British 🇬🇧

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You can become British if you put your mind to it. It is not called delusion nor mental illness. You are British. Don't let others tell you otherwise. Sip that tea, Briton!

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Does King Charles pronounce it British or Bri-esh? If King Charles were to omit the t, I would be sorely disappointed. My royal family fantasy world would come crumbling down as would my faith in education.

[Masque]

Originally posted by BunnieBealla:

Originally posted by Jelly:

The biggest insult I was told ever was someone said I look similar with JK rowling

I've been told I sound like the Queen, but also Adele uwu

The Queen spoke perfect Received English, understandable to anyone who understands English at all, and Adele talks with a cockney that could belong to a 17th century chimney sweep. Most Americans can't understand Adele when she speaks. She's got the equivalent accent to the most unintelligible found in the Louisiana bayou.

And you sound like *both*?

That's something.

[Masque]

Originally posted by saranacX:

Question for Brits in here: Which accent says bo'ol o wo'oh (bottle of water)?

I'm not a Brit, as you are well aware, but you are probably describing the cockney accent.

One step above "chav" in the hierarchy, I believe.

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

Originally posted by saranacX:

Question for Brits in here: Which accent says bo'ol o wo'oh (bottle of water)?

Portsmouth can sound like that.

They make some other weird sounds too, like if they say "Gate ate" to you it means "Get out"

[saranacX]

Originally posted by Masque:

Originally posted by saranacX:

Question for Brits in here: Which accent says bo'ol o wo'oh (bottle of water)?

I'm not a Brit, as you are well aware, but you are probably describing the cockney accent.

One step above "chav" in the hierarchy, I believe.

Trying to remember if I ever heard Del Boy say that. He did say an-e-by-o-ics (anti-biotics) so maybe.

[Chaosolous]

Oi! Govna! 'ello poppet.

That's all I got.
Did I pass the citizenship test?

[Masque]

Received is the best accent on the island, if you ask me.

Think Siegfried in BBC's "All Creatures Great and Small".

I wish I had that accent.

[saranacX]

Originally posted by Abaddon the Despoiler:

Originally posted by saranacX:

Question for Brits in here: Which accent says bo'ol o wo'oh (bottle of water)?

Portsmouth can sound like that.

They make some other weird sounds too, like if they say "Gate ate" to you it means "Get out"

When I think Portsmouth I think Christopher Hitchens. I Can't imagine him talking that way.

[Skkooomer Lord]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Oi! Govna! 'ello poppet.

That's all I got.
Did I pass the citizenship test?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHpoiZGya0s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51PyZeidmxM

[☮ne✟rue𝓢ax☯n]

I'm Scouse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9BcIsCqX6s

[trousers]

Originally posted by saranacX:

Question for Brits in here: Which accent says bo'ol o wo'oh (bottle of water)?

Traditionally most people would associate it with the accents of London and the South East, but it's the sort of thing that's a bit random really, it just weighs more heavily in that direction.

The stereotype is of course, Cockney, because it's way way harder there and more of a really hard and gruff glottal stop deep in the throat.

It's complicated a little by class as well because people from more privileged backgrounds and educations tend to speak with a few more features of RP in their speech. Which as we all know has a bit of a hard and clear T in it. As a result of which you can hear a middle-class well-educated Yorkshireman's T sounds from about a hundred miles away. Massive levels of over-enunciation. It's an amusing thing to experience. Just got to watch out for all the sheep it summons.

[Electric Cupcake]

Originally posted by Masque:

Originally posted by BunnieBealla:

I've been told I sound like the Queen, but also Adele uwu

The Queen spoke perfect Received English, understandable to anyone who understands English at all, and Adele talks with a cockney that could belong to a 17th century chimney sweep. Most Americans can't understand Adele when she speaks. She's got the equivalent accent to the most unintelligible found in the Louisiana bayou.

And you sound like *both*?

That's something.

The Lambeth Walk is something of a Cockney Anthem, and according to Wiki, the late Queen Elizabeth was a fan, joining in with the "Oi!" chorus during performances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fgKn3SbCYQ

[Pierce Dalton]

So many Americans making fun of British accent... have they ever heard a Texan accent?

[Masque]

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

So many Americans making fun of British accent... have they ever heard a Texan accent?

The British have lots of silly accents. And we have lots of silly accents, too.

It's all in good fun. But we have inner city hood slang, on top of Mainer, Boston (incl. N. Boston, S. Boston, Boston Brahmin, and more), NJ/NYC, Minnesooota, straight up Boomhauer hillbilly, the always-unintelligible Cajun, and a thousand more accents the TV News people must all have heavily trained out of them before they can even get a job.

[Effigy]

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

So many Americans making fun of British accent... have they ever heard a Texan accent?

thankfully, not enough of them are familiar with how kiwis speak