Lilted voice

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Sometimes I think about a conversation that I had and I chuckle to myself. I was on a course at the time and the lecturer said I had an Irish lilt and he asked me where abouts in Ireland I was from.

I blinked for a moment and said 'Erm, I'm not from Ireland, I grew up in the North of England'.

'Oh'.





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I think I went to Ireland once as a kid but I was very young and have basically no memory of it. Certainly didn't have the time to pick up an accent.

The lecturer himself was from the south of England.

I do agree though that my voice has a steady rise and fall rhythm to it. I've been told it's calming. Hopefully it's not boring.

Interesting! I’ve been told that I have a lilting voice, too. I’m from Pennsylvania. I wouldn’t say that a lilt is considered part of the accent here. Well, not that I’m aware of, anyway.

I must admit I'm better at distinguishing between northern accents than I am southern ones

I've been mistaken for Yorkshire on many occasions but it's usually by Scottish people

It's sometimes said that a good way to spot a Yorkshire person is to get him or her to count to five. The sound of 'one', 'two' and 'four' in many Yorkshire accents is very distinctive.

Is that when he's counting his money

For some reason, I thought the YouTube clip was going to be a clip of the OP's voice and then it turned out to be a fail sound.

she tricked us

I'm gonna get her after school

She knows I'm playing

I live in Atlantic Canada where everybody who was born here supposedly sounds Irish or Scottish, but I don't have much of an accent at all.

I also don't pronounce "sorry" the way other Canadians do, I say it the American way. I've tried saying it the Canadian way and it just doesn't sound right or natural to me. But i feel embarrassed when I say sorry in public. I worry others will think I'm American and will be nasty to me.

When people have asked me "Where are you from?", I know they must think I'm from somewhere other than Nova Scotia.

I've been on r/Ask A Canadian, and it looks like some Americans don't even know many people up here even speak English. Or that we're a diverse country and not everyone up here is white.

The word sorry doesn't sound like one that has different pronunciations. Here, we just pronounce it as it's spelt.