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# I'm often amazed at how carefully I have to listen to British-spoken (or sung) English
From this side of the pond the accents are so thick that, in some ways, it seems like a foreign language. Do Brits experience anything like this when Yanks speak?
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:32, archived)
# pardon?
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:34, archived)
# y'wot?
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:34, archived)
# We don't have accents.
You lot do. Weird ones.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:35, archived)
# we have lots of different dialects throughout the country
but all Brits sound the same to us. Probably because we aren't trained to hear differences there. Brits sound like Aussies, and some Canadians, etc
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:40, archived)
# What's that Ellis? Little Johnny has fallen down the well?
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:51, archived)
# no--the roin 'n Spoin fulls minely on th ploin!
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:55, archived)
# ACT FAST
www.nhs.uk/actfast/Pages/stroke.aspx

:D
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 16:59, archived)
# quick Lad--dial noin noin noin
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 17:01, archived)