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Lol, just checked in. I love different accents – both North American and those from the UK.
IMO the accents in Atlantic Canada are the most interesting amalgam.
I do indeed pronounce the ‘t’ in ‘party’, but a stronger accent from my home city would pronounce it as ‘par-eh’ and drop the ‘t’ altogether.
The thing I found most weird when I moved to the US was how people change vowel sounds, pronouncing ‘a’ as ‘o’ in some words.
It still is possible in my home area to tell where someone with a strong accent is from to within 10 miles, but gradually accents are merging together.
“DH – where have you heard Welsh? – it is very odd, some people think it sounds like Pakistani-pronounced English.”
A friend of a friend is from Wales – and that friend is from London so I frequently hear the contrast while speaking to them both. Can’t really place my finger on teh difference – i guess Welsh sounds more “country” – not the sophisticated english “tony sinclair care to tanqueray?” english accent people are familiar with – but not really cockney either
Joe- that th as a t is common in italian influenced english
(th doesn’t happen in italian), west indian, as well as others. Don’t tink itsa bronx ting.
Lol, just checked in. I love different accents – both North American and those from the UK.
IMO the accents in Atlantic Canada are the most interesting amalgam.
I do indeed pronounce the ‘t’ in ‘party’, but a stronger accent from my home city would pronounce it as ‘par-eh’ and drop the ‘t’ altogether.
The thing I found most weird when I moved to the US was how people change vowel sounds, pronouncing ‘a’ as ‘o’ in some words.
It still is possible in my home area to tell where someone with a strong accent is from to within 10 miles, but gradually accents are merging together.
“DH – where have you heard Welsh? – it is very odd, some people think it sounds like Pakistani-pronounced English.”
A friend of a friend is from Wales – and that friend is from London so I frequently hear the contrast while speaking to them both. Can’t really place my finger on teh difference – i guess Welsh sounds more “country” – not the sophisticated english “tony sinclair care to tanqueray?” english accent people are familiar with – but not really cockney either
True – i guess that means the bottom is near. I’ll buy a 1 bedroom in clinton hill and sell it for 100x what i paid in 4 years – awesome!
Posted by: dirty_hipster at October 20, 2009 11:54 AM
I’ll settle for 3x
This story all over the real estate news:
A former GS banker sold his condo at 15 CPW for $21.5MM after buying it last year for $11.6MM.
biff,
tell joe not to mention cats or we’re toast.
Duly (another vocab word) noted…
Joe- that th as a t is common in italian influenced english
(th doesn’t happen in italian), west indian, as well as others. Don’t tink itsa bronx ting.
biff,
tell joe not to mention cats or we’re toast.
“DH, cant beat ’em? join ’em. then change handle to FilthyMONEY”
True – i guess that means the bottom is near. I’ll buy a 1 bedroom in clinton hill and sell it for 100x what i paid in 4 years – awesome!
Ok Joe, don’t get your knickers in a twist.