Words/phrases that are fun to pronounce in regional accents...

I'm sure we've done something like this before, but I can't find the thread.

I vaguely remember throwing up a lung when on said thread someone mentioned "pocahontas" being especially funny when pronounced in a Geordie accent. Also - "synthesiser" and many other four-syllable words.

My mate just texted to tell me he overheard a South African client requesting that a product be "hermetically sealed", which also reminded me that for days after watching District 9, I couldn't stop going around saying "de machines are spa-ringing into laf" - which isn't even a phrase in the film, it's just fun to say with an SA accent.

When people are asked to imitate a Brummie accent, the typical utternace is something about "mug'o'tea" or "beans'n'bacon".

What else is there?

Words that sound graeat in geordie

i've been looking for that everywhere dammit

I just type "Poinsetta" into the search box, clicked "Posts", voila.

Pittsburgh Stillers.

i had no such luck with "pocahontas"

When I lived and worked in Brum it was a fave to get local colleagues to ask for "a packet of Roast Beef Monster Munch". I also treasure the memory of a youth berating one of my colleagues with the choice epithet "you can go and fuck your mother, you bald bastard" delivered in pure brummie.

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We had a northern Irish lecturer at college who had to stop and explain what he was saying as no-one recognised the word 'error' in NI accent.

i had two different west african physics professors in undergrad and always lolled to myself at thin films = tin pims and the torque = de tok

i guess those aren't really regional except that i think they were both pretty much "native" english speakers

Can't beat a Mancunian 'soz ard'

"next exit" is pronounced "neggzeggzit" in the rhodeislanish dialect fwiw

"Moisturizer" is fun to say like you are Moe of the Three Stooges, whatever accent that is.

"I got a wed wagon"

I always got a kick out of a Baltimore/Eastern Shore/Mid-Atlantican wills and trust professor saying "probate code."

I used to work with a girl from Birmingham ("she's just had an a-borr-tion!"... ahem), and this once she was heading out and she turned to me and held up a can of pop. She said "D'you want this?" when I asked what it was she replied in full-on Brummie: "Blackcurrant Tango". Rolled r's in blackcurrant, and then "Tan-gaow". It has stayed with me ever since.

Pittsburgh. The word "count" sounds like "cunt"

'sauce' is fun to say in any accent

nothing funny about spina bifida until you hear it pronounced in a South Staffs accent.

What on earth does a South Staffs accent sound like?

Not far off Brummie.

Pittsburgh. The word "count" sounds like "cunt"
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 21:10 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"current" in scottish

'Girl' and 'world' in a Scottish accent are often remarked upon IME.

Love saying "white" in a deep south accent so it comes out "whaaht" or "hwaaht"

funny, i hear they like saying "white" too.

I was gonna say, for people who care so much about the word they sure pronounce it funny

heh.

people say there's no LA/OC accent, but there is a thing where young women (don't hear it as much w/ men) will go "think yo" for "thank you."