Tuesday, 31 January 2012

What's that accent?

I’m just back from New York and people always ask me ‘what’s it like for an Irishman living in London?’ For some bizarre reason most Americans think the English are sophisticated people with cultured accents! This fellow bloggers is a London accent:



Now in this next clip we have both posh English as most foreigners think it is spoken along with a broad Yorkshire accent. Our editor is a fascinating mixture of the two depending on the mood she’s in:



I leave you with the thought that Newt Gingrich feels Mitt Romney would be a bad candidate because…wait for it… he speaks French.

4 comments:

Jenny said...

Interesting...thanks Dan.

Oh can you send that first guy around to speak with my printer? I'm tired of having to turn it upside down to get it to print double-sided.

Linda said...

Now that's how English should be spoken. LOL

Saffron said...

Isn't he from Lock, Stock and two smoking Barrrels?

Nicky said...

The bad thing about watching movies made in England or talking to someone from there, is sometimes they require subtitles lol

Benny Hill was great in that he was able to convey what he thought without words most of the time. : )

Great post Dan