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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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Aileen Grist 6 years ago (edited)
So many people thnk that we all speak London. In Yorkshire, Lancashire and maybe Newcastle it's more watta bottle. We drink watta up North Dun't tha know
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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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Wilf 6 years ago
Might it be worth pointing out that the UK is not just composed of England alone? Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are also (for now at least) part of Union... And we don't just have our own accents, we have our own entire LANGUAGES, thanks.
Talia Johnson 6 years ago
Sigh. My American colleague said to me after I did a presentation "It's too bad you don't have a classic British accent". After some quizzing, I worked out that he meant '"too bad you don't sound like Renee Zellweger doing a poor impression of a British accent in Bridget Jones' Diary".
Tiny Dynamine 6 years ago
This is awful. Everyone thinks we all live in one suburb of East London. We have hundreds of accents and dialects. Plus, we don't feel the need to say "be like" in every chuffing sentence.
Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
I'm in nz, my dad's from Lisbon, country Anterrim in ireland: when he hears a Brit speak he seems to know exactly what part of the UK they're from, it's quite interesting. From what I know, you're absolutely right: you guys have an enormous range of accents, almost from borough to borough
Load More Replies... Alan Green 6 years ago
most of these "sound" like Bart Simpson doing a dodgy British/Hackney accent.
Merty Robinson 6 years ago
Please do continue to correct the way we pronounce the language we invented, because clearly it is we, not you, who have the accent.
JK Rowling 6 years ago
Nobody's correcting you? They're just showing how you sound to them.
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Nicky OldfieldDesciple 6 years ago
It's a shame that all the Yanks over there in 'Murica seem to think we all talk like D**k Van Dyke character Bert in Mary Poppins or Audrey Hepburn's character Eliza Dolittle character in My Fair Lady. That would be like the British watching old reruns of the Dukes of Hazzard and thinking all Americans talked with a Redneck Hill billy accent Or watching Jersey Shore and thinking everybody talked like Snooky or Pauly D.
Noemie 6 years ago
Sadly no, this is how SOME Londoners talk, if you look at the country of Britain it includes Scotland and Wales as well as the rest of England where people have thousands of accents...so no this is not what British people sound like, just a very small segment of Londoners, shame you didn't title this correctly because you have just tarred and entire country with one accent!!! Like saying all Americans talk like a quarter of New Yorkers!!
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 6 years ago
This is not close to being spot on. I actually find it pretty offensive and racist. Especially coming from a bunch of people who have most likely never been to England because they've never left their corner of shitsville USA
peter howard 6 years ago
Waste of time, very small percentage of Londoners talk like this, heavily viewed cockney accent.
Claire Phillips 6 years ago
Typical Americans, only know London! They don’t think any other part of England exists!🤣
So_Long_And_Thanks_For_All_The_Fish 6 years ago (edited)
Ffs, y do they talk like the British accent is so wrong. They bloody well invented the language. And sometimes (quite often) "t" is pronounced "ch". There's more depth to the the language than other accents, less hard sounds and much more diverse range of phonetics. Also most of these were Cockney not British, there's also Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Geordie and more. Rant over, goodbye
Marilyn Bojanowski 6 years ago
The way they put an R sound (for once) at the end of some words, like Pepper and George Also I hope you Brits know that us making fun of you is all in good fun. I honestly would love to hear how people think Americans sound!
matthew owen 6 years ago
This ain't British, it's just 1800s South East Londoners. Don't Americans know that Scotland and Wales are also in Britain?
Snowhoepandapro 6 years ago
This is more south England accents. Not 'British' I can tell you this much us Scots certainly dinny talk like that ken!
Rosie Hamilton 6 years ago
Not the South - small part of SE London or Essex.
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Simon Gorrill 6 years ago
Nobody outside Greater London says any of this! Also 37 dialects? More like 3700. There are at least 6 dialects in the County where I live!
Tania Woods 6 years ago
I am genuinely British, not English, Irish, Welsh or Scottish. Born overseas to service personnel. I have lived all over the UK and picked up some amazing accents. And I don't use the glottal stop. Wow!
Kelsey Kavac 6 years ago
So, it considered acceptable to take the mick out of the poor working class in London and SE England is it? Because that is what all of this is, taking the mick out of the working class poor.
Vanta Black 6 years ago
No it's not. This is a bunch of, what I'm assuming is, mostly American people who don't know that there's more to British English than what they've heard from Michael Caine, and who will have forgotten that other actors like Gary Oldman and Alan Rickman are/were also Brits, because they rarely performed in their natural accents or dialects. And they also appear to have forgotten that Britain is more than just England, because none of these tweets were written to sound like Sean Connery, and I don't think they would know what a Welsh person sounds like, or even if Wales is a real country.
Load More Replies... Bill 6 years ago
How do you get away with using the C word ? In America that will take things nuclear instantly, not just another swear word
cc 6 years ago (edited)
Probably cos we started using that word first and men can be called c**ts too. We don't use it in a sexist context.
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Станислав Бяхов 4 years ago
in fact, a British accent or just speech has been developed over the years, because you need to live in the place where you use it for the purity of speech, but if this is not possible, then there is a course from https://englishpapa.com/ where you will be offered a choice of several language programs where you can decide in which direction to move on
Natasha Birukova 4 years ago
very funny tweets))) I studied English at the EnglishPapa school https://englishpapa.com/, I had a teacher, very modern, who also always shared funny tweets))
Irina Graf 6 years ago
Omg, you british guys are sooo coool, plz teach me how to speak british 😭
Alfred Senyo 6 years ago
I don't think they realise their american accents are the weird ones because the english accent is the original english accent, so instead of saying british people be like, they should say american people be like.
Yeah, you heard 6 years ago (edited)
I am disappointed to see that Bored Panda / Jonas Grinevičius (writer of this article) have called these "ridiculously spot on". They are not ridiculously spot on. They depict a British caricature from southeast London. Newsflash: Most Brits do not speak with a London accent!
Jonahs Mrs 6 years ago
In my (British) brain every one of these were D**k Van Dyke in Mary Poppins 😁🤔😁x
weatherwitch 6 years ago
Most of these are utterly shite 😂😂😂😂 British dialect is multiple accents that varies from town to town, village to village, hill and Dale, town and city. It's a whole load more than D**k Van Dykes hilarious fake accent 😂😂😂
Jo Choto 6 years ago
Nothing was more aggravating to me than Americans trying to do a British accent which always sounded like D**k Van Dyke in Mary Poppins and thinking they were even close to any of the dozens of U.K. accents. Drove me. Up. The. Wall. I couldn’t make it through more than a couple of those.
Blair Coron 6 years ago (edited)
By British they mean England. By England they mean London. By London they mean the East end. What about Scahtland? Pronounced, Scawtland :)
Brent Hollett 6 years ago
"I'm Bri-ish" "You forgot the T". "Aww, oi'd fancy a cuppa roi now."
Margaret Jenkins 6 years ago
Some of these were quite funny. I’m originally from Hampshire but sound like Hermione Granger
The End Is Nyreezy 6 years ago
Most of of these are spot on for the london area! I would know. I watched Eastenders "fore ye-ahs " I also lived in "Man-chestuh" and can attest to the accuracy of these posts.
Isabel Care 6 years ago
My mum had 2 books on accents..."Let Stalk Strine" and "Fraffly" For those who want to sound Australian and those who want to sound posh
David Simpson 6 years ago
These are all English accents, you many Americans think British means English. It's like calling out Americans for things people say in California.
akajulz 6 years ago
In the US Californians are not considered to have accents. New York would be a better example because they have multiple accents throughout the Burroughs. There are a lot of Southern accents as well.
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lailyfnoor 6 years ago
As non-native English speaker, my brain works twice harder to understand all of this
Dilly Millandry 6 years ago
I'm not sure you're right - I've struggled a LOT and yet I'm a native English speaker. Some of these sound like the person assumes we all sound like D**k Van Dyke who is famous for doing the worst British accent ever.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 6 years ago
I love how the British sound. I'd never hear "Bobby dazzler" until the guy in oak island said it.
Carrie de Luka 6 years ago
To be honest I've only ever heard Bobby Dazzler be said by David Dickinson and we all wince when he does.
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Barbara Baldwin 6 years ago
I read somewhere that there is no "th" sound in the Irish vocabulary. Is that why the Thames is pronounced so funny?
Katy Thorn 6 years ago (edited)
I love how people got all huffy about this.. why wasn't my specific accent mentioned by the foreigner, it's an outrage!!! I feel marginalised and overlooked by people who I would normally mock!
Roisin Reid 6 years ago (edited)
I was thinking this was ridiculous, then i said them out loud, but probably with a rough ar-fed-sha (hertfordshire) accent like me than all of Britian
Vanta Black 6 years ago
Hertfordshire, eh? I'm sorry to hear you're suffering.
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Chris DiFonso 6 years ago
Accent aside, I don't understand the use of "innit." In America, we would say something such as "doesn't it?" or "don't they?" and in Britain they say "innit" instead.
Vanta Black 6 years ago
"Innit" is a bastardisation of "isn't it?", which somehow became a word certain people (chavs) would tack onto the end of a sentence. It became a bigger thing with the rise of Sacha Baron Cohen's character Ali G, a parody of chav culture, but it pretty much died out when he stopped performing as Ali.
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Mike Skeats 6 years ago
Disgustingly racist. Do you Yanks think you sound any better: if so, think again.
Jon S. 6 years ago
As an Englishman, this doesn't even make my racism needle quiver. What is wrong with pointing out idiosyncrasies in speech this way? The only racist element was some of the caricature images below the quotes.
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Dilly Millandry 6 years ago
Not fond of the empire c**p that we pulled but we are, generally speaking, way less racist than the US.
Load More Replies... 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.
Load More Replies... Wilf 6 years ago
Might it be worth pointing out that the UK is not just composed of England alone? Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are also (for now at least) part of Union... And we don't just have our own accents, we have our own entire LANGUAGES, thanks.
Talia Johnson 6 years ago
Sigh. My American colleague said to me after I did a presentation "It's too bad you don't have a classic British accent". After some quizzing, I worked out that he meant '"too bad you don't sound like Renee Zellweger doing a poor impression of a British accent in Bridget Jones' Diary".
Tiny Dynamine 6 years ago
This is awful. Everyone thinks we all live in one suburb of East London. We have hundreds of accents and dialects. Plus, we don't feel the need to say "be like" in every chuffing sentence.
Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
I'm in nz, my dad's from Lisbon, country Anterrim in ireland: when he hears a Brit speak he seems to know exactly what part of the UK they're from, it's quite interesting. From what I know, you're absolutely right: you guys have an enormous range of accents, almost from borough to borough
Load More Replies... Alan Green 6 years ago
most of these "sound" like Bart Simpson doing a dodgy British/Hackney accent.
Merty Robinson 6 years ago
Please do continue to correct the way we pronounce the language we invented, because clearly it is we, not you, who have the accent.
JK Rowling 6 years ago
Nobody's correcting you? They're just showing how you sound to them.
Load More Replies... Nicky OldfieldDesciple 6 years ago
It's a shame that all the Yanks over there in 'Murica seem to think we all talk like D**k Van Dyke character Bert in Mary Poppins or Audrey Hepburn's character Eliza Dolittle character in My Fair Lady. That would be like the British watching old reruns of the Dukes of Hazzard and thinking all Americans talked with a Redneck Hill billy accent Or watching Jersey Shore and thinking everybody talked like Snooky or Pauly D.
Noemie 6 years ago
Sadly no, this is how SOME Londoners talk, if you look at the country of Britain it includes Scotland and Wales as well as the rest of England where people have thousands of accents...so no this is not what British people sound like, just a very small segment of Londoners, shame you didn't title this correctly because you have just tarred and entire country with one accent!!! Like saying all Americans talk like a quarter of New Yorkers!!
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 6 years ago
This is not close to being spot on. I actually find it pretty offensive and racist. Especially coming from a bunch of people who have most likely never been to England because they've never left their corner of shitsville USA
peter howard 6 years ago
Waste of time, very small percentage of Londoners talk like this, heavily viewed cockney accent.
Claire Phillips 6 years ago
Typical Americans, only know London! They don’t think any other part of England exists!🤣
So_Long_And_Thanks_For_All_The_Fish 6 years ago (edited)
Ffs, y do they talk like the British accent is so wrong. They bloody well invented the language. And sometimes (quite often) "t" is pronounced "ch". There's more depth to the the language than other accents, less hard sounds and much more diverse range of phonetics. Also most of these were Cockney not British, there's also Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Geordie and more. Rant over, goodbye
Marilyn Bojanowski 6 years ago
The way they put an R sound (for once) at the end of some words, like Pepper and George Also I hope you Brits know that us making fun of you is all in good fun. I honestly would love to hear how people think Americans sound!
matthew owen 6 years ago
This ain't British, it's just 1800s South East Londoners. Don't Americans know that Scotland and Wales are also in Britain?
Snowhoepandapro 6 years ago
This is more south England accents. Not 'British' I can tell you this much us Scots certainly dinny talk like that ken!
Rosie Hamilton 6 years ago
Not the South - small part of SE London or Essex.
Load More Replies... Simon Gorrill 6 years ago
Nobody outside Greater London says any of this! Also 37 dialects? More like 3700. There are at least 6 dialects in the County where I live!
Tania Woods 6 years ago
I am genuinely British, not English, Irish, Welsh or Scottish. Born overseas to service personnel. I have lived all over the UK and picked up some amazing accents. And I don't use the glottal stop. Wow!
Kelsey Kavac 6 years ago
So, it considered acceptable to take the mick out of the poor working class in London and SE England is it? Because that is what all of this is, taking the mick out of the working class poor.
Vanta Black 6 years ago
No it's not. This is a bunch of, what I'm assuming is, mostly American people who don't know that there's more to British English than what they've heard from Michael Caine, and who will have forgotten that other actors like Gary Oldman and Alan Rickman are/were also Brits, because they rarely performed in their natural accents or dialects. And they also appear to have forgotten that Britain is more than just England, because none of these tweets were written to sound like Sean Connery, and I don't think they would know what a Welsh person sounds like, or even if Wales is a real country.
Load More Replies... Bill 6 years ago
How do you get away with using the C word ? In America that will take things nuclear instantly, not just another swear word
cc 6 years ago (edited)
Probably cos we started using that word first and men can be called c**ts too. We don't use it in a sexist context.
Load More Replies... Станислав Бяхов 4 years ago
in fact, a British accent or just speech has been developed over the years, because you need to live in the place where you use it for the purity of speech, but if this is not possible, then there is a course from https://englishpapa.com/ where you will be offered a choice of several language programs where you can decide in which direction to move on
Natasha Birukova 4 years ago
very funny tweets))) I studied English at the EnglishPapa school https://englishpapa.com/, I had a teacher, very modern, who also always shared funny tweets))
Irina Graf 6 years ago
Omg, you british guys are sooo coool, plz teach me how to speak british 😭
Alfred Senyo 6 years ago
I don't think they realise their american accents are the weird ones because the english accent is the original english accent, so instead of saying british people be like, they should say american people be like.
Yeah, you heard 6 years ago (edited)
I am disappointed to see that Bored Panda / Jonas Grinevičius (writer of this article) have called these "ridiculously spot on". They are not ridiculously spot on. They depict a British caricature from southeast London. Newsflash: Most Brits do not speak with a London accent!
Jonahs Mrs 6 years ago
In my (British) brain every one of these were D**k Van Dyke in Mary Poppins 😁🤔😁x
weatherwitch 6 years ago
Most of these are utterly shite 😂😂😂😂 British dialect is multiple accents that varies from town to town, village to village, hill and Dale, town and city. It's a whole load more than D**k Van Dykes hilarious fake accent 😂😂😂
Jo Choto 6 years ago
Nothing was more aggravating to me than Americans trying to do a British accent which always sounded like D**k Van Dyke in Mary Poppins and thinking they were even close to any of the dozens of U.K. accents. Drove me. Up. The. Wall. I couldn’t make it through more than a couple of those.
Blair Coron 6 years ago (edited)
By British they mean England. By England they mean London. By London they mean the East end. What about Scahtland? Pronounced, Scawtland :)
Brent Hollett 6 years ago
"I'm Bri-ish" "You forgot the T". "Aww, oi'd fancy a cuppa roi now."
Margaret Jenkins 6 years ago
Some of these were quite funny. I’m originally from Hampshire but sound like Hermione Granger
The End Is Nyreezy 6 years ago
Most of of these are spot on for the london area! I would know. I watched Eastenders "fore ye-ahs " I also lived in "Man-chestuh" and can attest to the accuracy of these posts.
Isabel Care 6 years ago
My mum had 2 books on accents..."Let Stalk Strine" and "Fraffly" For those who want to sound Australian and those who want to sound posh
David Simpson 6 years ago
These are all English accents, you many Americans think British means English. It's like calling out Americans for things people say in California.
akajulz 6 years ago
In the US Californians are not considered to have accents. New York would be a better example because they have multiple accents throughout the Burroughs. There are a lot of Southern accents as well.
Load More Replies... lailyfnoor 6 years ago
As non-native English speaker, my brain works twice harder to understand all of this
Dilly Millandry 6 years ago
I'm not sure you're right - I've struggled a LOT and yet I'm a native English speaker. Some of these sound like the person assumes we all sound like D**k Van Dyke who is famous for doing the worst British accent ever.
Load More Replies... Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 6 years ago
I love how the British sound. I'd never hear "Bobby dazzler" until the guy in oak island said it.
Carrie de Luka 6 years ago
To be honest I've only ever heard Bobby Dazzler be said by David Dickinson and we all wince when he does.
Load More Replies... Barbara Baldwin 6 years ago
I read somewhere that there is no "th" sound in the Irish vocabulary. Is that why the Thames is pronounced so funny?
Katy Thorn 6 years ago (edited)
I love how people got all huffy about this.. why wasn't my specific accent mentioned by the foreigner, it's an outrage!!! I feel marginalised and overlooked by people who I would normally mock!
Roisin Reid 6 years ago (edited)
I was thinking this was ridiculous, then i said them out loud, but probably with a rough ar-fed-sha (hertfordshire) accent like me than all of Britian
Vanta Black 6 years ago
Hertfordshire, eh? I'm sorry to hear you're suffering.
Load More Replies... Chris DiFonso 6 years ago
Accent aside, I don't understand the use of "innit." In America, we would say something such as "doesn't it?" or "don't they?" and in Britain they say "innit" instead.
Vanta Black 6 years ago
"Innit" is a bastardisation of "isn't it?", which somehow became a word certain people (chavs) would tack onto the end of a sentence. It became a bigger thing with the rise of Sacha Baron Cohen's character Ali G, a parody of chav culture, but it pretty much died out when he stopped performing as Ali.
Load More Replies... Mike Skeats 6 years ago
Disgustingly racist. Do you Yanks think you sound any better: if so, think again.
Jon S. 6 years ago
As an Englishman, this doesn't even make my racism needle quiver. What is wrong with pointing out idiosyncrasies in speech this way? The only racist element was some of the caricature images below the quotes.
Load More Replies... Dilly Millandry 6 years ago
Not fond of the empire c**p that we pulled but we are, generally speaking, way less racist than the US.
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