BF2S Forums Americans with funny accents

Sorry for anyone concerned, but the North Carolina accent is close to incomprehensible. As for London accent...lol it makes me laugh..looks like they own palnds and palnds and palnds..lol(written in sound type al as in calf)

Sung by Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady...

Henry Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter,
Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered.
By law she should be taken out and hung,
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
Eliza Aaoooww! Henry imitating her Aaoooww!
Heaven's! What a noise!
This is what the British population,
Calls an elementary education. Pickering Oh,
Counsel, I think you picked a poor example. Henry Did I?
Hear them down in Soho square,
Dropping "h's" everywhere.
Speaking English anyway they like.
You sir, did you go to school?
Man Wadaya tike me for, a fool?
Henry No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike!
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
This verbal class distinction, by now,
Should be antique. If you spoke as she does, sir,
Instead of the way you do,
Why, you might be selling flowers, too!
Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse,
Hear a Cornishman converse,
I'd rather hear a choir singing flat.
Chickens cackling in a barn Just like this one!
Eliza Garn! Henry I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
It's "Aoooow" and "Garn" that keep her in her place.
Not her wretched clothes and dirty face.
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
This verbal class distinction by now should be antique.
If you spoke as she does, sir, Instead of the way you do,
Why, you might be selling flowers, too.
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him,
The moment he talks he makes some other
Englishman despise him.
One common language I'm afraid we'll never get.
Oh, why can't the English learn to set
A good example to people whose
English is painful to your ears?
The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.
There even are places where English completely
disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their
Greek. In France every Frenchman knows
his language from "A" to "Zed"
The French never care what they do, actually,
as long as they pronounce in properly.
Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.
And Hebrews learn it backwards,
which is absolutely frightening.
But use proper English you're regarded as a freak.
Why can't the English,
Why can't the English learn to speak?

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[bpuk]jack wrote:

We British dont have accents we are the original people who speak English.

Common things about us that arent true :

- We dont sit down for afternoon tea (majority of us anyways...upper cut people do, people in cambridge,eton etc.)
- We dont go out for picnics in the local park-if u did you'd sit in dog shit.
- Crumpets aren't a main part of our diet.
- Not all public school kids are gay.


ALTHOUGH IT IS TRUE THAT WHENEVER THERES A CRISIS OR SOMETHIGN BAD HAPPENS WE DO PUT THE KETTLE ON FOR A NICE CUP OF TEA

- Crumpets aren't a main part of our diet.???

Yes the are especially blonde ones big huge knockers!!!

My personal favorite about the states english(which I actaully call american) is that a demographic over here tries to come up with their own langue ever few years. First we had Jive, then ebonics(which actually to this day is in normal conversation). So soon enough my dear chaps you'll be wondering why the rest of the world is speaking in a weird foreign tounge

Jin that was a joke just to let you know. You might come up with words but I'm pretty sure the U.S. comes up with abbrivations like LOL and LMFAO

dont try and take credit for lol and lmfao!! even tho they probs came form there.......hmm.......anyone know?

but also to put on a welsh accent all you have to do is say "Isn't It" and your there!!

STEREOTYPES ARE EVERYWHERE

Or canadians you just put eh at the end of ever word. It's so weird they don't even know they do it.