British Stereotypes

Please note that this isn't a serious thread. I'm not ranting at all, or offending you guys who believe in the the classic British stereotype. I'm just bored, and this is the kind of thing I do in my spare time. You wish you were as cool as me.


The British accent. In reality, it's a non-existent accent. It's a complete impossibility to say how many "British accents" there are. I can think of about 20 from the top of my head, and trust me, none of them sound the same. The most stereotyped British accent is the Queen's accent, I'd say, and people with that accent discuss tea and scones, apparently. I loathe tea. It's foul stuff, aye.

Think of it like this: saying that everyone in Britain has the Queen's accent is exactly the same as saying that everyone in America has a Tennessee accent. I mean, according to wikipedia, 2% of British people have the Queen's accent. I don't have the Queen's accent. I sound like a six year old with a learning disability.

How many of you guys think of this when you think of the accents of people in Britain?

Don't get me wrong, there are people in Britain with the stereotyped British accent, but the majority of them sound very different to that. Take me and my Welsh accent. I sound like the most unsophisticated thing with a pulse on this planet. I say don't like dun. For example, I'd say, I dun like tha' instead of I don't like that.

Err... I'm so cool.

This is a pretty decent example of the variations of British accents. Take note of how different the Geordie accent is, for example, compared to the queen's accent. (Warning: Language much later in the video.)

This video just amuses me. It's got a Scouser (Liverpool) accent in it, so it's not completely off topic.

So next time you go to say that British people sound like the Queen, and that British people are immensely sophisticated, just search Russell Brand on Youtube... or watch this.

That's so true. I mean, I can understand almost everything that Becks says, but I can't understand almost anything that Blinky says. xD

Haha, exactly! (I just accidentally unfollowed you). Sorry about that.

XD This made me laugh. I might have watched too much Doctor Who, though it has a couple different accents. Anyway.

(I also added a warning by one of the videos. It had some foul language later on.)

Never trust the Doctor. Oh, and thanks for adding in the warning, Jabber. ^^

I feel like I ought to have an appropriate macro to post in this thread, but it seems like my image folder has turned against me. Darn.

[insert smart intelligent comment about accent variations here]

Bravo! Very well put Skins. I honestly agree with you.. The British accent is very stereotyped some times, but I too get that no accent is the same. Just like no accent is the same in any language. Some people just have a funny quirk to the way they speak, so I believe that all the way around people just speak "differently".

I always am noticing the differing in British accents. Rob and Russel sound extremely different in my opinion. And Gregg Sulkin sounds nothing compared to the two either. People are people. But I do find it slightly pathetic at how intrigued I still am by your style in speaking. My American accent is very vanilla California. (To me anyway) Britts just have this nonchalant way about them that I sadly find so cool.

Anyway, cool post. Just had to comment on this one for some slightly odd reason.

Iz it that he forgot 'bout Essex, tho, blud?

...Yeah, no.

Ahaha. Welsh: Boy-o. Just...boyo. (I tease my mum with this word all the time. She's Welsh. Kind of.) So, high five for being Welsh, even if you're Welsher (yes, that is a word in my mind) than me.

Anywho, must dash - my cup of tea is becoming most chilly.

I always get frustrated when people confuse the accent from my area as being a geordie one :x it doesn't help that whenever there's been a TV show based here, they get people to make us sound like we're from Newcastle. We smoggies sound different! There's no comparison! It just seems that people outside of our little nook of the north can't tell...

Oh, pish posh. All true Englishmen speak like this. (I burst out laughing when I saw that for the first time. xD)

Demeter wrote:That's so true. I mean, I can understand almost everything that Becks says, but I can't understand almost anything that Blinky says. xD

I dun leik whut yew suy.

(I have no idea what accent that was. xD)

Oh my gosh, Blink. That made me laugh. Coffeh! And dawrg.

That is indeed the true way to talk. Hugh Grant manages it very well, though.

Skins! You're British and you don't like tea?! D:

I am muchly surprised. xD

Were not all that dumb, some of us are actually smart. Some.

And I mean us crazy Americans.

Admittedly, I did used to think "Pride and Prejudice". Now I think Skins (the show), or pirates, or that one accent that isn't the Queen's but sounds cool and I don't know what you call it. x3

Haha - 'Skins' the show is set where I live. It's hilarious really as I speak just like they do in the show. I sound like a farmer *laughs at self*

I just love watching British films where all of the characters sound 'posh' or watching American programs that have a British character in them who speaks using a really exaggerated British accent. I'm just thinking *so not true* all the way through