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Originally posted by Amitabh Sharma:
Because as far as I know most Americans must have come from England.
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Originally posted by Amitabh Sharma:
Do all americans speak the same accent?
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Do all americans speak the same accent?
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Maybe it is what you are used to. I can tell what part of NY state a person is from by their accent. Every borough of NYC has a unique accent. Long Island (or Lung-eye-len as we pronounce it - just say it quick and slur it all together) has a unique accent. Upstaters have different accents, too. Depending on what part of upstate you come from your accent might be a bit New England or Canada or Pennsylvania.Originally posted by Marcus Green:
The USA has some regional variations (new yawk, the south etc), the differences are not as varied or as wide as the UK.
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and though Shaw may have been exaggerating that it was possible to recognize a persons origin down to the street, he was only exaggerating a little.
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Originally posted by Marcus Green:
In the UK it used to be that news readers would have a "received pronounciation" accent, which is a slightly posh southern UK accent.
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Unfortunately for this excellent story, no tickets with Posh stamped on them have been found and company records reveal no sign of the phrase.
Posh dates back to at least 1867 in the sense of meaning a dandy or fop. The best guess as to its origin is that it derives from Romani, the language of the Rom (commonly known as Gypsies). In Romani, posh means half and is used in monetary terms like posh-houri or half-pence, and posh-kooroona meaning half-crown. The progression from money to a fancy dresser to swank is logical, if undocumented. Alternatively, Partridge postulates that the "swanky" meaning of posh may be a contraction of polish.
" 's'abaht time I wallk'd them Corgis innit."
- The Queen (when one believes no one is listening to one)
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Originally posted by Marcus Green:
Understanding an accent is often just a matter of "tuning the ear". Thus it could be that Dilip hears Australian accents more rarely than UK or US, but if exposed more to that accent it would become intelligable fairly quickly.
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
I noticed that with a lot of the Birtish comedies we get here. After a few episodes their speech becomes more intelligible.
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Originally posted by Marcus Green:
Thomas.. but does it get funnier
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