Wall of Mouths

What you mean use your imagination that IS what your voice is like;)

and thank god i don’t have to find mine as i do know how atrocious it can be… maybe i could send them it and have a catagory of my very own:)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/group/lincolnshire-sleaford.shtml

I’m sure this lot sound nothing like me, mrs H you might be able to help me on that , but they live about 20 miles from where I grew up, and in the town where my mum lives now (god, you’re going to dig her up aren’t you?)

caffeinebomb wrote:

… in the town where my mum lives now (god, you’re going to dig her up aren’t you?)

You buried your mother alive??!!! :eek:

@ Interzone - I always laugh when I hear a French accent - it makes me think of Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther films!! :D

I’m sorry! :D Not all of your words sound American though -just the ones you say in English!

Seriously, you sound Belgian really - which is lovely - but you speak as though you have been taught English by an American, if that makes any sense? :p

*waits for Sam to show up and correct everything I just said*

I’ll probably just fall about laughing! :D

so what’s your phonenumber dennis, I would like to talk to you about the…erm… job, yes, the job thingy

Well, I can’t actually open these files with the programmes i have, so I have to guess what they sound like, but it would be either of these two.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/group/wm-dudley.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/group/wm-wolverhampton.shtml

I don’t use a lot of the dialect, in terms of vocabulary - they talk about “The cut” meaning “Canal” for example, and “on the box” meaning “signed off work sick” , and that just isn’t the kind of thing I would say, but I have the accent, no doubt. The only one I would use is “bostin’” (meaning “good” or “great”) or “bost”(meaning “broken”)

Our accent means we tend to say things like

“cor” = “Can’t”
“dow” = “don’t”
“ay” = “ain’t”/”isn’t”
“day” = “didn’t”
“yo” = “you”
here’s an example of a Black Country joke:

-“Doris Day”

-“I never said she DID!”

There’s also a lot of bad grammar such as “Am yo going to the pub?” Instead of “ARE you going to the pub” but again you won’t find me doing that much. My parents are Brummies, which is an altogether different accent and dialect, so I could never get away with such slovenly talking! :D

So she’d just introduce herself as ‘Mrs’.

lol :D

:p

Come on then Igor - find us your accent!

Actually you’ll get sacked - I’ll do it for you. :)

@ Igor - Bloody hell that was a task! This is the nearest I could find to what you actually sound like. There is no Scarborough, and some of the other villages were represented by loads of poncy southerners who’d obviously just got themselves a place in the country!! :mad:

Anyway - this isn’t too far off the mark …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/group/york-helmsley.shtml

Dennis wrote:

If you heard me say “Dave” you probably would think I had said “Dive” or at best “Doive”

I am Doive from Dudlay :(

So you are the British Gas tortoise then … :(

marja wrote:

you told me that I have an american accent. I’m still recovering from the trauma af being assossiated with that :(

I think the first english lessons are most important for the accents… I think most Belgians learn their english from watching television… so if you don’t want your kids to speak english with an american accent… let them watch english films and tv series only :)
My English teacher tried very hard to teach me to stop using the bad words I learned from Andy, without success though :p

I wonder if there are many countries in the world where, like England, you could take one person from one area and another from another and they would be barely able to understand wach other at all, even though they are speaking the same language…? I dunno…

@dennis: try belgium. Not only do we have 3 official languages (dutch, french and german), but in the east of flanders people tend to speak very slow and with a lot of german sounding words, and in the west people just don’t pronounce letters, or say G instead of H. It’s practically impossible for them to be understood by people not from the region.

An example: Where I live now, the word “kaas” (which measn cheese) is pronounced in three different ways, in a region of merely 3 km. One says “kies”, an other one says “kijs”, and yet an other says “kees”.

Dennis wrote:

I wonder if there are many countries in the world where, like England, you could take one person from one area and another from another and they would be barely able to understand wach other at all, even though they are speaking the same language…? I dunno…

It’s the same in Scotland. I’m from Glasgow, so this http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/group/scotland-glasgow.shtml
is probably the closest to my accent, but last week i was on the fone to someone in Arbroath and i could barely understand him.

I speak fairly quickly (as most Glaswegians do), but i do tend to slow down a little if i’m speaking to an English person. Unless i’m drunk. :D