Haha OK so this is kinda a stupid question but...?

Question

Uhhh I'm Im American and when I listen to British accents I can tell that some people have different accents than others but really they all soind the same to me. Does the way you talk differ depending on what region you're from in England? Can you tell the difference between our different accents. I mean like how we talk differently in Texas, Alabama, ...California, the Midwest, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Boston...etc... w/e it's a stupid question but I was just thinkin how to British people we have accents and thats so funny to me...anyway...k. :D OK thanks!

whats a "scouser" ? haha someone said that...and yes Bush's accent is Southern...and no I dont like Bush haha but who does anymore? Its ux he's our countries represantation...anyway enough about politics :D

Haha someone asked who the south park accent is...idk but I can give you an example of diff. one. i already said Bush's is Texan, ummm...well the mafia movies are New York, ummm California's is hard for me b/c thats how I talk so I just think of that as the normal one lol but alot of people on TV talk like me if they aren't purposley using an accent for their character

O and sry if I offended you b/c someone axplained that theres diff. countries that fit into Britain and now I know so sorry! I didnt know that...

Answer 1

accents from all areas are very different and even the way we pronounce names can be very different - funny too. I struggle with the norfold accent - its just wrong

Answer 2

People from the south of England generally talk like the Queen. (Apologies people for the massive generalisation there) and the accents do vary depending on where you live.

Yup I can tell the difference between certain American accents. Probably not as much as Americans can but New York accents and Southern accents seem very distinct. It is occasionally difficult to hear the difference between Canadian and American accents. (for me anyway, hey just being honest.)

Answer 3

I'm English and we do, as you say, have many regional accents. Some are very strong and are broadly categorised into

Northern
North West
North East
Midlands
South West
London
South East
East Anglia

Within each of these regions there are area accents such as

Liverpool (Scouse)
Manchester (Manc)
Birmingham (Brummie)
Newcastle (Geordie)
London (Cockney)
Cornish (Oh ar, oh ar)

All these are very strong and often not easy to understand by those from other regions. However due to the advent of television and radio over the last 75 years or so a sort of 'Middle English' has evolved that everybody understands and that is without much of an accent. It is spoken by newsreaders and so on so that the whole country understands.

American accents are, to us, very pronounced ranging from such ones as New York (Saying goyls for girls), Mid West, Southern, South West, Texan etc. generally the more south you go the more rounded the accent. Sometimes words are distorted like you saying 'mathur' for 'mother'.Listen carefully to your T V programmes and you will note the differences. I have spoken to other Americans and. for some reason, they do seem to find it difficult to distinguish U S Regional accents. To me they are really strong.

Answer 4

Nay lass, theres a lot a diffrens 'bout my accent t'tha of them southern foke. U'north i's more broad. We drop or vowels, H's & T's an don quite comple a word ear and thur.

Can tell wi' Americans differen accents, bu I don' rightly know were thur from.

Above is quite general for North West England, and the sound of accents still varies widely for instance, only 30 odd miles between Manchester and Liverpool, and yet although both drop vowels etc. neither understand the other immediately, but we tune in relatively quickly

Answer 5

Us people up here in Scotland (Scottish) talk different from the people from England (English) who talk different from the people from Wales (Welsh) who talk different from the people from Ireland (Irish) which all together we are British. There are 4 countries that make up Britain and we don't all come from England.
Just wanted to let you know that us lot who don't live in England don't like being called English, British yes, but not English and we all do speak different.
I think most of your accents sound very alike, apart from a Southern accent and there is a difference in the way people talk when they're from New York.


Hay dodgergirl, that's ok sweetie no offence taken just wanted to let you know. xx

Answer 6

There's a huge variety of accent in Btitain. There are local dialects as well as regional ones. It can change from village to village, that's how vast the spectrum is. There are so many different influences that it gives rise to an explosion of diversity.
We can hear different accents from the States I think. But I wouldn't be any good at knowing which accent goes with which State.

Answer 7

If you ever come to Britain or Ireland you will hear regional accents in different parts of the country. There are quite strong differences in places just 30 or 40 miles apart.

Answer 8

I agree with Blue Apple.
Sometimes I spot different US accents but I dont know where they are from. You know that accent that the school teacher has in South Park? Where he says "mmmOKaaaaay".
Once I heard someone speak exactly like that in real life. Which US state is that accent from?

Answer 9

It is the same as the US and Canada...the funny thing is that my relatives in England and Ireland think I have an accent...but have to tell you met a woman yesterday that had an Irish accent and she never lived in Ireland...she lived in Argentina...but educated by Irish nuns...so I guess it depends on the accents around you...

I am Canadian and Irish...lived in England, Ireland, Australia and Canada...I have been mistaken as a British, Irish, Australian and Canadian...it all depends on the word that I say.

Answer 10

Well I can tell the difference between aNew York accent and a Texas one and I realise you all have differfent accents the same as different regions of the UK have differing accents

Answer 11

accents go by regions.
cockney-london
brummie-birmingham
scouser-liverpool
jordie-newcastle
those are the ones i can think of right now, every region has a different accent and within each region are different dialects.
i can teel the difference between most of the different accents in the us.