British should be eevee if anything. There are double the British accents compared to American ones. Cockney, London, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Ireland are extremely distinct let alone the hundreds of other distinct regional accents.
Same for the us, though. NY, Boston, Midwestern, New England, Minnesota, Atlantic, Southern, Texan, Pacific Nw, Californian. And various specific regional like queens, Brooklyn, Philly. It goes on and on. The US is not the monolith it’s often described as.
Tbf they only sound “extremely distinct” to British people. A lot of those accents are hard to distinguish for non-native speakers or people outside the UK.
Tell that to someone from Bawston lol, the US has way more than 2 accents for sure. UK does have a lot though, not sure who actually has more. Let’s find a linguist!
A Boston accent is different from a New York accent, is different from a Missouri accent, is different from a Mississippi accent, is different from a Florida accent, is different from a Texas accent, is different from an Oklahoma accent, etc. Even within states, it fully depends on how rural you live, whether you went to college… hell, even your tax bracket in some cases.
I say this as an Australian that grew up in America: the sheer size of the place is enough to have something like fifty regional accents per state. Like everything with the US: it’s fucking insane.
Lmao to me Britain has two accents, Scottish and English. The rest sound the same. Y’all think your accents are so special to the point where it gets cringe sometimes.
Now comes the hard part of defining all the Eeveelutions.
I feel like there are a few very distinct regional accents, but I’m having trouble coming up with the right distinction from the top of my head.
There’s New England, the south in general, New York, Chicago which immediately trigger my brain to think of a very specific accent. Surely there is more to it though?
Maybe for the regions that only speak one language. East Texas alone mixes English, Spanish, French and German dialects. It’s like a sitcom of bad accents down there.
I’ve had a scottish-texan accent for half a year once, and now I have an american accent sometimes while speaking german, my mother language, shit’s wild
Scottish-Texan? I can’t even comprehend what that would sound like. Congratulations, you’ve been speaking an eldritch tongue. Try not to summon Cthulhu.
I have a buddy who learned English as a second language early in life and he has a fluent Irish accent. I’ve never been able to wrap my head around that one.
I once took a short trip through the south of Germany near Nuremberg … we were just on a random trip not knowing what we were doing in a rental car. We stopped at a gas station to get gas and got some help from an attendant, a young German teenager who spoke some English.
He talked to us in the weirdest accent I ever heard … a combination of English with a German accent and a touch of southern Texan or southern American. He had grown up learning English from army personnel from the American US base nearby.
I’m Canadian in Ontario and the first five years of my life, all I spoke or heard was my cultural language Ojibway-Cree. I went to school where I learned English but continued to only mostly speak my language.
Then I spent an awkward period as a teenager speaking English with a Native accent … a classic TV stereotypical Native accent and it was horrible. It took me about a decade to get over that phase, now I speak English as boringly as any Canadian. Not bad eh?
How about Northside Dubliners picking a Dub Southside accent to sound posher, or Southsiders picking a Northside Dub accent to sound more gangsta? It’s an actual thing. ^^
Speaking of Irish accents! First time I heard someone with a Cork accent I lost my shit. It sounds exactly like a Scanian (Southern Sweden) person speaking with an Irish accent. It’s delightful.
Interesting. German schools teach British English. It’s with time that I was more and more influenced by American English but first and foremost I have a strong German accent
I think it was British pronunciation considering that (at least when I was still in school) we also learned to write British English instead of American English.
Later on in high school they said you could write either, but you had to stick to one or it would count as a mistake.
Around that same time. Searching online I didn’t find anything saying it’s either one but rather both with both being acceptable (but not mixing as mentioned). Seems to depend on the teacher with lot of the older (possibly now retired) teachers being more familiar and teaching British English, sometimes as the only “correct” one and younger (not particularly young now) generation of teachers being more familiar with American English and teaching primarily that.
So, depends. Both are taught, there’s no unified policy for preference of one over another that I could find.
Okay cool.
There's a chance that I had a British English teacher back in the secondary school...I don't recall much, let alone speaking British myself.
At one point I had one of those teachers that thought British English was the only correct one. She was a real superfan of the British royal family and took sickdays or just made us watch with her if there was some televised event hah.
It’s just as bad in spanish. I’m an american with a colombian paisa accent in spanish and it messes with the mexicans. They love it since it’s not what they usually hear.
Whenever someone who speaks Spanish asks me if I speak it, I always respond, “Oon pokeeto, paro solaminty en oon assento Gringo.” Gets either a laugh or a groan every time. 😈
I have a Brazilian friend who every now and again will say a word with a perfect Irish accent because that’s how she learned it. Catches you off guard every now and then lol
Don’t be discouraged, it doesn’t come naturally and there is good reason to do so. The Scots are generally awesome people and the world needs more fer’s, aye’s and nae’s in general.
Jus’ expose yerself tae sum more Sco’ish and ye’ll be jus’ fine, lad.
As an American I feel like either US or UK could be considered the “normal” one, UK or AUS the “fancy” one, and US and AUS the “wildcard” (from the UK perspective).
I’m English and my perspective is UK is both normal and fancy.
Aussie is wildcard.
US is just there because OP felt it needed to be involved for some reason.
Fancy maybe wouldn’t be the best word, perhaps exotic, but I know there’s plenty of us who, depending on the Aussie, might not be able to tell the accent from a British one and just go “ooh, accent, fancy”.
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