How can anyone have a BRITISH accent?

Question

I think you'll find it's : 'you're only 'spose to blow the bladdy doors off!' (Michael Caine, Italian Job). (By the way I'm English, and yes this is a stupid question, thanks for pointing out the obvious!)

Answer 1

I agree. I think it's only Americans who say "Gee, I love your British accent!" A lot of them wouldn't understand Geordie, anyway (or a number of other regional accents).

I haven't an accent, of course, since my mother told me 'not to speak like the village boys'! As a result, I have a pale, featureless and very 'proper' manner of speech.

Answer 2

Ive never heard that expression. A British accent. English, yes. Scottish, yes, Welsh, yes. Irish, yes; but never British.

There is a distinction when you hear them speak. I am from London, however even in this city, there are numerous different accents - the thing that connects them is the language and the sounds they use to say their chosen words; as well as the unifying recognition of the region that they come from...

it is the same for the Americans. Someone from Texas doesn't speak the same way as someone from Seattle, however there is a certain 'twang' in the way that both sets of people speak, that tells you that they are 'American'.

Answer 3

Well, I guess, if you practiced. A British accent is pretty broad, though, just like in the States. Not even all Londoners speak the same way and Britain encompasses England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Answer 4

Like an earlier response says, there are all kinds of British type accents. World wide, probably one of the most commonly recognized forms of English accents is referred to as "BBC English." It's not a particularly natural form, having roots in England's upper class prep and univeristy schools. If you hear a poititician speaking it, he/she problably picked it up at school rather than home.

Answer 5

There is no such thing as a British accent . Scots, Irish, Welsh and English all have different accents. And within each nation some accents are very different.

Answer 6

Ummmmm they have a very mixed accent and kind of sound Northern Irish sometimes and Scottish sometimes and English sometimes and Welsh sometimes and all the different accents that all those countries have in them sometimes too, that would sound well daft, someone going from a Brummie to a Glasgow to a Cockney to a posh :P

People from North London are hard! hahahahahahahahaha!

Answer 7

All people who grew up here have a british accent, its just the dialect that differs from town to town, but also remember its harder for outsiders to hear than our own trained ears.
For example in the next town along they speak in a more cockney common accent than here, however someone from Newcastle can't hear the difference and i probably wouldn't be able to spot it in his home town either!

Answer 8

I was taught to say me P's & Q's. always be polite and never drop your H's. Is that British or just pronunciation? There is no such thing as a british accent, all accents are regional wherever you go in the world.

Answer 9

why do people always think that if you are english you talk like a butler....lol i'm from london and we dont talk posh at all ...we talk like ray winstone or micheal caine.swear like fcukin troopers and don't pronounce or h's or t's.......


i only said to blow the fackin doors off!!!!!


yea i know its bladdy bladdy but im from norf fackin landun so we are right 'ard fcukers round ere gal

thats how we say it on the street innit .........

grrrrr im gonna blow svens fackin doors right off.... what a muppet

Answer 10

the british accent is varied across the many towns and cities, you have the 'brummies' the 'cockneys' and the 'northeners' as well as many others. The accent most forigners refer to as 'the british accent' is mostly only used by the 'upper class' people of britian.

Answer 11

How stupid is this question? A british accent is one from any part of England, with regional dialects. I've got a Brummie accent! I love it!