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Comment by June Kowalczyk on June 16, 2012 at 2:09pm

I still use Scottish colloquialisms. Wee thing...tupnee hoot, hell's teeth, whisht ( be quite ).  My kids just shake there head.

Comment by Tracy Deadman on June 16, 2012 at 10:52am

One of my fav films Linda - love Hugh Grant. She's just hilarious and can be forgiven her accent, it's just like the book.

Comment by Linda Wolff on June 16, 2012 at 10:50am

June, my husband George does the very same thing. Once his uncles come over here for a visit and they all get to talking a reminiscing, his German takes on a whole new element! My great grandmother who came from England lived right next door to my Dad and his family and to this day, my dad says things that have just a slight GB accent due to her being so close, and them living in the wilds of Montana where NOBODY lived back then. lol

Comment by Linda Wolff on June 16, 2012 at 10:41am

It's really puzzling, isn't it, Tracy. The guy that played the lead roll in House,  Hugh Laurie, had a magnificent American accent, but his British accent actually has soooo much more appeal! Why mess with a good thing?! Same with Simon Baker of the Mentalist. Has the most engaging Australian accent! Why try to be American? You guys probably think the same thing about Renee Zelwinger and her Brigit Jones roll. I know I do! (Although, I still laugh every time I watch that movie)

Comment by June Kowalczyk on June 16, 2012 at 10:33am

Funny about accents. My Mom & my friend's Mom both came from Scotland. Hers from Glasgow, mine from Stranraer. Friend's Moms accent was so broad, no one could understand her. I had no trouble understanding her. My Moms had little to none accent. She had her wee sayings. My Aunts came over for a visit, her sisters. One from Scotland, one just outside London. Whoa, all of a sudden this broad brogish accent comes out of my Mom!!! I couldn't believe my ears!! We were all teasing her. She just naturally lapsed into the way she had spoke when she lived their.
When my Aunts left, so did the brogue. To others she had a very, very slight accent, but nothing distinguishable.

Comment by Tracy Deadman on June 16, 2012 at 10:11am

When we did our three week road trip in the SW states we kept being asked if we were Australian? I dont think they sound too similar. It's funny Linda, I was catching up on some chic flicks the other night while making my butterflies & watched Letters to Juliet and there was a guy playing a very stiff spoken Englishman (Vanessa Redgraves grandson in film) I recognised him from Aussie soap Home & Away and thought.......why choose someone with such a stuffy overdone accent. Loved the film - but he was as wooden as a plank lol.

Comment by Linda Wolff on June 16, 2012 at 9:24am

Yup, you do, Goreti! I had a good friend named Debbie Jones who came from your neck of the woods back when my husband was in the military, and I loved to hear her talk! She hardly ever used any 'r' in words that had an r in it, and we used to tease her. Instead of 'park your car in Harvard yard, she would say: pauk you ca in Havad yaud. Definitely a very strong accent

Comment by Goreti on June 16, 2012 at 9:11am

I love to hear different accents.  A couple of years ago, a few of us at work won a trip to the Mall of America (only good thing about this sales job was the contests).  As we went to the different stores, my coworker & I were chatting.  So many of the sales clerks asked us where we were from because we had "such cute accents".  We looked at each other & said "we have accents?".  lol  I guess we have the New England accent.

Comment by Linda Wolff on June 16, 2012 at 7:31am

What really gets me, Katy, are the British actors and actresses that are in 'our' TV programs and they take on an American accent for the part they play. Same with the Aussies. I can never figure that one out, because for the most part, we over here love to hear your accents, so why take such pains to sound like Americans?

Comment by Katy Nott on June 16, 2012 at 7:02am

We aim to please Linda.  I remember when I went to Atlanta for some training with a US company I was employed by in the UK, the women all kept saying how 'cute' I was!  Cute is something I have never been called in my life before y'all!

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