http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aVowels+tag%3aPronunciation+tag%3aBritish+AccentSearch results for 'tag:Vowels tag:Pronunciation tag:British Accent' matching tags 'Vowels', 'Pronunciation', and 'British Accent'en-USXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowLearnTalkBritishAccent/11/brjvc/Post.htm#445415Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:39:02 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:445415anonymousTo all of you who want a British accent: Although I've mentioned on this website that I've made a website of poems, with my clear English voice recording attached to them, and although since last year almost 24000 people have visited it from across the world, I have never heard from anyone in English Forums that they have found it useful. Poems are fun, the language is varied, they are short enough to do one poem, listening to the words, checking meanings, noting spellings, reading it through copying my voice etc in only half an hour thoroughly. A good idea then is to learn them and recite them. Our children in Britain learn our language through poetry. My three year old daughter, Jessica, knows lots of rhymes. They are fun. When you...http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowLearnTalkBritishAccent/10/brjvc/Post.htm#394693Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:32:04 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:394693brunateI have mentioned this before on this website, but I hope it will help you. I am poet who has made available freely about 240 of my own poems on the internet, but I have also added my clear English voice to each poem to help both overseas students studying the English language and especially children of our own country who are struggling with reading. When you read words like: cough; through; though; bough and dough - you may not realize that they all have completely different vowel sounds, so listening and reading at the same time is an excellent way of improving both your pronunciation and spelling. Even the English realize that our language is difficult to others. I have been a teacher all my life, and for many years I have taught ESL...http://www.englishforums.com/English/HaveQuestionAboutBritishAccent/21/ghk/Post.htm#324348Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:50:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:324348anonymousXam0 wrote: There is definately an upstate NY accent. The vowels in the middle of some words are either changed or pronounced as dipthongs. Ill put the normal spelling of some words followed by the upstate NY pronunciation.. and then the north jersey pronunciation (where im from) which is fairly neutral compared to upstate ny. Dog -- dwog -- dog Frog -- frohg --frog Cat -- keeyat -- kat Mat -- meeyat -- mat Walk -- wooawk -- wahk Map -- meeyap -- map Hat -- heeyat -- hat Creek -- crick -- kreek Water -- wuohdr -- wahdr Ball -- bowul -- bahl Fall -- fowul -- fahl Hair -- hayer -- hare Fair -- fayer -- fare Have -- hyav -- hav Has -- hyaz -- haz Also, upstate NY, like NJ does not make a distinction in pronunciation between "Mary,...http://www.englishforums.com/English/AmericanFeaturesUk/dndcl/post.htm#317416Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:46:28 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:317416kooyeenAnonymous wrote: The American pronunciation of “o” in your next example wouldn’t be found in any regional accent of British English that I can call to mind immediately, though there is considerable variation in the pronunciation of this sound – for example, in Scotland, Liverpool and the West Country. Similarly, there are variations in the pronunciation of the “talk, walk, call” vowel and the “no, so, low” diphthong from region to region – but none that I can think of that are close enough to the American pronunciation to be considered the same. The tap/flap is quite a distinctive feature of American English. It’s not in the standard British English inventory, but you might hear it in some Irish accents. I've heard...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhichAccent/dkgpp/post.htm#301934Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:52:06 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:301934marvin a.To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to pull off either an American or British accent. "British English" and "American English" consist of 3 parts--accent, spelling, and lexicon. As for accent: when people learn an American accent, they learn what is known as "General American"--an accent based on a generalized Midwestern accent, spoken in the 1950's Narrowly definied, this accent is only spoken by very old speakers (80 year olds) in the Midwestern and Western portions of the US, and in a couple of 90 year olds in Canada. Broadly...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ReceivedPronunciationAtlantic-English/3/cvrlc/Post.htm#225839Tue, 16 May 2006 10:41:48 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:225839colomboTallulah Tam wrote: I feel that Alan Jay Lerner was not so concerned about his own grammar when he wrote the song, he insults the intelligence of the audience by using the word "hung" incorrectly, especially when putting the words into the mouth of Professor Higgins who as I said, should, and most likely would, have known better. Also the rhyming is bad. Henry, 'Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter, Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered. By law she should be taken out and hung, For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.' I would modestly suggest:- Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter, Condemned by every syllable to utter. By law she should be taken out to hang For the cold-blooded murder of the English...http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowLearnTalkBritishAccent/3/brjvc/Post.htm#176086Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:01:28 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:176086forbes' Ow, eez ye-ooa san,is e?' 'Oh, he's your son is he?' The Shavian spelling rather over-emphasises the Cockney pronunciation, although some linguists maintain that there are only dipthongs and no "pure" vowels in Cockney. To some ears Cokney pronounced words can seem to have extra syllables, so that the Cockney pronounciation of Cockney can sound like Cockerney. Dick van *** famously got it all a bit wrong in Mary Poppins.http://www.englishforums.com/English/PoorAccent/bpmpk/post.htm#161796Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:58:37 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:161796crux_onlineThere are a number of variations within the British accent. Here are some suggestions on how to improve your accent: 1. If you have any close British friends or acquaintences, speak with them as often as possible while imitating their accent. Sometimes people are offended by this because they believe you to be mocking them or poking fun. Let them know that this is not the case and don't be afraid to ask them to say some things slowly so you can hear the sound changes. Generally you will want to learn the accent of educated people because the uneducated often develop very bad habits of pronunciation while the educated often cling like barnacles to their pride in well-spoken English. 2. Watch the speaker's mouth closely,...http://www.englishforums.com/English/HaveQuestionAboutBritishAccent/19/ghk/Post.htm#156413Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:09:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:156413tallulah tamTo continue..... I think the sound quality is an important difference between the two languages besides the pronunciation. The Americans tend to drone in the middle tone, wheras the English have a more lilting quality and the Welsh more so; but the vowel sounds are what they pick up on first. When I was at University I was asked several times to say, "The car is parked in Harvard Yard".http://www.englishforums.com/English/HaveQuestionAboutBritishAccent/19/ghk/Post.htm#156405Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:45:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:156405tallulah tamWhen I came to live in the States I joined a singing group. Not a band, more a choral society. I was told when we were singing Shenandoah not to sing "water" with an English accent, it was meant to be sung with an American pronunciation where the "a" in water rhymes more with our English pronunciation of pa and ma. Strangely, in both the American and English dictionary it gives the pronunciation as waw -ter. but their version comes out very differently. The American language does not possess the vowel sounds of the English version of watch or water. I think if you listen carefully you will hear the American accent when they are singing. Incidentally, I think you DO have an accent! The way you say "Corri" and "mate" I can almost hear it.http://www.englishforums.com/English/AForeignersQuestionBritish-Pronunciation/hlcdd/post.htmWed, 15 Jun 2005 08:13:22 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:639322danillaHello. I've heard (say, in some British songs) the following pronunciation: the vowel in "got" was pronounced in a sort of American manner, more like in "but", for example. That was Blur, by the way. The sound was not even short, it lasted for some time (because it's a song). It's interesting, how you (the British) feel it. Is it felt to be something alien or just one of the British accents? Also, I didn't notice any other occurence of such pronunciation with any other words where a similar thing could happen, say "pot", "stop", etc. I mean I didn't notice it in Blur's singer's speech/singing. Thank youhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/HaveQuestionAboutBritishAccent/8/ghk/Post.htm#41338Sun, 08 Aug 2004 22:09:45 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:41338xam0There is definately an upstate NY accent. The vowels in the middle of some words are either changed or pronounced as dipthongs. Ill put the normal spelling of some words followed by the upstate NY pronunciation.. and then the north jersey pronunciation (where im from) which is fairly neutral compared to upstate ny. Dog -- dwog -- dog Frog -- frohg --frog Cat -- keeyat -- kat Mat -- meeyat -- mat Walk -- wooawk -- wahk Map -- meeyap -- map Hat -- heeyat -- hat Creek -- crick -- kreek Water -- wuohdr -- wahdr Ball -- bowul -- bahl Fall -- fowul -- fahl Hair -- hayer -- hare Fair -- fayer -- fare Have -- hyav -- hav Has -- hyaz -- haz Also, upstate NY, like NJ does not make a distinction in pronunciation between "Mary,...http://www.englishforums.com/English/HaveQuestionAboutBritishAccent/6/ghk/Post.htm#10807Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:45:13 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:10807kalebA very interesting question. I am an American, and when I took some private singing lessons several years ago, the instructor made me alter my pronunciation when singing, explaining that the pronunciation used when we talk is distracting in music and is often difficult to understand. The way he made me pronounce things, it sounded to me like I was trying to imitate a British accent. Most notably, my pronunciation of most vowel sounds when singing changed significantly, and the "R" sound got softened when used as a consonant, and completely disappeared when used as part of a diphthong. To this day I habitually use this alternate pronunciation when singing, though I am not a professional musician. Much of the pronunciation change...