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annoying british accents
there's a girl at work who's got the most annoying british accent i've heard so far.
she can't pronounced 'eee' it always comes out like 'ay'
like 'isn't that lovelay' or 'how have you bayn'
i don't know why but this irritates me.
but other than that she's really nice and funny so it's ok.
i finally asked her where she's from and she said from near manchester
are there worse accents out there?
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Re: annoying british accents
birmingham.
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Re: annoying british accents
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Re: annoying british accents
i quite like the scottish accent :P
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Re: annoying british accents
aye, she does ^_^
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Re: annoying british accents
Scottish accents are cool. I don't like those you accents either, they're evil. Apparently I have a nice accent
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Re: annoying british accents
Everyone that wasn't brought up listening to Radio 4 has a crap accent
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Re: annoying british accents
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Everyone that wasn't brought up listening to Radio 4 has a crap accent
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it's so rare that you and i agree that I feel we should share this special moment.
alright that's quite enough of that.
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Re: annoying british accents
i guess i'll discover more when i visit the uk.
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Re: annoying british accents
I always found Scousers and west Walians annoying.
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Re: annoying british accents
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it's so rare that you and i agree that I feel we should share this special moment.
alright that's quite enough of that.
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Re: annoying british accents
i want to meet yahwe
i have an image of of him dressed in a suit with a cane saying 'cheerio' and stuff like that
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Re: annoying british accents
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i want to meet yahwe
i have an image of of him dressed in a suit with a cane saying 'cheerio' and stuff like that
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Re: annoying british accents
these cockney ones are beginning to grate...
Love a soft yorkshire one though
I have the bad habit of absorbing parts of accents...
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I have the bad habit of absorbing parts of accents...
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My girlfriend does this - I can tell who she's been speaking to last depending on her accent and how she phrases everything. Sad, but true.
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Re: annoying british accents
Brummies
ANYONE from East Anglia or surrounding areas.
People from Devon
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Re: annoying british accents
There's nothing worse than hearing a broad Cumbrian accent on the radio/TV.
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Nay.
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Re: annoying british accents
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she can't pronounced 'eee' it always comes out like 'ay'
like 'isn't that lovelay' or 'how have you bayn'
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Sound like Brummie or even yam yam.
I like the Yorkshire accent on women (not sure what part exactly) e.g Melanie Sykes in the old Boddingtons adverts "would you like a flake in that?"
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Sound like Brummie or even yam yam.
I like the Yorkshire accent on women (not sure what part exactly) e.g Melanie Sykes in the old Boddingtons adverts "would you like a flake in that?"
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The fact the line is 'cream of Manchester' should give you a clue neither Boddington's or Mel Sykes are from the wrong side of the Pennines .
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Re: annoying british accents
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i quite like the scottish accent :P
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The fact the line is 'cream of Manchester' should give you a clue neither Boddington's or Mel Sykes are from the wrong side of the Pennines .
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I have a feeling you may be correct. I still would though.
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Re: annoying british accents
The Welsh accent.
I defy anyone to find any other accent more annoying.
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Re: annoying british accents
Some welsh accents can sound quite sexy actually.
A strong birmingham accent is so depressing though. In my mind it just sounds like they're saying "Ohhhh **** I wiiiiish I was deaaaad" whenever they talk.
EIRE accents are sexy as hell.
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Just can't fight the feeling anymore teekay?
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After a while they get annoying, especially if they are very high pitched and very very very fast!
my least favourite accent is probably "south london chav", if i hear a girl speak like that, however good looking they are, i immediately lose interest.
thats probably just because I was brought up to look down on people who spoke like that though
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Re: annoying british accents
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are there worse accents out there?
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Youve obviously never been to Scotland then , Take your pick from:
1)Ned/jakie Glasweigan accent
(example) Whit ya doin ya bam gie us yir carry oot or ill pit yir heed threa a windae!
2) Annoying scottish East coast accent
(example) Fair aboots are ye headin oot tonight? aye a ken a place well
3) Silly coarse inverness accents
4) southern should be in england Border accents ( Note i usually avoid talking to people with this accent as the accents just grinds on me.
But we do have two great accents
1) The Highland male accent, (sexy and deep as spoken by my own lips)
2) The Outer Hebridean female accent ( those high and low changes are second in pure audio delight only to their irish cousins!)
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like 'isn't that lovelay'
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This is the correct pronounciation fyi
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no it isn't
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(been actually does have a different correct british pronunciation, bEn. still no bAn tho)
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2) The Outer Hebridean female accent ( those high and low changes are second in pure audio delight only to their irish cousins!)
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THIS IS THE OUTER HEBRIDES BROADCASTING CORPORATION CALLING ..... CIVILISATION!
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Re: annoying british accents
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these cockney ones are beginning to grate...
Love a soft yorkshire one though
I have the bad habit of absorbing parts of accents...
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so do i
i've been in Hull for eight weeks now and i keep catching myself saying things like "aye"
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Yes it is, I dont think I've ever heard someone say love-lee.
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Yes it is, I dont think I've ever heard someone say love-lee.
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Everyone says love-lee in Essex. Well, the non-stupid people anyway.
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Yes it is, I dont think I've ever heard someone say love-lee.
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all the dictionaries i can find say luv-lE*. And all I've ever heard from non-brits is lee. I'm loathe to say that any given pronunciation is 'wrong' because i feel it's all pretty arbitrary, but i do feel comfortable saying that pronunciations which are unsupported by dictionaries cannot accurately be called 'correct.'
*except one that thought it could settle the issue by putting it as "luv-ly". Thanks, assholes.
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I say love-lee
because it's the correct way to say it.
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birmingham.
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the birmingham accent is actually fairly normal. the accent you probably mean is "the black country" accent which i would agree is horrific.
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I keep finding myself saying "Is it" instead of "orly" or "you serious?" sometimes. It's a South London thing and it makes me sound shit.
I don't say it at school, luckily. It's like swearing, I just don't allow myself to do it.
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the birmingham accent is actually fairly normal. the accent you probably mean is "the black country" accent which i would agree is horrific.
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no i mean the birmingham accent.
which is not normal
unless you live in birmingham.
it's vile.
the black country accent is less vile. but still vile.
don't ever try to tell me what I meant again.
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no it isn't
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I like most accents. They make things more interesting. I would hate it if everyone sounded the same.
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After a while they get annoying, especially if they are very high pitched and very very very fast!
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They really are
Im from eire, but I got landed in belfast. I cringe when I hear our shite accent on TV. Its awful.
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no i mean the birmingham accent.
which is not normal
unless you live in birmingham.
it's vile.
the black country accent is less vile. but still vile.
don't ever try to tell me what I meant again.
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i don't live in birmingham, i live in solihull. how you can possibly say a birmingham accent is worse than a black county one is beyond me.
don't ever try to threaten me on the internet again.
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Heh, Yahwe is fukkin ded !
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The standard birmingham accent isn't too bad actually, I agree with Add. It is the black country one that Aryn seems to be describing.
A brummie accent isn't strong enough for it to sound like that.
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Re: annoying british accents
"lovelay" is how someone doing an exaggerated impression of a midlands accent might say it; no-one there actually would (retards excepted)
besides which, the bint in question is explicitly identified as being from "near manchester"
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Re: annoying british accents
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i don't live in birmingham, i live in solihull. how you can possibly say a birmingham accent is worse than a black county one is beyond me.
don't ever try to threaten me on the internet again.
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solihull is part of that great shithole that is birmingham.
I expect that you've got one of those god awful birmingham accents. hence your trying to defend them.
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solihull is part of that great shithole that is birmingham.
I expect that you've got one of those god awful birmingham accents. hence your trying to defend them.
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i'm not interested in arguing. solihull is not part of birmingham.
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