Insightful English documentary threatens to undermine godless evolution 'science'

[Cyberman]

For some unfathomable reason, I'm not surprised.

[Jenny A]

May be a northwest thing, Jen - even my Midwestern ex wife thinks I have a Canadian accent (I don't).

(Then again, my mom's side of the family emigrated to the US from Canada.)

Maybe, but I grew up in the Rockies, and I think that's what I still sound like. Not that there's much difference between the Northwest and the Mountain West when it comes to accents. From The West Coast all the way to the Great Lakes, Americans all sound pretty much the same: Midwestern.

[Jackalope]

May be a northwest thing, Jen - even my Midwestern ex wife thinks I have a Canadian accent (I don't).

(Then again, my mom's side of the family emigrated to the US from Canada.)

Maybe, but I grew up in the Rockies, and I think that's what I still sound like. Not that there's much difference between the Northwest and the Mountain West when it comes to accents. From The West Coast all the way to the Great Lakes, Americans all sound pretty much the same: Midwestern.

Oh, I dunno - I can definitely tell the difference between SoCal and Cheesehead. :p

[Chas]

"monkey ladies-in-waiting"

I'm Canadian, living in the U.S. (sort of Yankanuck?) and I can definitely hear the differences among accents within the U.K. and Commonwealth countries. I can even locate them some of the time.

[Whateverist]

I can't tell the difference between accents unless people really speak up. Most people in the UK and former UK don't seem to have a good handle on standard american english. Not their fault really. (I'm pretty sure "Scottish" is a synonym for gibberish, isn't it?)

[robvalue]

If you think Scottish is weird you should try reading something in Welsh.

[paulpablo]

I read the comments before clicking on the vid (can't be too careful with Whateverist around,
of course I would have to do a couple of pages of comments if it were Min who posted that).
It was very good, and a bit funny.
I like the childlikeness projected by the woman and I love the English accent.
Does Stimbo speak like that?
What about our accents?
Do you Brits cringe when we talk?
Didn't mean to get too far off topic but I'm curious.

That's a northern accent. Sounds yorkshire to me but it could be lancashire or manchester too. It's actually fairly close to what my accent does sound like.
I cringe when I hear some American accents, but for some reason even though I live in England I cringe at our words for sex and sexual body parts.
Bum willy shag arse for example.

[ReptilianPeon]

Yeah, that's northern she's speaking. Personally, being from kent, I speak the queens english (think colin firth).

The first video you provided (about U.K. accents) misses out Birmingham for some reason. Seems a bit unfair to me. But I'm from the South East region myself, Kent in fact, so everywhere else seems so far away from me (who knows, maybe if I decide to join my local skeptics group, a monthly meet-up in a pub I think, I'll see you there). I suppose it's because I have some relatives who live in the Birmingham area so I feel sorry for them for being left out!

[pocaracas]

Oh Britain...

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[robvalue]

Hey I'm in Kent too But it's pretty obvious I wasnt (in)bred round here by my farmer accent. I represent one of the three surnames in Norfolk :p