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Earlier today, a bunch of my internet friends were passing around this meme where you record yourself saying a list of words and then giggle at each other’s accents and occasionally beg each other to read bedtime stories with lovely voices.
Here’s the list (we do this relatively frequently, so if the list seems a bit random or incomplete, this is why): http://tinypaste.com/022b8888
And here’s my recording of it: http://vocaroo.com/?media=vzPHKJZDN5r93Q6Rn
My accent has changed SO much since I moved. From very early on, I noticed a change in the cadence of my speech, and later, I became aware of making very british choices in my vocabulary. And lately, after over four years here, my accent is changing, too. It’s some funky hybrid of Chicago, Southern Indiana and Northern England. I get accused by friends in the states of having a fake british accent but am still stopped often here to talk about my strange foreign accent.
I have all my dictionaries set to British English now, too, so my spelling is slowly changing also. I don’t expect that I will ever say H as “hayche”, though. That’d be a stretch.
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stannate said:
Do you say “erbs” or “herbs?”
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cfim60a2 said:
Hello, Aimee.
It is nice to “hear” your voice again. As I go to You Tube, and listen to you speaking there, the change is astounding.
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sistacrumpet said:
Everyone in the states can’t believe I have more of a Midwestern accent since I have been in the UK. Go figure.
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