Current Year 13 thread Mark I (2014-2015)

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0HldooMXrsN

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Original post by O133

This by the way is a properly academic passage to compare accents:

Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.

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Original post by Obiejess

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0HldooMXrsN

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1lrDgWW7tQX

My pronunciation of "train station" is a bit weird in this.

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Original post by O133

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1lrDgWW7tQX

My pronunciation of "train station" is a bit weird in this.

The main difference is 'ask'. Train station was dodgy in mine too.

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Original post by Obiejess

The main difference is 'ask'. Train station was dodgy in mine too.

For some reason I noticed a big difference in "plastic snake" too. :confused:

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Original post by O133

For some reason I noticed a big difference in "plastic snake" too. :confused:

I can't really notice one. How odd.

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username738914

OK, so my accent is a culmination of going to american international schools for all of elementary school and attending a Scottish state school for all of secondary school. To be honest, I'm a chameleon when I speak - I mirror the accent of whoever talks to me.

Here's my standard accent:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Od70EE8Nmc

And my more British one:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s097Eb5IXzXB

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Original post by Bude8

real

kids these days man

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Original post by O133

You certainly sound more northern in that one.

*just caught up on thread*

Just been listening to all these voice recordings, and I can't believe you think Obiejess sounds northern - she sounds very very southern/well spoken compared to me and I don't even live that far from Nottingham!!

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s0HldooMXrsN

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Original post by Obiejess

your accent is so lovely :colondollar:

genuinely very jealous hahahah, I sound very brummie around family and very common around friends :facepalm:

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Original post by rachelc142

your accent is so lovely :colondollar:

genuinely very jealous hahahah, I sound very brummie around family and very common around friends :facepalm:

Aww thankyou.

I love brummie, second only to scouse. I think the reason I he thinks I sound northern is because of the whole ask/arsk thing :biggrin:

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Original post by Obiejess

Aww thankyou.

I love brummie, second only to scouse. I think the reason I he thinks I sound northern is because of the whole ask/arsk thing :biggrin:

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I think generally I don't sound very brummie but when I went to my manchester interview was talking to some undergrads and I said "I live near birmingham" and they all said simultaneously "yeah you can tell" I was so upset hahah :')

Yeah probably - I have a friend in liverpool who thinks I sound "dead posh" and go away every august bank holiday to a cricket tour which is in between cambridge and ipswich and they all say I sound northern because of the "glarrss" thing haha XD

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Original post by rachelc142

I think generally I don't sound very brummie but when I went to my manchester interview was talking to some undergrads and I said "I live near birmingham" and they all said simultaneously "yeah you can tell" I was so upset hahah :')

Yeah probably - I have a friend in liverpool who thinks I sound "dead posh" and go away every august bank holiday to a cricket tour which is in between cambridge and ipswich and they all say I sound northern because of the "glarrss" thing haha XD

Luckily, I say glass (as in hassle) - not glars.

The joys of living in the midlands. Southerners call me a Northerner and Northerners call me a Southerner.

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Original post by Obiejess

Luckily, I say glass (as in hassle) - not glars.

The joys of living in the midlands. Southerners call me a Northerner and Northerners call me a Southerner.

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It's definitely the true mark of a Midlander!

My one concern about going to uni - people thinking im "posh"!!!

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Original post by rachelc142

It's definitely the true mark of a Midlander!

My one concern about going to uni - people thinking im "posh"!!!

Which unis are you applying for?

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