How Americans Sound To British People

February 11, 2012 at 1:21 am

Kylie Sturgess

Thanks to Charlotte for this find!

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6 Responses to “How Americans Sound To British People”

nichrome says:

February 11, 2012 at 2:13 am

Americans don’t use their forks like that

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nichrome says:

February 11, 2012 at 2:19 am

And this one is also worth a look (with a good song): What American English sounds like to non-English speakers

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Chris Hallquist says:

February 11, 2012 at 4:10 pm

So weird. Even with the gibberish, it doesn’t actually sound that odd to me.

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I amafreeman says:

February 12, 2012 at 1:24 am

Americans sound like that to me as well.

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sailor1031 says:

February 12, 2012 at 10:11 am

That’s how brits sound to me. I’ve been asking NPR to provide subtitles to Downton Abbey since I can’t understand a word of it!

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Vikram says:

March 14, 2012 at 4:07 pm

As a Canadian, I find this quite amusing. Our accents are somewhere between British and American, and though they’re closer to the latter, we can definitely tell an American accent when we hear one. (Freud called it the “narcissism of minor differences” — the Scotch know they’re not Irish, Indians know they’re not Pakistani, and Canadians know they’re not American.) Though the pronunciation sounds American-ish, here, (albeit with some vowel sounds that aren’t in American English) the intonation and the mannerisms definitely seem British — particularly the way they’re using their cutlery. (Americans and Canadians keep switching hands, using the dominant hand for both cutting with the knife and lifting with the fork, while Europeans, as I understand it, tend to use the weaker hand for lifting and the stronger for cutting.)

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