I'm from Canada
So all this back-and-forth about accents is mystifying me.

Listen.

You all have accents.

I quote the brilliant duo Lonely Island when I say
"Last week, I saw a film/as I recall it was a horror film".

If that those lines rhyme for you, something is up.

I love accents, and I think that trying to decipher thickly accented English is actually really fun, and I definitely am not saying that I pronounce everything phonetically, but seriously? Norfolk? Suffolk? Midfolk? I'm sorry but to me, it is like a nation of people with blue moustaches arguing about whether their moustache is azure or indigo.

You all have blue moustaches!


Ahem. Sorry, yeah, had to say that. Stuff that I did to fit in.. let'se see, smoked a tampon once.

Actually, hold on, twice.
(Poogle, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 22:45, 12 replies)

I'm not surprised
you're having trouble with our accents. Coming from Canada you only have two different accents. American and pretend-French.

I went to university in Wales and once picked out somebody from my home town in a queue for a kebab van based on his voice. I'm from Surrey, an area generally thought of as being accentless, too. Yorkshire accents/dialects are like an alien language to me.

Funny old world, eh?
( Kroney, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 23:05, closed)

Yep Kroney
Mackems vs Geordies / Sheffield vs Barnsley - they can tell the difference even if you can't and it's very fucking important when dealing with neanderthal, "You ain't from round here" types.

Thus subtle (or even not so subtle) faked accents are very on-topic for a question about trying to fit in eh? subtle Canada joke FTW
( djtrialprice, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 23:14, closed)

Accents are a funny old thing here
And can be a very big part of your identity... if you let it be that way.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 19 Jan 2009, 23:51, closed)

It's not aboot accents
It's aboot national identity, it's aboot respect, it's...

What?
(Axeman Jim, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 0:32, closed)

I'm from South Lanarkshire.
People from only maybe 100 miles away have difficulty understanding me...... or as I would say it, unnerstonnin mi.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 0:46, closed)

Accents
I'm from Texas(yes I can ride a horse, yes I have guns) and every time I travel either in the US or else where no one can tell where I'm from by my accent. All my friends that were born here in Texas have no accent at all.
(seshmarls, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 2:54, closed)

Of course you have an accent
It's called the hick accent, or the "Ah dun shot me a squirrul!!" accent.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 20 Jan 2009, 8:50, closed)

In Texas?
I thought that was supposed to be more Alabama and that sort of region than Texas?

I mean based strictly on people at work (along with Simpsons parodies and people I've briefly met in pubs / shops), Texans don't seem to have a "hick" accent.

*Accepts he may be wrong due to Englishness*
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 10:11, closed)

As far as I know
It's anywhere south of the Mason Dixie line...
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 20 Jan 2009, 18:19, closed)

"like a nation of people with blue moustaches arguing about whether their moustache is azure or indigo"
great imagery :-D
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 10:28, closed)

So that's why many men with moustaches
look like they belong in the Navy
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 10:30, closed)

On the subject of my accent...
I don't really consider myself to have one. I live inside the M25 but not really in London so I'm not a cockney but not from the Shires either.

I mean I clearly have an accent compared to other people from up and down the country but I just assume I pronounce words the way they're meant to be pronounced, which I know is really naive.

Except for rant, I pronounce it raRnt whereas I'm assured it's just rant.
(Martin1337 was trying and failing to be funny at, Wed 21 Jan 2009, 1:59, closed)