What celebrity do you sound like?

[barrk]

To me there sounds like there are quite a few British accents ranging from hard core cockney to Laurence Olivier. What accent comes from where???? Who do you sound like?

[HarryW]

Uhh... I dunno.... you'd have to talk to me.

[CiberTHuG]

They don't let people with voices like mine be celebrities.

[Bonker Gudd]

My laugh's like Basil Brush's!

[paulw]

Definitely more like Larry O than Harry O!

Cockney is London,
RP like Olivier is generally South East

Newcastle area, Manchester, Liverpool all have very strong regional accents.

Birmingham is the worst and West Country can be totally not understandable.

Cheers,

P.

PS Night all.

[HarryW]

I'm originally westcountry, moved to Guildford and surrounded by estuary English speakers. Dad's from Lancashire and partly Devon and I've got a lot of his mannerisms, including a bit of his accent. So kind of a mixture.

[Pix]

My accent isn't very distinctive, just a typical English accent really

[Cander]

I sound like Liberache.. LAAAAAAAAAAA! ssst

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by paulw
RP like Olivier is generally South East

Yep!

I don't sound like anyone famous, but apparently I sound identical to one of my mates...

[barrk]

Okay....that wasn't much help actually.

I thought your accents were much more diversified like the US. The New York accent (the Sopranos) is very recognizable as is the Boston (Cliff from Cheers), Mid West(Wizard of Oz) and Southern(Gone with the Wind) and Western (all the kids from Buffy) accents.

I hear a lot of difference between say, John Cleese, Eliza Doolittle before Henry Higgins got a hold of her) and Laurence Olivier. Maybe you don't.

[Pix]

Yeah I hear a lot of difference and the British accents are quite diverse.

[aknisely]

Woody Allen. Not really an accent as much as it is an infection. Oh well.

[Ianpbaker]

there is alot of differance between regions. for instance, when i was working up north, every one thinks your talking really posh, where as I don't see that at all

[barrk]

Do you sit by the fire in a smoking jacket reading novels, drinking sherry and speaking like Alistair Cooke?

[Ianpbaker]

nahh, I stand next to the barrel fire, wearing an old duffel coat, drinking cheap whiskey, sounding like barney from the simpson's

[barrk]

Damn, another illusion shattered!

[chrisjk]

Who do you sound like

Daffy Duck, or if I try, Anne Robinson

[filburt1]

I can do a James Bond impersonation. And I can say "excellent" like Mr. Burns on the (_8(|)s.

[crptcblade]

Shaggy from Scooby Doo, only with a slightly deeper voice.

[JungleMan]

I'm very good at impersonations...

i can do Boris from Goldeneye-- "I am invincible!"

[Jimmy Changas]

donald duck with a cold... wait ...

[aknisely]

Ernest Borgnine.

[denniswrenn]

I sound like Beavis from Beavis & Butthead...... huh heh huehehe hehe yeah... hehe huh hehh hu hhu eh ueheh hehe nads huh uh hu hu.. *boo ii nnn ggg*

[aknisely]

That's more distressing than impressive, dennis.

[crptcblade]

Originally posted by denniswrenn
huh heh huehehe hehe yeah... hehe huh hehh hu hhu eh ueheh hehe nads huh uh hu hu.. *boo ii nnn ggg*

If you look at it the right way, it almost looks like an Urkel impression

[HarryW]

There's a lot of variation in dialects of English in the UK, but it's not easy to say exactly who you sound like.

[zmerlinz]

i have a mild Fen accent, it could be compared to a farmers sterotypical accent, though a strong fen accent can be difficult to understand, and i am going to Wales to uni in a few weeks so my accent will be screwed

and all of my friends think that i look like Shaggy from Scooby Doo

[Mark Sreeves]

I sound like Stephen Hawking

[HarryW]

I went to Wales once. I don't plan on going back if I can help it - it's full of the bloody Welsh.

[Jim Brown]

I do a pretty mean Bob Dylan. (Don't say "Who?". Katie will remember him. (Don't worry, I'm a few years older than you K))

And I have a colleague who does a really superb Nelson Mandela. (Don't say you've forgotton him already....)

When I was standing in the lunch line at my employer's head office in London years ago, the chef asked me if I was on the telly, because I had such a good voice. He then embarrased me totally next day, by calling out to me "Ah, here's the TV man". Everyone turned to look, expecting bloody Wogan or someone.

[zmerlinz]

funny that

[simonm]

West Country can be totally not understandable.

What? No way! The most difficult accent (in Britain) to understand in my opinion is a Glaswegian. The speak a million miles an hour and if it was anymore different, it would have to be called another language. Let's just say that I understand a french person more than I understand a Glaswegian (and I don't even speak French).

The so called "West country" accent is sub divided again into many different variations. For example, the Cornish have a distinctly different accent from Devonians. The Cornish even have their own language (similar to Welsh) although not many people speak it these days.

I think there are a lot more British accents than you would be aware of just watching American films (with British people portrayed). British people always seem to be portrayed with a classic, old fashioned, cocky accent (that is usuall used to denote all working class accents) or a posh, well spoken, victorian accent (that is hardly spoken by anyone these days).

[Pix]

Originally posted by Ianpbaker
there is alot of differance between regions. for instance, when i was working up north, every one thinks your talking really posh, where as I don't see that at all

But southerners do talk posh! In some places they sound like the queens English