Apparently no one wants to live in the uk anymore....

i like living in the UK its got its problems, but its a nice place, i wanna travel it more than i have....

 

What about the actors on BBC shows? My fave is the guy who plays Jeff on Coupling. I can't remeber his name, I think it's Richard Coyle.

 

thats a welsh accent...im welsh, its much like mine i suppose....

 

i looove the uk i think it's awesome.

 

the u.k aint that bad, it has its good points, like claire said the scenery is almost fairytale, at least in some places. there's no problem finding work in england if your willing to look further than your living room. and on the whole most ppl are friendly enough if you give them a chance. it does howerver have its bad points, but then so does evry country, the government not accuratly representing the views of the nation, wage increaces not reflecting inflation and all that, but thats the same if not worse in most other countries.
the trick is to save in england and spend in asia. thats the best way i can see.

 

Ahhh the Welsh accent eh!!! I like some Welsh accents I'm Welsh too I love the West Country (Sommerset area) accent... I hear more and more of it when I go there, and the Bristolian accent... It's grand. Oh and the Yorkshire accent is grand too

 

you've not got a strong welsh accent tho louise...to be honest its not weak either...

 

What are you sayen Joeeeeeeel?!? I know my Welsh accent isn't a strong one I am really Welsh though! I can speak Welsh fluently and everything The West Wales (where I'm from) accent ain't as strong as the South or North Wales accent

 

Wow. I didn't know that there were so many different accents in such a small country.

 

I am going to travel all over Europe. I will of course go north to Scotland because that is where some of my family is from.

 

Hey I get what you mean about those damn mind-numbing moving programs! How different can 8 programs moving person from A to B really be?

There does seem to be a lot of people wanting to get up a leave though. Personally, I know about 5 individuals who have either moved, bought property or well on their way to immigration. For some, it seems an exciting new life and others perhaps running away or border-line racism. It seems a little like perhaps they are giving up on this country. I'd never say all, we are individuals, there just seems to be a collective consciousness pulling these people away. My view is totally we all live on this planet together, but I hate it when people just roll over and die. No one seems very positive about perhaps making those wrongs right or opening their minds a little more.
I guess us guys who are left behind here will have to pick up the pieces! hehe.

 

Border-line racism? How can a border-line racist leave Britain? And go where? The Arctic? Britain at present is the jewel in the world racist-bastard crown!

 

Explain?!?

 

Eh? Hardly any of them have been mentioned so far! Only 3 in fact.

Let me give you a brief runthrough the main ones.

In England:

Janners from the very south west - Cornwall, Devon etc, Then a bit further up you've got your Wurzels from Bristol, then head east and yuo've got the home counties accent which is basically what English sounds like when spoken properly, there's also the really posh accent which is proper English too but you don't really need to speak like that to sound educated - in fact it just makes you sound like a twat. Along the south east they all more or less speak like that or with some variation of the cockney accent, which is never as strong outside london as it is in london, except in Essex - the county to the north-east of london.

Head a bit further north and you've got the rural accent of Norfolk and Suffolk which sounds not too dissimilar to the Wurzels in the Bristol area although there is a difference. Then head west through Derbyshire and Leicester and there's a the beginnings of the northern accent although it sounds northern to southerners and southern to northerners. Further West is Birmingham - we call them Brummies and that's a very strange accent - probably developed through proximity to the Welsh. North-west of there is the Scousers, in liverpool, probably the most distinct of all the English accents and that accent came about due to a mix with the Irish and northern English accents. Lancashire and Yorkshire have very distinct accents that are different from one another but similar in many ways too, - lancashire is to the east of Merseyside (liverpool), and then there's Yorkshire. Then to the northeeast and the Newcastle area the accent changes significantly again and you get Geordies.

That's just England by the way.

The generic Irish, Welsh and Scottish accents, and even the Generic Northern Irish Accents are all easily distuinguishable to any English speaker - you can also hear the difference between someone from Edinburgh and someone from Glasgow even if you've never been to scotland. However within those countries the accent varies just as much as it does in England - however I don't have the geographical knowledge to tell you which accent comes from where.

These accents are so different that in the case of the more extreme accents it's possible that they might not actually be mutually comprehensible. A Janner and Glaswegian would have a lot of trouble understanding each other.

 

I take it you live in a different Britain to me then? The one I live in is xenophobic and racist. Which one's yours?

 

I am not sure. I am the many times great niece of Bruce the First so I was thinking of visiting the ancestral castle if it is still standing.

Good news guys! I might be coming to London earlier than anticipated. If all works out, I will do an internship my last semester of my senior year in London. That would be Spring 2006.

 

It is even crazier in the States. We have too many different accents for me to even recall.

 

its like that here, accents varie not only from county to county or city to city but also from village to village. here where i am from in sheffield (one of the big citys) the southen part of the city speak totally different from the people in the north. the yorkshire accent people think quite strange. sheffield has its own 'language' & people that come here find it quite hard to understand us, we tend to speak with out putting gaps between words eg, "Oowerrywethenwerryweeissen" = who was he with then
"Purremineer" = put them in here
"Eesezeantadit" = He says he hasn't had it

 

so then what would be proper English, the queen's english?

 

yes, proper english is english that is spoken correctly

for example "would you like milk & sugar in your tea?" that is how it should be said

how i would say it "wud de like milk n sugar in dee tea?

in many films actors tend to speak using the queens english or a london cockney accent, children that have private deucation payed for by their rich parents speak the queens english. the bigest % of people in britain who work hard for their money have an accent depending on where they are from.