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Akima:

--- Quote from: jwhouk on 19 Aug 2018, 15:03 ---Bahstan accents are pretty much what you're hearing at times in QC - "Let's go dahn to tha Hahvahd Yahd and get some wicked pissah with some clam chowdah."
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Hey! I resemble that remaahk!

Ignominious:

--- Quote from: War Sparrow on 19 Aug 2018, 06:36 ---In my experience (Canada), English people all get very thick, London or Buckinghamshire accents in jokes, or whatever the accents of Monty Python are. Scots and Irish people get stereotypical accents, and no one makes fun of the Welsh.

I was astonished when I learned that accents across England, and really most other countries, vary wildly. In Canada, there's the generic accent of most of us, some very slight regional inflections in small pockets throughout, and the Maritimes. I think most non-Canadians are most familiar with the Maritimer accent.

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I think the Cockney or Home Counties accent is the default perception for most non-English people. Outside of that small corner of the country I don't think there's any real understanding as to why an accent is different other than it is. To English people this is confusing because the difference is often very stark to us. We can pin most accents down to a tight region if not a specific county. More so we can get even more specific in our own local area. For instance I can tell the four different Yorkshire accents (South, West, North and East) and in South Yorkshire I can generally discern between the four main districts.

If you were to ask what the accents for people like Sean Bean, Ian McShane or Joseph Gilgun are then I suspect few outside the UK would be more specific than "northern".

I remember when we were in Manitoba, my partner and I were amusing ourselves with comedy northern accents with associated TV in jokes while playing pool. Someone asked where we were from and were not convinced that we had been speaking in any kind of English accent.

As for the Welsh, I doubt many could spot it.

Dandi Andi:
To the best of my knowledge, Welsh is kind of sing-song with elongated vowels and soft R's. I could probably pick it out of a line up if you said "Here are three accents, one of them is Welsh." but not if I heard it without context.

Ignominious:
There's 5-ish different Welsh accents. Two from the Marches and three from the coast. The one non-Brits are most familiar with is the one that stretches from Cardiff to Fishguard. Typified by the likes of Rob Brydon and Anthony Hopkins. Thats the lilting "sing-song" one you refer to.

However, Iwan Rheon is from that area and sounds more like Rhys Ifans who hails from Ruthin.

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