Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

[Nonskimmer]

Once, while in Liverpool, I had to ask a woman to repeat a question three times before I finally gave up trying to understand her, and embarrassingly asked her to slow it down a bit.
Her speech was so clipped I didn't have a clue what she wanted. Turns out she was asking about my sweater.

Some of the Newfie accents are a treat to try to understand too. Especially from the northern peninsula.
And even a small province like Nova Scotia has some real doozies. Try Cape Breton sometime, or the south shore.

[Medvedya]

I should add I don't speak in a Bristolian accent - (see the Vicky Pollard clip on the link)

Awight my luvver?

Nah.

[Nonskimmer]

Mine has softened over time, after moving to Halifax. It was never that harsh to begin with, but it was a bit more "east coastery".
My wife says it's a little more pronounced when I drink. I think she's lying.

[lesofprimus]

Do u say Aboot instead of About?

[Medvedya]

To me it sounds like regular Canadian - If I was pushed to describe it myself, that's kind of like a mix between Scottish and the American accents.

Newfie is unique - no question there. Just about the strangest accent ever. Can't imagine what a Labradorian accent sounds like.

[Nonskimmer]

Labradorians are a mix of Newfs and Québecers, so it's strange.
And les, I have been known to say "aboot" on rare occasions.

[lesofprimus]

I bet u have shipmate, I bet u have............

[Nonskimmer]

The first is a musical example of a "typical" Nova Scotian accent.
As you can hear, there's nothing exactly extreme about it. Some folks in the rural areas have more of a twang to their speech than this. (Warning!: it's country!)

The accent in the second one is a little bit more Cape Bretonish, but still decipherable. I couldn't find a decent recording of a good Cape Breton drawl.

[Maestro]

A little story :

During the last "British Holiday" event, I was on duty (alone) in a room to watch over skies to make sure no one try to steal some of them. Around 9 A.M., a British group (well, all groups using that room were British) entered to take their stuff and a (approx.) 12 years old girl looked at me and said :

Did you get X ? (Where X is a word that I did not understand.)

I had to make her repeat three times before we both gave up. Then I thought to myself and, 5 minutes later, I lighten up. She was asking me : "Did you get bored ?"

The British accent is a nice one and I can (generally) understand it quite well. But this time, I don't know where she was from exactly in Britain, but I didn't get it because of her accent. She was pronouncing "bored" as "boor". For a little French-Canadian like me it was hard to light-up on that one.

To come back on the aboot/about thing, I saw a show on CBC a while back about the difference between American/British/Canadian and Young/Old accents.

For exemple, young (less than 35 years old) Canadians pronounce :

About as : Aboot
News as : Nooz

While older Canadians (over 60) pronounce :

About as : Ab-out
News as : Nyews

Americans pronounce :

About as : Abaout

British pronounce :

Drop Zone as : Drohp Zaone
Layer as : Lay-her

[GermansRGeniuses]

I'm not gonna read all of this, but I do want to see the movie for two reasons.

#1. It looks cool!

#2. It's an excuse for a date-ish kinda thing.

[GermansRGeniuses]

While we're one about Englundian, is "jail" (prison, penitentiary, etc.) still spelled "gaol"?

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Woulnd surprise me the Canadians and British speak wierd english!

Just kidding guys.

[plan_D]

I take offence! I challenge you to a duel!

Oh wait, no I don't that was RGs forté..

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

LOL

[Medvedya]

Gaol? It can be, but it would be considered a Victorian term.