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Re: I WANT A SCOTTISH ACCENT

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:47:20 GMT

Scottish accents are nice, but Glasgow accents are horrific!!! I personaly blame Glasgow for other countries mocking the Scottish accent. All of Scotlands popular media has come from Glasgow so people in other countries come to recognise the Glasgow accent as being the Scottish accent, which of course it is not. Glasgow accents make me want to kill myself, especially the nasal ones that neds speak with and the deep rough Glasgow accent of some over weight mother shouting at the kids.

I was born in the Highlands near Inverness and i can tell you that Glaswegians can have a very nasty sarcasm towards other people they hear are not from Glasgow. I hate Glasgow, the city its self is a dump, a horrible dark place with reminders of industrial decline and poverty just about everywhere you look. Only in Glasgow do people still call themselves "Socialists" and treat anyone who has made a good living for themselves like ***. Glasgow is the home of sectarianism hardly seen else where in Scotland so it annoys me when the politicians call it Scotlands shame, when in fact it is Glasgows shame. Glasgow is beyond repair, i would just demolish the city entirely and start again. Glasgow has nothing going for it, it is the poorest city in western Europe, it rains every bloody day and the people are so glum. Did you know Edinburgh has the same annual rain fall as Rome??? Amazing isnt it, the difference between the west and east coast. The west is miserable, dark, wet and windy, the east is brighter, dryer and richer.

Glasgow accents make me vomit just like Birmingham accents and Cockney hard man accents. They Cockneys think they sound hard, but they sound laughable and people do laugh. If some Cockney thug in a leather jacket came up and threatened you, you would just laugh, put on a deep Scottish or Irish accent then watch him back off.

Re: Learn various accents/dialects

Bldudas — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:21:19 GMT

Bldudas: thanks so much. I'll def. check them out. I've been staying up all night browsing the web for sites that can help me.

You cannot recognise US accents? Where are the people from you hear? You should be able to recognise New York and Boston. Maybe not Philadelphia.
Well, I might recognize that the accent is a US one, but not anything more specific than that. The american accent is the easiest to recognize. I'm having a hard time telling the difference between for example Australian Eng and Brit Eng. I can't even tell the difference. And Scottish, I don't even understand what they're saying. I watched "Green Street Hooligans" (lovely lovely film) but I didn't understand half of what they were saying, same goes with "This is England". No idea what accent they had in that film, but it must have been a scottish one (?) cause I did not understand much.

I can guarantee you that I do not recognize New York/Boston/Philly accents. " src="/emoticons/emotion-1.gif"> I only know of the "regular" american accent and the southern one. That are all american accents that exists for me, unfortunately. " src="/emoticons/emotion-4.gif">

I know they roll r's, which is one reason why I cannot understand them.
I just LOVE the scottish accent, but I can't understand a dime. What does "rolling" something means? Rolling r's?

You are from Philly? Do you know of West Chester? How does a Philadelphian accent sound like?

Thank you for the reply!

Too bad you cannot tell the difference. The southern accent sounds horrible to me.

A rolled r is when the tongue vibrates against the front of the pallet. Hard to do. For me anyway.

West Chester is near where I live. I live in the Philly suburbs. I cannot completely describe the Philly accent, here is a website http://www.princeton.edu/~browning/news/phillyspeak.html. Right now I can tell you a few things.

Here are some things I know:

are and our are pronounced the same (appearantly they are pronounced differently)

tore and tour are pronounced the same (again pronounced differently)

poor, pore and pour are pronounced the same (pronounced differently? again)

glottal stop is used after vowels, l, n ,and r at the end of a syllable

Mary and merry are pronounced the same

Very few outsiders can recognize it!

Re: Learn various accents/dialects

Saska — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:44:28 GMT

You should find this wiki article on British English accents and dialects useful
Yep, already finished that one yesterday.

I don't know how many different English accents there are. Some areas have their own accent and even some cities/towns have their own accent.
I thought you only had a few. Like I said I suck at accents. I don't even know what accents we have here where I live! So what are the major accents? And how can I distinguish them from eachother?

Scottish (two t's) - again there isn't a single Scottish accent.
Well you learn something new every day. I honestly though that in Scotland, there was one accent and it was Scottish. Proved me wrong, which I noticed when browsing this site for 3 hours during my all nighters, http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/text-only/scotland . There are indeed several scottish accents.

I haven't noticed my Scottish friends doing this?
Like I said I know basicly nothing about accents but this,I am positive about. I've heard it a few times before. I don't know from where in Scotland the people were from but I'm positive they had those traits when speaking.

To be honest, what you are saying here sounds more like an Irish accent to me than Scottish?
I have no idea how Irish sounds. :O Anywhere I can listen to it?

Thank you nona the brit for your reply.

Bldudas: thanks so much. I'll def. check them out. I've been staying up all night browsing the web for sites that can help me.

I can guarantee you that I do not recognize New York/Boston/Philly accents. I only know of the "regular" american accent and the southern one. That are all american accents that exists for me, unfortunately.

I know they roll r's, which is one reason why I cannot understand them.
I just LOVE the scottish accent, but I can't understand a dime. What does "rolling" something means? Rolling r's?

You are from Philly? Do you know of West Chester? How does a Philadelphian accent sound like?

Thank you for the reply!

EDIT: I also wanted to ask if there is any way of finding out what accent I have? I have absolutely no idea and I feel like it's a mixture between several accents. Is there anything I can do in order to find out what accent I have? I spotted this website but it doesnt make much sense to me: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/text-only/scotland/selkirk/

Re: Learn various accents/dialects

nona the brit — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:08:28 GMT

accent: a way of speaking typical of a particular group of people and especially of the natives or residents of a region

dialect: a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language

Dialects need a greater variation from the 'standard' or other varieties, whereas accent is more about pronounciation.

You should find this wiki article on British English accents and dialects useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English

I'd disagree that RP is the standard English accent - only about 2% of us speak it. And certainly the other dialects did not develop from RP - they developed over hundreds if not thousands of years for a variety of reasons. For example, there is still a language difference between the areas that were ruled by the Vikings and the rest of the country. The history of English as spoken in England is a very interesting one due to the constant influence of other languages.

I don't know how many different English accents there are. Some areas have their own accent and even some cities/towns have their own accent. 'Lots' would be my best answer, although many of them can be loosely grouped together. I know someone who reckons you can tell which side of her village-street people were born on, as the accents are slightly different! She could be pulling my leg though...

Scottish (two t's) - again there isn't a single Scottish accent. Someone from Glasgow sounds different to someone from Edinburgh, for example, but there are some overall similarities. All I know is that they often do not pronounce the letter "h", so here becomes 'ere - I haven't noticed my Scottish friends doing this?,

and my becomes 'me', *** sounds like fock, up like op and so on. That's pretty much all I know. Also, is there any place online where I can listen to this accent? I don't care what I listen to, may it be a podcast, or an audio book, I really don't care, I just want to grasp the accent. To be honest, what you are saying here sounds more like an Irish accent to me than Scottish?

Also, with British accents you have to factor in class as well as geography. That makes a difference to how people speak. My Scottish friends are two sisters with quite different accents, even though they grew up together. One went to a local private school and has a posher accent than the one who went to the local state school.