loved this. his London accent was a bit Ali G though. lol.

ha! brilliant!

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That was fascinating - loved the Dick VanDyke reference. I have heard that it was the worst cockney accent ever protrayed on screen.

Don Cheadle's cockney accent in the Ocean films was awe-inspiringly terrible.

His "general" English accent IS a bit too posh but I can forgive that for the jokes.

this is awesome.. my only familiarity with these accents come from american/brit pop culter things ... like garreth from the office, and uh ... ricky's characters from the office , and the dude that annoys garreth.. and the beatles..

there's a lot more variation than this, any slightly closed-in community talks differently. i'm from hull (north-east), and we have pretty much normal speech apart from 'oh' sounds - which sound like 'uhhhh', i think leeds has this too. but in surrounding farming areas they talk totally different, there's hundreds!

Can you at LEAST stop putting "u" where it doesn't belong? It's "humor!" Just one "u!"

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karaidl, it's a french word, could you stop dropping the "u" ffs?

as a brit i can certify the authenticity of this video... he's really very good when you consider the fact that he can do ALL these accents, and pretty much freestyle some comedy at the same time. his "urban" london accent was not "too ali g"... i mean younger people really do talk like that, yuh get meh? ali g copied us, not the other way around.

btw, my favourite american accent is that thing meg ryan does in top gun. where's that from? some kind of southern state i'm guessing, but not texas i think. it's soooo hot. take me to bed or lose me forever.

Where are the mancs eh? Also think he generalised Yorkshire a bit too much.

yeah good fookin point about manchester. but they only ever say "madferit" don't they? limited comedic possibilities.

yeeeeeehaaaaaaaar

that was cute. @ MINK: i don't think even meg ryan knew what she was trying to go for in that movie! i think it just ended up being what she is irl -- a connecticut-ian trying to be a sassy californian. that movie is set in san diego, but i can't remember if her character is supposed to be from somewhere else. lol, sorry for obsessing, it's 5 am and i can't fall asleep...

i would upvote if it were just a bit louder. i've got my laptop on full blast i can only barely hear it

calamitykate... you might be right that she's doing a bad version of it, whatever it is, but i have heard LOADS of people doing it in various documentaries. of course, google can't search for "hot chicks with the same accent as meg ryan in topgun" so i am a bit stuck for an example
and i am pretty sure she's supposed to be from somewhere else, i mean if that's her west coast accent then she needs to set up an acting school with dick van dyke.

edit: and hillary clinton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaDQ1vIuvZI

my own accent is totally screwed, it was somewhere between cockney and jamaican (south london) but nobody in lithuania understood me so gradually it went german to make it more precise, and now i have to consciously remember my old accent when i phone friends back home. My dad calls me schumacher.

i'd love to see an american version of this. and an irish one. and a canadian. and basically any english speaking country.

You have an entire region of people who speak like ozzy? Bloody terrify that is.

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LOL @ Mink: Schumacher!

Well Mink, can you maybe convince your fellow Brits to stop putting "s" where "z" belongs? Not that I mean to criticiZe.

Hey we invented the language! Stop corrupting it!

karaidl, criticise comes from the greek word kritikos, so maybe you want to put the k's back in?

and deano, the french and the germans invented english so i wouldn't get too cocky about it

Sshhh Mink, the Americans don't know that!

ok let's not tell them then.

I was waiting for him to break into the Numa Numa song.

Bloody brilliant.

Ha! I like it. Did he say he had another video for the Welsh? I'm going to go find it, I love that accent.

i think 'nite' is better than 'night'. and basically, i prefer american spelling (wikipedia examples: color for colour, center for centre, traveler for traveller,-ise for -ize, programme for program, skilful for skillful, chequered for checkered, etc.)

and here's the technical lowdown from wikipedia:

Most North American speech is rhotic, as English was in most places in the 17th century. Rhoticity was further supported by Hiberno-English, Scottish English, and West Country English. In most varieties of North American English, the sound corresponding to the letter "R" is a retroflex or alveolar approximant rather than a trill or a tap. The loss of syllable-final r in North America is confined mostly to the accents of eastern New England, New York City and surrounding areas, South Philadelphia, and the coastal portions of the South. Dropping of syllable-final r sometimes happens in natively rhotic dialects if r is located in unaccented syllables or words and the next syllable or word begins in a consonant. In England, lost 'r' was often changed into [ə] (schwa), giving rise to a new class of falling diphthongs. Furthermore, the 'er' sound of fur or butter, is realized in AmE as a monophthongal r-colored vowel (stressed [ɝ] or unstressed [ɚ] as represented in the IPA). This does not happen in the non-rhotic varieties of North American speech.

Lots more here

nite is better than night?!!! You have to be joking! That's the sort of spelling I expect to see in on chalkboards outside a rough pub in Peckham.

good stuff pipp.

btw, lithuanian is the oldest surviving indoeuropean language, meaning it's been well preserved and was developed a long time ago. it's close to sanskrit or something.

english is classified as "low german" by the way lol

not long before someone makes "internet english" official.

I like the dramatic entries all the time. :-)

You forget the Tewksbury/Gloustchester area, they sound very silmlar to prince Charles. Perhaps the Queens english accent. If you were there and tried to use her accent they'd think you're daft.

Why does he keep saying "everifin" with every British accent? Isn't there a dialect where they pronounce "th" normally?

no, there is not.

if you wanna go full on jamaican, you should drop the h, making everyting.

but only posh people and "normal" english speakers say "everything" afaik. Like on TV or in an awards ceremony or somefink. Liverpool has a th maybe. Sometimes it becomes "d" or "v" a bit, like "it's over der, on ver sofa". But let's face it, th is a hard sound to make in the middle of quick casual speech.

http://www.wikihow.com/Speak-in-a-British-Accent

*british accents - haha this made me *happy

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