2015 at 7:44 pm by Cyberman.)
(January 28, 2015 at 7:17 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Any accent spoken by a person born or raised in some part of England---see simple.
Just like American accents, there are a bunch of British ones.
I can remember being amused by a Brit in Yorkshire who didn't think I had an American accent. What he meant was it wasn't Southern, Texan, New Jersey, Valley Girl, or Boston and yet I was still white. For him, everything else was Canadian, Australian, or New Zealander. Where Canadians are more popular than U.S. citizens, this is a great advantage to those of us traveling from the Midwest, Southwest, Northwest, Mountain West, or Great Lakes United States.
That's what I mean, there's no such thing as 'a' British accent. The traditionally-accepted stereotypes are either Received Pronunciation, BBC English and Cockney. And whatever Dick Van Dyke was doing in Mary Poppins (giggety).
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