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By Anonymous - 19/02/2013 18:53 - United Kingdom - Birkenhead

Today, for the second time this week, I was asked to stop putting on such an obviously fake "British" accent. I am British and have lived here all my life. FML
I agree, your life sucks 38 231
You deserved it 3 069

Same thing different taste

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Tsk tsk, some people, just tell them straight that you are indeed British and such. Not your fault that you talk the way you do, some people like to notice the smallest things. I hope you are not self conscious about the way you talk.. Good thing it was not worse though, they could have commented the way you walk or something Or the way you breathe

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The person who told you that probably isn't British because he "would of" known you are british. Takes one to know one.

he lives in England, im pretty sure most of them were

53, The person/people telling him everything may be someone who recently moved to England. Or they may just not know that "northern" british people have different accents than "southern" british people.

Phoebe_Buffay 14

If I read the FML correctly, OP says that they have lived where they currently live all their life. :)

CharresBarkrey 15

I'm confused as to why "would of," is in quotes. Aside from it being completely incorrect, and meaning nothing in the English language.

@79 Here in London, you're more likely to hear someone say "would of" than "would have". Was trying to make a joke, but I guess nobody got it. Also, it's full of different races so sometimes you don't hear a proper British accent.... *sigh*

Tali147 16

People's obsessions with spotting fake accents is annoying. Not everyone talks the same. Even in the same country there are variations of accents.

Except Canadians. Thats more like a lack of an accent.

TheDrifter 23

Oh, Canadians have accents. Go stateside with a Canadian flag on your luggage and it's almost guaranteed someone will all you to say "out and about". Also Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan have notably different accents.

I don't even understand the "out and about" thing. I've heard americans say it and it sounds the same.

TheDrifter 23

To folks with a southern accent, or if the speaker has a Quebecois or territorial accent, it sounds like oot and aboot. I travel too much, even I notice it now. If you want to mess with Yankees, call everyone hoser and use eh where punctuation would go if you were writing.

@18 I live in Canada, and I can hear that Canadians do have an accent, very different from other countries

I'm Canadian and enjoy saying 'opt and aboot' a lot! I was even told once that I sounded British. I didn't think my accent sounded like that! Lol

aboot sounds like it might sound Scottish...

don't feel bad, I have a irish accent and people think its fake because they've never really heard a real one because im in canada

BellaBelle_fml 23

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BellaBelle_fml 23

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That was quite a mouthful. #17, I do believe this person up here seems to have you in high regards

Imagine therestof Canada when they hear my Newfie accient then. An Irish,British, french accent gets looked at as well.

kittycat1597 10

Do not worry OP, I have the same problem. I was born in Cheshire also, and when I lived in America people blamed me for "faking my accent."

"blamed you for"... or "accused you of"? #grammarnazi

BellaBelle_fml 23

Blamed and accused can often be used interchangeably. In most cases either one can be used correctly. It does look a bit odd in this circumstance, however, it is still correct. Both mean that someone is holding you responsible for something.

I know how you feel. I'm Trinidadian American and Americans think I have a fake american accent while trinidadians think I have a fake Caribbean accent. Neither of my cultures accepts me.

I know how you feel. I'm Trinidadian American and Americans think I have a fake american accent while trinidadians think I have a fake Caribbean accent. Neither of my cultures accepts me.

I think you and my dad would get along. Americans think he sounds British, but British people think he sounds American. Poor guy doesn't fit in anywhere. :'(

Why would someone even want to talk like an american? I live in the U.S. and don't want to because the people are rude, fat, and stupid.

BellaBelle_fml 23

^ So you are rude, fat, and stupid as well then? You do realize that you have lopped yourself right in there with the very people that you seem to so passionately despise by default, right? Makes sense.

KiddNYC1O 20

62- Then get the **** out. I rather be fat, rude and stupid than ignorant as ****.

#25, which American accent? Midwest, New England, Southern, Californian, Texan? (Just to name a few.)

CharresBarkrey 15

There's a Californian accent? Huh. I've never noticed. I'm from Arizona, and I've been told we have accents as well, but I can't figure out what we do differently.

80- I moved to Oregon from Arizona and I noticed the accent is pretty much the same but I say anything with "ire" in it differently. Such as tire, liar, etc. It's more..cowboyish haha. They also pronounce things a lot clearer here.

72 The "joy-zee" accent is interesting enough.

65, I am rude, not necessarily fat, not skinny though. And if I were stupid I probably wouldn't have noticed the stupidity of those around me. And I didn't mean to "include myself" with that. I intend to state the fact of basically the majority. Even though, I will admit that I said "all".

^actually, I didn't say "all". I said "the people". I didn't specify which people. So while I admit that it could be taken as the way you thought, I intended it as most.

CharresBarkrey 15

You can be stupid and still think others are stupid. Just saying.

^yes, but it makes them even more stupid than myself, so therefore I am still smarter than the other people.

CookieLovesBoo 16

People just want to be rude , they hear the fake one so often that they can't even tell when there's a real one