When I did the research for my US book entitled My 1,000 Americans, I met a man from California who wanted me to say “Sheer to Waist Panty Hose” over and over again apparently he loved the way I pronounced the letter T.
I then noticed one of the American female members on ILYA hoped to meet a man from Newcastle and wanted him to say “Paper Plates “ as only a Geordie can. For those who are unfamiliar with that dialect it would sound something like “peey-a- per plee-yats . Try it, but only when you are alone!
Its interesting what attracts others to the way we talk and in the UK the way one speaks can usually announce to which social class we belong, but that cannot be said for the likes of Multi millionaire David Beckam with his cockney accent, or Guy Ritchie who also has an East London pronunciation both of whom are certainly not working class any longer
Stephen Fry has said he “sometimes wonders if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there”.
Vey posh English Accents may well confuse Americans into believing we are somehow connected to Royalty, just saying Oh Hello should be said Air-Hair- Lair to be terribly upper class and completely befuddle them.
The word ALL RIGHT is used in different ways in the UK.
We use it as a greeting as in,
All right?
Yeah, you?
Or
‘How was the movie?
“It was alright”
OR RIGH is the way it’s pronounced in Cockney and by the way, no one uses rhyming slang any more except Americans trying to DO an English accent.
It’s also an Americanism to use it in a jubilant way as in
The Lakers are winning, Al riiiiight!
If you have a special way of pronouncing something, please share it with us here. We promise not to laugh, alright?
Say it again!
Say it again!
When I did the research for my US book entitled My 1,000 Americans, I met a man from California who wanted me to say “Sheer to Waist Panty Hose” over and over again apparently he loved the way I pronounced the letter T.
I then noticed one of the American female members on ILYA hoped to meet a man from Newcastle and wanted him to say “Paper Plates “ as only a Geordie can. For those who are unfamiliar with that dialect it would sound something like “peey-a- per plee-yats . Try it, but only when you are alone!
Its interesting what attracts others to the way we talk and in the UK the way one speaks can usually announce to which social class we belong, but that cannot be said for the likes of Multi millionaire David Beckam with his cockney accent, or Guy Ritchie who also has an East London pronunciation both of whom are certainly not working class any longer
Stephen Fry has said he “sometimes wonders if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there”.
Vey posh English Accents may well confuse Americans into believing we are somehow connected to Royalty, just saying Oh Hello should be said Air-Hair- Lair to be terribly upper class and completely befuddle them.
The word ALL RIGHT is used in different ways in the UK.
We use it as a greeting as in,
All right?
Yeah, you?
Or
‘How was the movie?
“It was alright”
OR RIGH is the way it’s pronounced in Cockney and by the way, no one uses rhyming slang any more except Americans trying to DO an English accent.
It’s also an Americanism to use it in a jubilant way as in
The Lakers are winning, Al riiiiight!
If you have a special way of pronouncing something, please share it with us here. We promise not to laugh, alright?
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