Differences: US vs UK

[odd_socks]

is it true that americans love british accents?

 

[LucyintheSky]

We tend to put our xmas decs up at least 12 days before xmas (most films I see, they put them up xmas eve?)

We have midwives and not doctors to deliver babies- as this makes the proceedure less medical as possible as it is seen as a natural progression here, and the midwives are not invasive and only touch when they have too.

Most people in the US put up decorations much earlier than Christmas Eve. Thanksgiving is a popular time for people to put up decorations & some even put them up sooner than that! I personally, wait until December 1st to put my decorations up.

We have midwives here too. It's been less popular in former years, but it's making a come back and many people are switching back to midwives instead of doctors. At least 75% of the women I know have had midwives.

 

[LucyintheSky]

is it true that americans love british accents?

Yes! And Australian accents, and Scottish accents, and really...all accents! haha.

 

[odd_socks]

is it true that americans love british accents?

Yes! And Australian accents, and Scottish accents, and really...all accents! haha.

i wondered if it was true, i have family in Canada and they always say we are posh

 

[cleckner04]

Yeah I love the accents too. Anytime UK girls on here post videos I just love listening to them talk.


I just heard on the cartoon 'kipper' that he was going to 'hire' a costume. Does that mean rent? Here, we'd say we are going to rent a costume. Actually, don't you ladies call them fancy dress? Costumes are swimsuits in the UK aren't they?

^^That was probably really confusing.

 

[odd_socks]

yeah hire and rent is the same thing here and it is fancy dress here yes costumes do tend to be swimming costumes

 

[CeeDee]

is it true that americans love british accents?

Yes, or at least I do.

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

yeah hire and rent is the same thing here and it is fancy dress here yes costumes do tend to be swimming costumes

I say fancy dress or costume lol x

 

[robinator]

is it true that americans love british accents?

Yes! And Australian accents, and Scottish accents, and really...all accents! haha.

And Irish ones! Aussie accents make me swoon...

 

[MizzDeeDee]

is it true that americans love british accents?

Meh... kinda.. I think it is intriguing because it's different. I have heard the same from guys from the UK... depending on our accent that is. We have so many.

 

[CRWx]

We have lots of accents too

 

[morri]

My accents chart

Kiwi
South africa
Scottish
Geordie
the one the people from OBEM speak
Cockney
Yorkshire
Australian (depending on how severe it is )
Irish
New England
Canadian
mid west
southern

 

[MizzDeeDee]

We have lots of accents too

I've noticed. What is the accent that your royalty speak? It's not the Queen's English.. right? That's more the way they articulate and less about the accent???

Cockney is harder for me to understand.. I would imagine it would be the equivilent of you guys hearing someone speak cajun- I can't understand that sometimes myself.

 

[Tegans Mama]

We have lots of accents too

I've noticed. What is the accent that your royalty speak? It's not the Queen's English.. right? That's more the way they articulate and less about the accent???

Cockney is harder for me to understand.. I would imagine it would be the equivilent of you guys hearing someone speak cajun- I can't understand that sometimes myself.

The Queens English is about articulation and the words that are used, not about the way they are spoken.

I'm not sure what you'd call the Royal's accent, I am from the midlands (uk, obviously.. ) and I would call them "posh". I think they just have a "London" accent, certainly not cockney though. Cockney is from another part of London and don't worry no one understands it unless you speak it yourself

I read something somewhere that said we had the most accents in proportion to how little land we have in the whole world. We really are a tiny little island, but there is a different accent for every county, and more inbetween that in some places! My partner and I grew up less than ten miles away from each other but speak totally differently - OH is from Nottinghamshire and I lived on the Derbyshire/Yorkshire border. She used to say I talk like a farmer. What a bitch

 

[morri]

Well even within cities there are different accents The queen is supposed to speak RP (received Pronounciation)English, and style and word selection('sociolect') are just as part of accents as are the phonetics.

 

[CRWx]

https://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html

gives a bit of an idea, we DO NOT sound the same

 

[odd_socks]

We have lots of accents too

we do indeed, i wish mine were more posh even though i get told i am

 

[hopeandpray]

Ireland has soooo many different accents for a small country. When people say I love Irish accents I always want to ask them which one because to me they are completely different. A Cavan/Monaghan accent is nothing like a Cork accent or a Dublin accent. And then even North and South Dublin are totally different
And for the record none of us sound like we do in american movies/tv If anyone watches criminal minds that Irish guy who is in it at the moment has the worst accent I've ever heard. It's meant to be a serious storyline but the second he opens his mouth I start pissing myself

 

[morri]

I only know the hosts of our Irish pubs

 

[CRWx]

We have lots of accents too

we do indeed, i wish mine were more posh even though i get told i am

we only live what, 20 minutes away from each other? and i bet we sound completely different!