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mustafamah6at
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 Message 17 of 21
10 May 2015 at 11:32pm | IP Logged 
I have heared many times that british people don't like american accent, becuase they
think their accent is the original :D
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Medulin
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 Message 18 of 21
11 May 2015 at 12:07am | IP Logged 
mustafamah6at wrote:
I have heared many times that british people don't like american accent, becuase they
think their accent is the original :D


But the American accent is the ''original''
the origin being Southern Irish and West Country. ;)
As far as pronunciation is concerned, the contemporary Dublin Irish is much closer to General American than RP or Estuary are, listen to this Dubliner announcing CĂ©line Dion:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLPlhvgE9qA


George Bernard Shaw once said " the best English is spoken in Ireland".

Edited by Medulin on 11 May 2015 at 12:12am
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11 May 2015 at 2:27pm | IP Logged 
George Bernard Shaw was Irish, so he would say that, wouldn't he? My father used to do
pocket money jobs for him in the late 1940s and reports that he was a most disagreeable
fellow.
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 Message 20 of 21
12 May 2015 at 7:52pm | IP Logged 
I'm an American living in England and I get a wide variety of responses. A lot of students say, "You're American! That's so cool!" Others say, "when are you going to lose your accent?" The responses are overwhelmingly on the positive side, and sometimes my accent elicits odd (to me) responses such as the elderly man who said to me, "American? I've never understood this American habit of drinking cold tea."
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 Message 21 of 21
12 May 2015 at 8:36pm | IP Logged 
Jeffers wrote:
I'm an American living in England and I get a wide variety of responses. A lot of students say, "You're American! That's so cool!" Others say, "when are you going to lose your accent?" The responses are overwhelmingly on the positive side, and sometimes my accent elicits odd (to me) responses such as the elderly man who said to me, "American? I've never understood this American habit of drinking cold tea."


Interesting. Me too. (ex-pat American)


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