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
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Keevarou 17

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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DelphiCat 17

If i were to guess, i'd say OP was putting on (deliberately or otherwise) an Americanised 'British' accent or a bizarrely posh one for his region. (I have met one or two people who do this subconsciously when trying to 'impress') P.s. There is no such thing as a 'British accent'. Seriously.

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Kyp_kingofhearts 12

Didn't someone already post an FML like this?

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Pugs_not_drugs 9

okay people you cannot have a british accent, you can have an English accent, Scottish accent, Welsh accent or Irish accent they are all different

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Parris83 9

*Northern Irish, if any of us do have to be included. Republic of Ireland is not part of Britain.

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DelphiCat 17

Not to be pedantic, but geographically speaking it is the second largest of the British Isles.

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Parris83 9

Unfortunately yes, geographically you can say Ireland is part of the British isles. But in no other way can you say the Republic of Ireland is part of Britain / uk. I certainly wouldn't fancy your chances if you decided to argue that one while in R.Ireland or speaking with an Irish person.

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DelphiCat 17

Never said that made it part of the UK. It is still technically part of Britain though, as the term refers to the island group. Great Britain is the largest landmass of the Island group, and also contains the majority of the United Kingdom. I would love to point it out to some people in Eire, for ***** and giggles.

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Parris83 9

There's no such thing as a british accent.

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chuka81 27

Apparently Americans dig the Briish accent

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EandL_fml 2

British English is a broad term used to mean ALL English spoken in Britain aka Great Britain (the UK), so yes there is such thing as a British Accent. There are many different kinds of British accents just like we use the term American accent meaning all the different accents spoken in the US. I love how people try to sound all smart but really all you need is a bit of common sense and an understanding of what the term British means. OP- maybe you have been around too many welsh??

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Parris83 9

I, for one, am not trying to "sound smart", or to piss anyone off for that matter. The British accent thing is simply annoying to me, I can't understand why people can't be more specific. It is made up of different countries. If I was talking about a Welsh person, for example, I would say "I love their Welsh accent" etc, not "I love their British accent".

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DelphiCat 17

The problem with the term 'British accent' is that it is invariably employed by Americans, who say it, when what they mean is usually 'upper-class English accent'. One cannot have a 'British accent' because that would require the island to be made up of one country, not three. COUNTRIES get to have their own accents.

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diggyuk 1

No they don't. Regions have their own accent. A person from London sounds nothing like someone from Liverpool even though it's the same country

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DelphiCat 17

No, they dont. But in the same way everyone from the USA has an 'American' accent, everyone from England has an 'English' accent. If people from Canada have Canadian accents not American ones, people from Scotland have Scottish accents not 'British' ones.

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scott82 5

Maybe you have a low IQ and battle to speak English properly

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diggyuk 1

You can have a British accent.. it's the accent of someone who comes from Britain. That incorporates Cockney, Irish, Pikey, Scouse, Manc, Geordie, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Bristolian etc etc

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AssassinBug 15

Trade in your British for Yiddish.

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Eemmaatt33 12

On the other hand, I keep being asked if I'm British due to my "accent" but I'm Australian. Every time, I have to explain that it's not an accent but actually a speech impediment. Sigh.

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