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[–] 57 points 1 year ago (28 children)

Depends on which accent.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    As far as Americans are concerned, there are only 2 British accents:

    Villain or wise mentor: Queen's English

    Henchman or comic relief: Cockney

    I would really like to see a movie about a team up between detectives with Yorkshire, Brummie and Scouse accents; working cross regionally to bring down a gang of criminals. Hardcoded subtitles for the Americans please.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Many yanks don't tend to think of brummie or scouse...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Why go with two English accents and not Irish and Scottish?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My apologies in advance to the good people of Birmingham but it is well documented that the accent is associated with low intelligence.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Because it says British? Ireland isn't British

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Assuming “British” is being used colloquially, as it often is, to describe someone or something from the UK, then there are Irish accents in the UK. The island of Ireland contains Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK. People from Northern Ireland have Irish accents. Try telling Nadine Coyle she doesn’t have an Irish accent.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Interesting take. Try telling Nadine Coyle she has a British accent?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That’s fair. It’s not like the whole thing around Northern Ireland and Britain isn’t without its complications and controversies, to understate it massively. But that applies just as much to saying that people from Northern Ireland aren’t British as much as it does to saying they *are *.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is Ireland one of the British Isles?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Given that the people of Ireland reject that name, it's a very British thing to deadname them.

    Serious answer - no Prythonic speakers lived in Ireland, so there is no proper basis for the name beyond people quoting a Greek who had never been there. It fell out of use for a millennium and was revised by a Welshman who spoke to angels as a way to erase the separate identities of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. His reasoning was that the King of the Britons, Arthur, had conquered Ireland (if he ever existed, he did not). I am speaking of John Dee who also coined the terms British Empire (it stuck) and British Ocean (it decidedly did not).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    To expand on Arthur, if he ever was a real person his first historical record was written 300 years after his supposed death and it claims he was a war leader, not a king, fighting the Saxons to ultimately no avail, though the Historia Brittonnum makes sure to assure the reader that's only because the Saxons kept bringing in new troops and not because Arthur lost any battles.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Anecdotal..

    British gal is visiting New York. Loves it and makes plenty of friends. She learns that if she has a job offer she can almost certainly get permission to stay. Goes to an employment agency and gets an interview the same day. Hired to a prestigious firm almost immediately. They tell her they love her classy British accent. In the UK she was lower middle class.

    edit = silly me. I forgot that 'middle class' means different things.

    At home, she would be a barmaid at the local.

    In NYC she was a receptionist in a law firm on Madison Avenue.

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