@pm: " Hello all. As it's a little quiet (hey - even Justin seems to be resting
his keyboard ;) ) thought I'd drop this one in.
 Was watching the repeat of the last two episodes of Frasier last night. Now
speaking of odd UK accents (as we were with that Teacher's Pet thread) did
all ( and I suspect all in this group did) spot the peculiar accents of
Daphne's brothers? That would be Richard E Grant being some Oxbridge grad,
Robbie Coltrane doing a particularly indecipherable Glaswegian brogue and
the other actor (whose name I forget) attempting some sort of London East
End thing. Yet all are meant to be from Manchester.
Sort of wondering, as to many UK people all US accents sound the same-
remember I have lived on both continents, so I have a little advantage - but
still I'd say most British folks could not tell a Brooklyn accent from
Birmingham (Alabama, that is). Seems especially odd as Britain has a huge
diversity of accents. Just wondering if the same may be true of US ears to
UK voices.
 None of the above is important of course,  but sometimes I'm curious about
such matters.
 PM
 (PS: Sorry, I have to get this in. When the three brothers leave the
apartment singing "We hate Nottingham Forest, we hate Liverpool too, (and
Leeds) we hate Manchester City, but United we love you". I can confirm that
is a valid Manchester United Soccer chant from at least 1975. Well...I did
say OT in the title!)."
    @pm: "Hi. As I predicted, you guys are no proper test group!
NB: if you had an Eng Lit Prof that could just be the standard UK University
accent (though they also have differences) and not London.
If you want to do an accent from my Welsh homeland, just do an Indian (the
country) accent badly. Or  pronounce, in a really exasperated manner, the
dish "ratatouille". It just sounds Welsh. You probably would have needed to
have heard the accent and language to get that but it makes me laugh.
OK - maybe we should take this off line.
Nos Da!
PM
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    @abuse: "<quote>
Sure it is.  Some people have an ear for accents, and some don't.  For 
example, in the "jump the shark" entry for Lifestyles of the Rich and 
Famous, someone mentions Robin Leach's "uppity British accent."  Now, 
for those who recall Robin Leach...he was pretty downmarket.  But to 
many American ears, any British accent is "uppity" or "high-class."
I can sort of tell the difference between British accents, but usually 
just enough to vaguely classify them as "posh" (Oxbridge), "downmarket" 
(cockney and other "wrong side of the tracks" type-accents), and 
"Ooh-arrrr, oh-arrr" (farmers).  Yes, I know this is really broad 
categorization, but that's about the best I seem able to do.
But I feel better when I realize that many British performers apparently 
have only TWO categories of American accents: cowboys and game show 
hosts.   :)
-Lulu"
    @bobnet: "<quote>
I can't distinguish the various British accents, but New Zealand vs.
Australian is no problem for me.
In the many years of French I took in school, I've had at least three
teachers from Quebec, one from France, and one from Belgium. So no
wonder I can't speak it at all :-)
That was a great documentary, one that I wouldn't mind seeing again. I
somehow gained a copy of the book of the same name, which is an
invaluable resource (mainly due to the references) for answering the
emails I get asking the differences between various forms of English and
the forms spoken in Canada (several people have asked, probably because
of my abuse of Canadian English in The Hoser :-) )
Chris "Bob" Odorjan - <email_address>
BobNET - <url>"
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