Oh the things we take for grantedFollow

Very true. It seems that American actors tend to avoid more regional accents though. Which is probably safer. You normally find them attempting a kind of vanilla home counties accent (Bridgette Jones), or a truly awful attempt at a london accent(**** Van ****). I wonder what American accents us Brits are worst at.

One thing I have found in my travels around the UK is that the word for a bread roll varies considerably. I have heard the following among others: Bap, Batch, Roll, Breadcake, Bun, Cob. They are used to mean different shapes, but the definition seems to change from place to place. A little dull I know, but it interested me over the years.

Remote is called "The Power"
Bowl is cashed
SUBs from fu[red][/red]cking Subway
pop

I drink soda.

A bowl is beat.

I change the channel with a remote, or sometimes clicker.

I don't take bong hits, I pull tubes.

I never call it "kraft dinner" it's just macarroni and cheese, regardless of the brand.

I often use the word conversate instead of converse.

I grew up on the English southern Coast, but went to university in the Midlands, where I met my wife who is from Yorkshire (North). Each of these areas have an entirely different regional accent. In fact there are more accents in England than there are counties. So how on earth can you tell me that the purest English accent is found in some mountain range in the USA.

Which English accent is it the purest form of? And as a point of fact to which time period are we talking here? Are you saying that it is the purest accent in relation to that spoken during the colonisation of the American continent? If so wtf has that got to do with spoken English today. I guarantee you that 100 years prior to that English sounded completely different. In fact as far as I understand it the closest dialect to that of English in it's original form (prior to the French fiddling with it after 1066) is that spoken on the Frisian coast. And that isn't even English (it's Frisian as it goes).

It get's my back up when a yank tells me that they speak English better than the English?!! I think they should just officially state that you guys speak American not English, then you can all shut the f*ck up about all this purest form *****

On a less angry note. I would be interested in finding out about these folk songs. I have to admit to enjoying a bit of folk music.

Edit: In fact I would put a bet on these folk songs being completely different to the ones they were singing when they settled in the mountains. What you probably mean is that these folk songs are different to anything sung in England. The fact is a good few of the nursery rhymes that I sang as a kid were derived from nursery rhymes that are older than the USA, and some of the folk music sung today in the UK is derived from songs that we sang in the dark ages.




Edited, Thu May 4 11:38:02 2006 by Aeropig

Oregon: stop light Tennesee: redlight
OR: grocery cart TN: buggy

There are alot more of them, but those are the only 2 that come to mind.

John Rich (texan) could name the home county of most other Texans that he met by their accent. Was fun to bet on when new people came to the studio.

a bowl is

ash
cashed
burnt

reaaally old remotes used to "click" when you pushed one of their 5 buttons power/chn up/chn down/vol up/vol down

Damn right. Why should I be any different to every other red blooded Englishman?

What is all this talk of bowls? Either a bowl has food in it, or it's empty. Sometimes it's just crusty, but that's when you put it in the dishwasher. Some people.

Heh. My boss tells me to take a picture of these papers. It cracks me up. Before I quit and when he tells me to take a picture of these papers, I'm going to have to whip out my phone camera and click!

The skeleton consists of 206 separate bones, ignoring various sesamoid bones and the fact that some bones represent the fusion of multiple bones.

Hum...
A bowl is "empty"
A remote is a remote
Soda is also a pop, is also a coke
I swim in the crick (as opposed to creek)
yaknowhat? is one word
Kleenex has no other name
I eat subs, and make copies
Y'all is proper english.
Wasup is used by EVEYONE
'sup y'all is a proper greeting
-and I have never heard of a "gyro" before. whazzat?

and locals here CANNOT understand a darn thing from anyone from the south or new england. Most of us sprinkle pidgen mexican into our speech.