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These 30 Tweets Are Teaching People To Speak In A British Accent And It’s Ridiculously Spot On
When you ask people what they think about British accents, most of them either love ‘em or find them amusing. While some of us are busy swooning over people speaking like Hugh Grant, some Twitter users have pointed out that far from every Brit speaks like they’re Victorian gentlemen and ladies.
We’ve collected some of the most hilarious times that Twitter users have poked fun at people who speak British English (or Bri-ish as one Twitter user who created a viral thread with over 663k likes joked). Upvote the best tweets and let us know in the comments what you think of the way British people speak. Personally, I absolutely adore the variety of accents in the UK, but to each their own.
While we might call it the Queen’s English, very few people apart from the British royals and nobility employ the British English pronunciation the way that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II does. In fact, there are more than 37 dialects in the British Isles! Scroll down for Bored Panda's interview with Dr. David Britain, Professor of Modern English Linguistics at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
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Wottermehlon Doge 6 years ago
speaking of British people and youtube. anytime there is an informational video and a British person is talking it automatically means everything is true
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Rabbit Carrot 6 years ago
What word is that supposed to be? I’ve tried saying it a million different ways. 🤷♀️
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Vanta Black 6 years ago (edited)
Let me correct this one. "British people on holiday are like 'I'm sorry, how much? We're not used to taxes being added on at the checkout. The price displayed is the price we pay, and we don't subsidise minimum wage workers with tips, because we're not neanderthals.'"
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Vanta Black 6 years ago
So how many consonants do non-Brits think we actually drop? The correct answer is "we never drop them", because we've all seen Countdown.
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Rabbit Carrot 6 years ago
We don’t really have Mountain Dew in the U.K. (lack of the right kind of hill billy I guess).
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Rabbit Carrot 6 years ago
That’s because it is an aitch (pronounced aitch or haitch depending on your propensity or not for H adding).
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Alan Green 6 years ago
I say "Aych" no H at the start. Only when on the phone do I say "hayche" to make it sound less like "A" or "8" to help avoid any confusion especially when on a dodgy line which happens a lot at work.
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Lazy Farmer 6 years ago
I have noticed that many americans have hard time understanding the concept of 'innit' 😂
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Aileen Grist 6 years ago
We don't get in wardrobes very often! We're happy to use colloquialisms at times.
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Liam Walsh 6 years ago
Only ever heard one person say it like that - he also said Fagitas instead of fajitas.
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Liam Walsh 6 years ago
Ah no! That is hilarious - we definitely put the Rs in mirror. That's another country's weird way of saying it.
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Dilly Millandry 6 years ago
Um? We heard the movie and listened to how it's pronounced - there's no british spin on how it is said.
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Liam Walsh 6 years ago
No. Very, very few people in the UK would ever say r******d and no-one has ever pronounced it abschewlutely - not even one of the stronger accents. Nathan you're missing by a mile here fella.
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Rabbit Carrot 6 years ago
No. It’s ‘not everyone’s cup of tea’. We are not a nation of pee drinkers. P**s takers, sure, but not pee drinkers.
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CultOfBambi 6 years ago
Bit disappointed that these are all cockney-sounding. But I guess Americans & others hearing scousers, geordies, brummies - or anyone from Wales or NI speak mightn't have realised that they were speaking English!
Carol Emory 6 years ago
I was going to say the same thing. Britain, like America, has their dialects and accents. Not everyone in Britain talks like this.
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CultOfBambi 6 years ago
Bit disappointed that these are all cockney-sounding. But I guess Americans & others hearing scousers, geordies, brummies - or anyone from Wales or NI speak mightn't have realised that they were speaking English!
Carol Emory 6 years ago
I was going to say the same thing. Britain, like America, has their dialects and accents. Not everyone in Britain talks like this.
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