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18 Oct 2017, 7:52 am

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18 Oct 2017, 9:17 am

Wimbledon



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18 Oct 2017, 1:20 pm

Mr. Bean
Harry Potter
The Beatles
The Union Jack
Foggy weather
Cars with the steering wheels on the right-hand side
The Queen
Cockney-rhyming slang
Scones
Tea
Cheddar cheese.



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18 Oct 2017, 1:30 pm

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19 Oct 2017, 1:22 pm

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19 Oct 2017, 3:36 pm

Raleigh wrote:
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LegoMaster2149 wrote:
Wonderful accents.

-LegoMaster2149 (Written on October 17, 2017)


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Yes, agree!


I am interested to know what you mean as I am from the UK. Which UK accents are your favourite? Which can't you understand?

There are probably many more than you realise. Have you ever heard a Cornish accent? I am from the Home Counties but my family are Cornish, I have had a lifetime of understanding them but my now wife couldn't understand anything my grandad said and I would have to translate for her :lol:



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19 Oct 2017, 4:02 pm

There is a great youtube series called Anglophenia which is kind of focused on Americans wanting to learn some quirks of British life.

They do one on accents where she does a good impression of quite a few. It's also just a good series to watch.



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19 Oct 2017, 4:21 pm

shoddy cars

strikes

no industry

top gear

polish people

rover

china

worcestershire sauce

empire, lack of it

maggie thatcher

magpies

edgar allan poe

watership down

bentley

ashens

barry

ZX spectrum

hills, lack of them

ruggedness in scotland

cool languages

welsh

and the titanic.


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19 Oct 2017, 4:29 pm

The first thing that came to my mind after reading the title is Tom Baker saying "Britain Britain Britain"


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19 Oct 2017, 4:42 pm

Kiprobalhato wrote:
hills, lack of them


:?: eh?



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19 Oct 2017, 4:46 pm

Biscuitman wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
hills, lack of them


:?: eh?


that was the one that made you go eh? I wanna know who barry is


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19 Oct 2017, 5:03 pm

SaveFerris wrote:
Biscuitman wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
hills, lack of them


:?: eh?


that was the one that made you go eh? I wanna know who barry is


I assumed it was Barry the town in south Wales



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19 Oct 2017, 8:00 pm

soccer
cricket


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19 Oct 2017, 9:22 pm

High-quality candy (or sweets, as it's called) and chocolate.

Dishes with funny-sounding names like bangers and mash, or bubble and squeak.

Dr. Who, and Jelly Babies.

Stereotypes like bad teeth, a sense of humor no one else gets, and always either being a villain or of royalty in American movies.

My own country really having the Queen of England being our head of state, and most of us not really having a problem with that, and her picture being on our money. :)



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19 Oct 2017, 9:33 pm

their NHS, something I wished we had a version of.