• American and British English
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[QUOTE=MrChips;28333613]Now then, it's a small world. Any ideas why your sister has this hybrid mutant accent? In a bit.[/QUOTE] Ahh, 's all that bloody foreign telly. BRB, getting some spoggy.
[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;28351046]Ahh, 's all that bloody foreign telly. BRB, getting some spoggy.[/QUOTE] [b][I]"Mommy, I'm scared! What is it?!"[/I][/b]
[QUOTE=DesumThePanda;28349258]Moustache-Mustache[/QUOTE] which is which? i've always spelled it "moustache"
[QUOTE=AlienFanatic;28296553]whatever you do, dont have a southern accent it makes you sound like a retarded slave owner[/QUOTE] "Dem negroes is properteh" Moustache is not a word according to firefox.
Us Wisconsinites and our crazy "Tyme Machines". Our our fancy "Bubbler" And ley us not forget the "Pop".
[QUOTE=Testabar;28356414]Us Wisconsinites and our crazy "Tyme Machines". Our our fancy "Bubbler" And ley us not forget the "Pop".[/QUOTE] Soda
[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;28351046]Ahh, 's all that bloody foreign telly. BRB, getting some spoggy.[/QUOTE] Spoggy, oh my days that's a word which throws people when I say it outside of the local area. This needs more butchering of the English language through local dialect, so here's how it's done - "Went down beach after gooing t' the bag wash wi' me goodies. Me lugs were hearing that someone had a cob on about the price o' goodies but it was all ovver nowt. It reminds me of the time I had the opportunity to speak to someone from Texas and they were shocked that I didn't speak how they stereotypically expected me to. I was speaking as I normally would and it was nye on impossible for her to understand me, yet we spoke the same language. It's fascinating. [editline]1st March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=SoaringScout;28355993]"Dem negroes is properteh" Moustache is not a word according to firefox.[/QUOTE] Because Firefox is in American English.
[QUOTE=MrChips;28358318] Because Firefox is in American English.[/QUOTE] ...by default. I find it funny how many people I know who can't be bothered to change language to GB. It's quite sad how my local dialect (Somerset/Bristolian) is slowly dying. It used to be very common to hear a string of words that sounded a bit like a different language. Now a Bristolian either sounds like a farmer in a ghetto, or has one of those "no accent" things. Here's the start of the chorus of an old west-country comedy song about someone's bad parking: "Oh thee's gott'n wur thee cassn't back'n assn't! Thee's gott'n in a fine ole mess someow. Thee's never aught'a stuck 'im in thur dissn't. So what bist gonna do about 'im now?" There's a lot of words that are left-over Old English (which is traceable to Germanic Saxon) but it seems to be nearly gone now (probably because nobody could understand us).
[QUOTE=GunFox;28301088] In general the north west of the United States actually sticks to the rules of English the best in terms of pronunciation. They are very clear spoken. [/QUOTE] I always thought lots of areas in US had a very plain, neutral accent, but I don't know if that's just because it's the one I'm used to.
[QUOTE=MrChips;28358318]"Went down beach after gooing t' the bag wash wi' me goodies. Me lugs were hearing that someone had a cob on about the price o' goodies but it was all ovver nowt.[/QUOTE] :golfclap:
[QUOTE=Mingebox;28359535]I always thought lots of areas in US had a very plain, neutral accent, but I don't know if that's just because it's the one I'm used to.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I don't know either, would the accent for the Washington DC area be considered neutral? It's definitely not Southern.
I started on American English, but I think over the internet I've picked up some British English things from friends.
[QUOTE=b4nny;28316883]More examples of awful spelling: Realize with a Z accurately represents the word phonetically, because it's pronounced with a "z" sound instead of an "s."[/QUOTE] I actually pronounce "realise" with a soft s.
I don't see how a few misspellings and pronunciations make for such a huge difference. Its just the local dialect
[QUOTE=MrChips;28358318]Spoggy, oh my days that's a word which throws people when I say it outside of the local area. This needs more butchering of the English language through local dialect, so here's how it's done - "Went down beach after gooing t' the bag wash wi' me goodies. Me lugs were hearing that someone had a cob on about the price o' goodies but it was all ovver nowt. It reminds me of the time I had the opportunity to speak to someone from Texas and they were shocked that I didn't speak how they stereotypically expected me to. I was speaking as I normally would and it was nye on impossible for her to understand me, yet we spoke the same language. It's fascinating. [editline]1st March 2011[/editline] Because Firefox is in American English.[/QUOTE] What's American English? I've heard of American terminology but not American English.
My favorite is NEW ORLEANS YAT! LOL it's so incorrect. Dawlin'.
[QUOTE=yoyoking321;28431553]My favorite is NEW ORLEANS YAT! LOL it's so incorrect. Dawlin'.[/QUOTE] N'awlins. :3:
[QUOTE=SoaringScout;28428882]What's American English? I've heard of American terminology but not American English.[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English[/url]
obviously I am an american
[QUOTE=SoaringScout;28428882]What's American English? I've heard of American terminology but not American English.[/QUOTE] The one with the Z's instead of S's and the lack of U's in certain words.
Where I live we pronounce Idea - Eye dear Car - Caah
I am from central Ohio so I have a neutral accent :smug: everyone can understand me. It seems like most other countries think that the majority of Americans have a southern accent and are hillbillies, yet, I only know 2 people who have a southern accent (my mom's friend's husband, and my sister who has lived in arkansas her whole life.) There aren't too many states with primarily neutral accents, they're usually just a slightly different kind of accent that's kind of neutral.
[QUOTE=jdme;28432581]I am from central Ohio so I have a neutral accent :smug: everyone can understand me. It seems like most other countries think that the majority of Americans have a southern accent and are hillbillies, yet, I only know 2 people who have a southern accent (my mom's friend's husband, and my sister who has lived in arkansas her whole life.) There aren't too many states with primarily neutral accents, they're usually just a slightly different kind of accent that's kind of neutral.[/QUOTE] I grew up in a rural town in Idaho. I hear from city people that we have a little bit of a drawl, but I've never noticed. I'm pretty sure I've got a neutral American accent. The older Mormons I'm around do have an accent though. They sorta talk like Sarah Palin. They drop the g on the end of a word, like 'swimming' and make it sound like "een". Swimmeen.
[QUOTE=JeffAndersen;28233931]Hell America alone has all kind of random accents that fucks up words. I apparently can't say "bag" (I say is like behg, but obviously not beg) cause I'm from Minnesota. After I joined the military though it was interesting to see all kinds of people and their accents.[/QUOTE] haha I have a friend who says bagel just like its spelled when in America its pronounced " beh gul"
[QUOTE=deathdealer2009;28433114]haha I have a friend who says bagel just like its spelled when in America its pronounced " beh gul"[/QUOTE] I say "bay-gul".
I alternate between 'color' and 'colour' just to annoy my English teacher, even though I don't care about the small differences in the way we speak.
America the land of the free
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY[/media] Extremely relevant.
One that really pisses me off is "centrifugal" CENT-RIFICAL??? WHAT?? :gonk: Cent-ri-fuge-al
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