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[Wing Woo Gar]

Me? I actually am from Manchester!

Funny I can’t hear your accent when you type.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

I'm not bothered. As far as I'm concerned, Americans have improved on the design of the pizza (and will insist on this point) and have expanded the language. Anybody who can invent bourbon, country music and beef jerky can't be all bad.

Except the country music,I’m with you.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

‘Friends’

Ugh! You dropped 2 levels of esteem for that.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

That’s not quite right (having lived in Yorkshire…or rather Yok-shuh for a long time). Tattoo would be Tattoooo, Karate would be Karatee (with short a sounds). Rather than saying “In the bath” they’d say, “Int’ bath’.

Ta-oo is known as a ‘glottal stop’ and beloved of Londoners

I heard a Yok-shun farmer, who’d brought his border collie into the vets speaking to the receptionist who asked what he was in for. He replied, in a very staccato fashion, “Wull , ‘e’s booked int’ fut deh” meaning ‘He’s booked in for the day’.

Well, this guy is born/raised yorkshire and that's how he pronounces it. Can't say anything on if that's normal or not, just how he does kt.

 

[Gyakuto]

Well I grew up in New England near Boston and I should talk like this, but I don't

Sounds very normal to me…slightly New Yorky…

 

[Xue Sheng]

Sounds very normal to me…slightly New Yorky…

Not even close actually.... and i have known folks with stronger boston accents than his.... it gets stronger on the Northshore......also there are multiple accents in New York, especially in NYC and they can siound very different.

 

[Gyakuto]

Ugh! You dropped 2 levels of esteem for that.

Actually Ross days ‘Karah-tay’ in the ‘Unagi’ episode…

 

[Gyakuto]

Not even close actually.... and i have known folks with stronger boston accents than his.... it gets stronger on the Northshore......also there are multiple accents in New York, especially in NYC and they can siound very different.

It’s very understandable to my ears. Some of those slurry southern accents are unintelligible to me.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Actually Ross days ‘Karah-tay’ in the ‘Unagi’ episode…

its carrotee...sheesh...

actually I have had someone here tell someone else that I was teaching Tie Ch-eye

 

[Gyakuto]

actually I have had someone here tell someone else that I was teaching Tie Ch-eye

I believe they sell that in Starbucks…