When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?

Re:When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? by stan_rogers on Monday January 28, 2013 @06:13PM (#5131362)

David Mitchell's character in this "Dying Wish" sketch from The Mitchell and Webb Look has a very good Welsh accent as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-BpLgVxLRY (It's not David's own, which is very much RP, but it's entirely believable.)

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Re:When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? by JonnieCache on Monday January 28, 2013 @06:37PM (#5131461)

Witness Ross Noble's stupendous sunderland accent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nHg6hDiRQQ

Sunderland is about an hour away from newcastle.

EDIT: Oh gosh and there are some amazing clips from a local radio phone in show in norwich here: https://soundcloud.com/voices-of-norfolk/sets/radio-norfolk-...

This lady is particularly endearing: https://soundcloud.com/voices-of-norfolk/nancy?in=voices-of-...

Here's a recording of market traders in london with cockney accents, and some jamaican I think: https://soundcloud.com/london-sound-survey/brick-lane-market...

That soundcloud account is full of field recordings taken in london, lots have distinctive voices in them: https://soundcloud.com/london-sound-survey/wembley-cheapjack...

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Re:When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? by laumars on Monday January 28, 2013 @06:54PM (#5131522)

I'd forgotten how random Ross Noble is.

    > Sunderland is about an hour away from newcastle.

Not even that. Newcastle and Middlesbrough are about an hour apart (just down the A19); Sunderland is less than half the distance away.

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Re:When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? by laumars on Monday January 28, 2013 @06:32PM (#5131441)

There's also Gavin And Stacy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AZxRBMECQU (I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner!)

For the non-English readers, the two girls are Welsh, the two boys are from (if I recall correctly) south Essex (a suburb north of London).

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