what the…? the sheila didn’t even have a crack at the australian accent?
the pleasures are few and far between in this wide brown land. but one mainstay of amusement for us has always been “accent” people buggering-up the national twang.
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Probably English people. All I meant is I have never had a harder time understanding native English speakers than when I spent a week in Swansea.
I’ve seen it. It is fun.
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A Washington DC taxi driver once told ,me that Americans mistake real English-from-England accents (except cockney and RP) for Australian.
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I’m still trying to figure out where in Scotland anybody would sound like that and I’ve got nothing. It’s not even a bad stereotype, I find it unrecognizable.
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Her southern accents aren’t very good, either. Of course, there are a lot more than two southern accents, but even the two she did were more stereotyped than authentic.
If she’s actually a dialect coach, this may explain why so many dialects in film and tv are soooo bad. And southern accents in film and tv are the worst. They either sound like Foghorn Leghorn, or they just sound like some weird mishmash of John Wayne and Andy Griffith. The worst was Benedict Cumberbatch in August:Osage County. Holy crap, that was distracting.
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The Yorkshire one sounds like a comedy Lancashire one, and the Scottish one is dreadful!
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The Brooklyn one sounded exactly like someone from the Midwest attempting to sound like they are from Brooklyn.
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Vic Reeve’s accent is not Yorkshire (although Jim Moir was born in Leeds).
What about Bob Mortimer’s?
Middlesbrough (similar to Darlington’s which is what Vic’s is) but not Yorkshire. Ian McMillan has a good accent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw0pULMdqzY
Worse than Maggie Smith in “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”?
I’d like to present possibly the worst Geordie accent of all time:
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I appreciate I’m treading on dangerous ground here, but I understood Middlesbrough to be in Yorkshire (though only just).
As recompense, may I offer:
I never saw Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Now I’m not sure I want to. And I had never heard of a Geordie before, so I have no way of judging how bad that is. I will take your word that it’s awful.
*hacks ears off with breadknife*
Why would you post something like that?
And here I was expecting something like this:
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Here’s a very, very good, but also very, very specific kind of Texas accent. I cracked up the first time I saw King of the Hill, because I just thought “I grew up with that guy!” Not literally, I just mean I knew people who sounded exactly like this.
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Hehehe, it’s like this one vine, what region is this gated community?
I’ve always been fond of that character on King of the Hill. Can’t say i’ve met anyone first hand that talked close to that but i have heard some thick creole/cajun accents before and that’s something to behold.
Americans are more apt to assume any accent from the former British empire is Irish. Unless its an Irish one. Then they assume its English. Though my coworkers are convinced my single Scottish regular is Australian. And the New Zealish woman who comes by occasionally is Scottish.
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New Zealish?
