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I am horrendously guilty of adopting the respective foreign tinged version of English in whatever country I'm in after a few shandies. 😳
surroundedbyhills - Member
I tend to mimic the accents of whomever I'm around the most, it's like a form of tourettes
This. It used to really confuse people at work.
My two have been in Newcastle for about 2 years now 😯
came home once and pronounced "H" as "Haitch"
We had this last night for the first time. I nipped that in the bud quick sharp. Living in the north west it's endemic, even among the (apparently) educated.
The next word she'll be learning to spell is "aitch". It's in the dictionary everyone!
I've been away from Yorkshire since 1994 yet I sound like a run the local farm on t'ops from thar Yorkshire lad (still)..
Hora, you really REALLY don't.
My eldest (11) is native Perthshire, but can do great Bolton and Blackburn accents at will - usually when he's taking the piss out of his parents!
And all those worried out pronouncing Haitch, you can start worrying when they come out with jai (like eye, but with a j in front) when they mean the letter J, or Etch, when they mean aitch!
Dundee IS worse though!
Grew up in Dundee with west coast parents then lived in Glasgow followed by Suffolk and now Cheshire. According to most of my clients I am the Irish vet? Don't hear it myself but describe my accent as mongrelised.
Can vary it, gets stronger when go home or speak to my sis on the phone but can do a good 'phone' voice too.
If Lewis wants a truly sexy accent, he can spend a bit of time getting elocution lessons from me. 🙂
Hamilton's accent is a hybrid, same as his genetic material. That's a future citizen of the world you're looking at.
He's a pretty good racing driver.
Cal Crutchlow has done a bit of a Steve McLaren, as did Gary Verity last year having spent so much time with Prudhomme, obviously a natural (if amusing) side effect of speaking English with non native English speakers.
My accent changes wherever I live quite quickly. So what?
Lewis is an awesome sportsman, usually conducts himself impeccably, but he's young and will make the odd faux pas. So what?
I don't think the effect is as pronounced with very strong accents. It's more with Europeans and Middle Eastern folk who learned English accentlessly or through Business and not through a dialect, you end up with that curious "mid atlantic" version which is not quite UK, not quite US english.Sounds odd.
Yeah my wife has this as she went to an American International School but then came to the UK to study at undergrad level.
A global accent will end up being the sign of being one of the elite, as globalti pointed out. Different world, once you're rich enough you can live where you want, state borders no longer exist.
Hamilton's placeless accent is no worse than one of the Athertons - Rachel, or Gee in particular, who sound like they are desperately trying to hide every trace of their coun'ry bumpkin Wiltshire roots, with this mid-Atlantic dirge. Probably also a product of hanging out with too many non-native English speakers (aka Americans) 😉
I have a Lebanese customer in Monrovia who rings me from time to time and shouts down the phone; he has a bogus American accent and I know he's never lived in the USA. He's a really conceited, pompous idiot. Keeps saying: "Liberia's ebola free! When are you coming to see me my friend?" I only went there once and it was ghastly; I'd rather go to Lagos.
So lewis and the athertons going one way while Blair, Osbourne and even Cambridge are going the other with occasionally flurries of full estuary....all rather amusing.
Good driver ,shit bloke !