What does your accent sound like?

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lol, I know exactly where you're coming from with the whole entertainment thing!!Despite my best efforts to speak properly, there is one word that forever stumps me, one small little annoying three letter word that has provided many hours of entertainment for my friends... and that word I hear you ask? well, it is: Bus, apparently (I don't hear it, I hear bus) I say Buzz, it's the one thing that I am forever picked up on!!! lol ... nvm though at least it's a fun quirk, for all of 2 seconds anyway lolSo, a new twist to this thread... any words that people love to hear you say, because of the way you say them? lolDan

I get made fun of more for expressions than my acctual accent. My family is from the REAL coal country... Newcastle and points north (thalk about an accent!.. divint dunch us, wor Geordies!)One that comes to mind is when I tell someone that that something's on the bench... apperently these un-educated colonists refer the to the flat surface in the kitchen as a "counter"

heh heh heh, I work with a geordie who's been living in London for years... he still sounds as nothern as they come lol ... of course, my main problem, wherever I go, to you, I'm a southerner, and anywhere south of the midlands, I'm a northerner... so, I declare independence from the north/south divide, and, henceforth shall be known as: The Midlander; There can be only one! lmaoon a side note, love the geordie accent Dan

'Thursday' apparently, has given rise to great amusement from foreigners. I was in the GPO (General Post Office) in the centre of Dublin City a couple of years ago and some English guy was standing beside me in the queue. The queue was very long and we got chatting. It was very long because there were only a couple of hatches open and the place was very crowded. I mentioned this to him and said "you'd think they'd know better than to have only a few hatches open on a Thursday - everyone gets paid on a Thursday". I never SAW anyone in such a high state of excited amusement at the utterance of a single word! We working class Dubs have a kind of low toned gravelly texture to our voices, and we’d pronounce that ‘Tuuurrrrzzday’. Apparently he found it the height of hilarity.He kept saying "ah say it again, say it again, go on, please say 'Thursday'" He kept on entreating me to say it, so I kept on responding, "Wednesday"..."Friday"...etc just to piss him off, lol.

BLOODY SOOTHENER!home rule for Northumbria!

hah hah hah, one of the great things about being in the forces is that I get to hear a myraid of different accents from accross the country, and all around the world for that matter, I have to say, I do love the Irish Accents on the whole, though, I find it difficult to understand sometimes, one of my good buddies from work being the perfect example... omg! get him going when he's drunk, it's like watching a little (honestly, if you dressed him in green and dyed his hair) leprachaun jumping around!! lol

Dan

A Dublin bloke I know returned from a weekend in England with the nastiest black eye I'd seen in a while and of course I asked him how he happened to aquire it; apparently he'd started talking in a bar and somebody had turned around and told him he was 'a typical paddy'. A row ensued and he got a black eye out of it.. Some people are so sensitive about these things, I'd be happy to be called a 'typical paddy', depending on the way it was put to me I suppose.

What part of Ireland is your friend from? If he's from Cork, none of us can understand them either!

omg... I could have sworn you were telling a very old joke when I started reading that story

Americans colloquially call police wagons "paddy" wagons. They don't understand the implication (or the history).

ha ha, was it any joke in particular?

yes... let's use your story as the set up...

>A Dublin bloke I know returned from a weekend in England with the nastiest black eye I'd seen in a while and of course I asked him how he happened to aquire it; apparently he'd started talking in a bar and somebody had turned around and told him he was 'a typical paddy'. A row ensued and he got a black eye out of it...

... I said to him "you let some fat London pansey give you a black eye?"
He said "now, now, let's not speak ill of the dead"

Ha ha ha; I must remember your ending!

I got a million of 'em

I'm not exactly sure if I have an accent. I live in Nebraska so I'm surrounded by southern accents a lot. I don't think I have too much of a southern accent though. If anything, I may sound more like a Brit (I could be wrong though) since I've been with my boyfriend who lives in the UK. I talk to him constantly so I'm sure at least a few terms and possibly some of his accent have rubbed off on me. I absolutely love the British accent though. Best accent in the world. =3

"I absolutely love the British accent though. Best accent in the world. =3 "

TOTALLY AGREE!!! ^_^ its so sexy. it sounds so smart...and sophisticated...and sexy..and.... *drools*it makes me melt :wink:

I have a british accent and i don't think its sexy at all, or sophisticated........

I find it bizzare how different the accents are in Ireland. A twenty minute journey in a car can take you into a whole different accent-zone, lol.

When I first met my ex-fiances family I hadnt a bloody clue what they were talking about. You can only say 'excuse me' so many times, so eventually when they'd be talking while looking in my direction I used to just nod and smile and say 'yes, yes' and hope I wasnt being rude! lol

**I love the irish accent i have to say........up here i speak english, down where i used to live i speak with a little bit of a scottish accent, i can't win!!! LOL

When i first moved up here, i couldn't understand a word anyone was saying they are very broad out here in the middle of no-where........i did the nodding thing a LOT! :smile: **

And dosent it make you feel like an awful eejit when you have to do that? Ha ha. I remember praying to God I wasnt being asked a question that required an absoloute 'NO', (such as, so I look fat is this?!) while I was there nodding away saying 'yes, yes'..!

I'm surrounded by southern accents a lot...Wait, what? Maybe it's just the part where you live at, or something, because I really never hear any southern accents. Bad grammar, yes. Word slurrage, yes. When I think of southern accents, I'm thinking the twang (like from Georgia)... Is that what you mean?