[Devongone]

I'm guessing Blue is on an exotic holiday.

Otherwise he'd have to be seriously ill not to have commented on our last couple of draws.

[spireitematt]

I'm guessing Blue is on an exotic holiday.

Otherwise he'd have to be seriously ill not to have commented on our last couple of draws.

He might have the won lottery.

We need to turn these draws into wins.

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Would love to put an American in a room with a Welshman, Geordie, Scot, Cockney, Brummie, East Anglian and Somebody from Somerset/Devon and strike up a conversation about Wee Donald Trumpy. If the American thought he spoke English before he started can you imagine the result when he came out.
Yorkshire is nowhere near as strong an accent as any of the above but how anybody could confuse it with the Aussie accent surprises me.

By the way, whats happened to Blue? Has somebody upset him?

Now I would love to be a fly on the wall to see that. Majority of Americans think we are live in London and speak Cockney or posh. Can you imagine a Geordie talking to an American?

[hibeejim21]

Londoners actually have the nerve to say we dont speak English FFS

No idea about what a Derbyshire accent is... Any famous examples?

[spireitematt]

Londoners actually have the nerve to say we dont speak English FFS

No idea about what a Derbyshire accent is... Any famous examples?

Depends what type of Derbyshire you are from as there is different types of Derbyshire accents. Dennis Skinner would be an example. John Hurt another example.

[St Charles Owl]

To be fair to Yanks, a Welsh accent or a Scottish accent is not an English accent!! They rarely get to really speak to anyone with a very regional accent such as a scouse or goerdie one and when Brits come over here their accent tends to morph into more of a plain English accent just so they can be understood in the first place!! But its the same the opposite way around, I never realized until I lived here that the US has many regional accents as well, not as many as the UK and certainly not any as close geographically as we find. But it took me a while to be able to pick out someone from New Jersey over New York City or either of those over a Boston accent. Also the Chicago accent where I lived for 12 years in fairly unique and very different from the California accent I now live amongst, but then I lived in San Francisco for 2 years before moving to LA, and that accent is different again. The difference is their accents are not as varied as some in Britain, to go from a Cornish accent to a Geordie one, and every other one in between just does not happen here,, their accent differences are not as great as Britain sees.

[Devongone]

When the waitress served us in Macon Georgia she asked if we wanted sauce (I think). She rattled off a list of sauces available ranch branch? cranch? blanche? which was as long as it was totally incomprehensible. When she stopped and looked at me enquiringly I made a noise that approximated to one of the sounds I imagined she'd uttered and she went off happily to return with something that accidentally quite suited our chosen dish.

To my ear people across the States can sound very different, but when you take the giant size of the US into account the vast differences here between lowland Scotland, Wales, Newcastle, Yorkshire, Rossendale, Merseyside, Norfolk, Devon, Cockney, Manc and Brum and BBC etc are astonishing. We even have different words, or sometimes the same words with different meanings ....... I'd steer well clear of us.

[Charlie Farley]

Some years ago I had to collect a French lady doctor from Heathrow and take her to a conference . Her English was excellent and a result of a crash course to make her job easier . She told me her first experience of a speaking english conversation was when she landed at Newcastle and spoke to a geordie taxi driver . She had no idea what the driver was saying but somehow managed to find her hotel .

[Dancingwilldoit]

When "Yekanniwhakram" translates to something like "You cant beat Birds Eye" (Stanlet Baxter TV ad in the 70's I think) and "Whyeyeman" translates to "Yes"
God knows how many more you can think of but it must be a tad confusing for Johnie Foreigner.

[SaltergateBorn]

I think it`s Stanley Unwin you`re thinking of, Dancing. He made a career out of talking gibberish - most of us are just amateurs - and always finished his sketches with "Goodlybyeloads" for goodbye and some other nonsense, as I recall. God, that`s going back a bit.

Apparently, all these accents are the leftovers from regional dialects that were, until relatively recently, mutually unintelligible. So, say, a peasant from Kent and one from Yorkshire - in the unlikely event of their meeting - wouldn`t have been able to understand a word each other said and it was only the coming of the railways that allowed most people to travel any distance that standardised the language. Amazing, isn`t it. Different cities in the UK even had their own time-zones before the railways arrived. And that`s only a couple of hundred years ago.

[Dancingwilldoit]

SGB it was definitely Stanley Baxter in a TV ad - just looked it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T6BzPudRLs
Stanlet Unwin spoke Unwinese, even more bloody confusing but understood him on Small Faces - Ogdens Nut Gone Flake. Now those were the days.