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Favourite accent, and why!

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  1. Poppy

    Poppy grasshopper

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    Here's my favourite accent...
    "Ello guvna, care for a cup of tea?,...It is right cold out there"

    I could be an actor.
     
  2. Ben Dover

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    Cockney...

    My father was born in Hoxton, London February 1939, that same year, he moved to Battersea, London with his parents - all to the sounds of Bow-Bells.. Basically.
    He'd speak professionally for professional reasons and normal around the house, but for party tricks around the house to entertain us kids; he'd regale us with stories growing up as a kid himself; teaching us Cockney.

    'Ow's your belly full o' spots Guv'nor?' means 'How are you?'
    Moggy means Cat
    Frog and toad means Road
    Camel means Bus
    That poor moggy down the frog and toad ran underneath that camel...

    My father says he grew up along side such people as Peter Frampton, trading girlfriends with him at the lido or indoor pool, actors Michael Caine 'real name Maurice Micklewhite' and remembers riding his bike with Johnny Briggs the day sweets 'candy' came off rationing.

    .. I find myself saying 'Guv' or Guv'nor at work sometimes... I think I do it to let them know I'm not Polish.. IDK, just happens.
    Also, there's this sweet little tom-cat neighbour cat that's started hanging around everybody on this road... I saw him sitting on this wall as I was parking my car once, parked up, got out, opened the door and he jumped down to see me because I said hello - cool cat - then he wondered upon his little cat self whether or not to get in my car giving it a good ol' smell... I had to pick him up and put him down again just so I could close my car door without fear of hurting him... - sweet cat. Didn't know his name at time but with cats, I tend to just be... So I call them 'mew' and say stuff like 'how are you mew? when talking to them, especially if they walk you home and greet you.' - anyway, whatever, just do.
    Cats are friendly still, even when they sit they'd say hi to you, so you just go 'sup?' as you're passing cats you know... - don't judge me - So anyway; the other day/week, I saw the same sweet little cat who knows everybody sitting at my doorstep as he does, I was on my way out to class and I saw him and I had never seen him wet before, it had been raining, so I petted him and addressed his wet matted fur on his back, drying him off real quick and out of nowhere I said
    "Awww, you're a soggy moggy aren't you?"
    as I was drying him off. My Nan fed him as I went off to class.

    Imagine if knees had cocks...
    I'd be kneeing somebody in the vagina!
    (Okay, now you can judge me)..!
     
  3. JMD62

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    Hey guys,

    Well, my response would refer only to women. I love a gal with an English Cockney accent for sure, followed by an Irish accent and in close third, a good ol' Southern (U.S. Gulf area) accent. However, if the woman is hot, she'll sound good no matter what.. ;D
     
  4. toki2

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    I love any nationality speaking in their local adopted twang. Italian/ Chinese/ Indian Glaswegian is so endearing. Had an Italian neighbour, who could make swearing sound like a compliment. My sister in law reprimanding her children in Scottish Gaelic is also most impressive.
     
  5. Skipper

    Skipper Kommodore

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNvM_A5h1Vo

    enjoy!
     
  6. Dave55

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    Reminds me of this one:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkpGM_MvZ2Y
     
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