Anyone’s who’s read this blog for a while knows how much I love the British accent. My son, however, has such a difficult time understanding them that he won’t even bother watching movies or TV shows that feature British actors. Considering that some of my very favorite movies and TV shows do actually feature British actors, you can see how we don’t spend much time watching together.
Of course I’d be lying if I said the accents never confuse me. But then, the confusion is a big part of the fun! 😉
That video is from the Anglophenia channel on YouTube. Other videos from them that I liked were How To Insult Like the British, Why Brits and Americans Spell Differently, and Brits vs Americans: Who’s Smarter?
And on the subject of whether Brits or Americans are smarter, I think this Hugh Laurie and Ellen DeGeneres “competition” clip answers that question rather nicely – at least when it comes to interpreting each others speech! 😀
Did you see how the show cheated for Ellen on her “Chuffed To Bits” answer? So much for those Jaguar ads! 
I want ice water.
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I Want Ice Water! 
Haha brilliant I just love the British slang words.
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Those really are cool. Now if only they’d come out with an app that would teach me to speak that way! 😀
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My dear man.. I tried during my stay there but it’s not to be. How Hugh made such a great American accent considering his earlier huge British accent is just amazing.
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It still freaks me out to hear Laurie speak in that British accent! 😀
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After umpteen seasons of “House,” I still can’t get used to Laurie’s real accent. And neither he nor Ellen was pronouncing some of those words the way I would (I suppose that’s my own accent kicking in). As for the British expressions, I think “chin wag” was the only one I’ve heard before. I’m far more intrigued by the “weird” way Brits pronounce some English words — such as schedule, controversy, etc. They, of course, think we Yanks have mangled their language.
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I feel the same way you do about Laurie’s real accent PT. But what really bugs me is how badly I do when I try to speak that way. I mean, considering how many people do accents really well, how hard can it be? Well, for me at least, it’s damned hard!
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I couldn’t do a recognizable accent if my life depended on it (although apparently I do Okie rather well without even trying). My son does what sounds to me like a great cockney accent, but he was in two different productions of “Oliver” in high school and got some pretty good coaching.
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After working so hard to lose my hillbilly accent, I can understand how easy that Okie thing is to fall back into. Your son did it the right way, with lots of feedback and coaching. Being the anti-social type, I’d probably have to resort to using a recorder of some sort! 😀
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I, of course, don’t hear my accent. But I got teased and/or questioned about it a lot back during Rush Week in Boulder in 1961. Made me a bit self-conscious about it, but I’ve never made a conscious effort to lose it.
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I was teased unmercifully when I moved from Charleston, W.VA. to Los Angeles when I was twelve, and just as much when I moved from there to Ohio at fourteen. Being self-conscious is an understatement of how I felt, and I did make a conscious effort to lose it. To this day I wonder how well I did!
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Mark Strong and Ben Kingsley in the one ad ????? – how much did THAT cost, I wonder …?
Great, though. 🙂
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They’re trying to get their money’s worth though. I’ve seen at least three ads total, no doubt all shot in the same few hours! 😀
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Considering Jaguar must’ve paid out in the several millions, it’s not very surprising, eh, Izaak ?!
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Not in the least, my friend! 😀
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Having worked over in the UK, I love their use of language and slang. This one was fun.
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Thanks Val!!! 😀
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She’s adorable! that was too much fun. Though I think I’m still away with the fairies on some of it — did I use that right? Probably not.. but I did it in my best Brit accent EVER! 🙂
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Funny Carmen, my friends have been telling me I’m away with the fairies my whole life, just not nearly as nicely! I was joking with one the other day about how nice it would be to have an app that taught us to speak with different accents. Of course, if I could just do this…
Everyone could hear the awesome British accent already in my head! 🙄
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I hadn’t seen that commercial! If we could all do that, it’d be AWESOME! LOL! Oh, imagine the possibilities!
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The possibilities indeed! Of course, I’d need to keep certain thoughts to myself – like the ones I have when seeing beauties in Wonder Woman costumes!
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