I've seen Americans comment "bro is speaking English Premium" under videos from English Youtubers
Which british accent, though? Do they respond the same to Northern English? Scottish? Northern Irish?
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Can I trade them for groceries?
Depends on which accent.
Many yanks don't tend to think of brummie or scouse...
Why go with two English accents and not Irish and Scottish?
My apologies in advance to the good people of Birmingham but it is well documented that the accent is associated with low intelligence.
As someone living not far from Brum, I concur. Brummies are thick.
Fair point.
Because Americans tend to have positive views of scottish accents. I picked the two most famous examples of accents generally viewed somewhat negatively.
Because it says British? Ireland isn't British
Is Ireland one of the British Isles?
Why can't England be part of the Irish Isles?
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Assuming “British” is being used colloquially, as it often is, to describe someone or something from the UK, then there are Irish accents in the UK. The island of Ireland contains Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK. People from Northern Ireland have Irish accents. Try telling Nadine Coyle she doesn’t have an Irish accent.
Interesting take. Try telling Nadine Coyle she has a British accent?
That’s fair. It’s not like the whole thing around Northern Ireland and Britain isn’t without its complications and controversies, to understate it massively. But that applies just as much to saying that people from Northern Ireland aren’t British as much as it does to saying they *are *.
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Anecdotal..
British gal is visiting New York. Loves it and makes plenty of friends. She learns that if she has a job offer she can almost certainly get permission to stay. Goes to an employment agency and gets an interview the same day. Hired to a prestigious firm almost immediately. They tell her they love her classy British accent. In the UK she was lower middle class.
edit = silly me. I forgot that 'middle class' means different things.
At home, she would be a barmaid at the local.
In NYC she was a receptionist in a law firm on Madison Avenue.
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It does, but I once met a Mancunian who sounded, in his own words, common as muck and rough as fuck to a fellow brit, but in the states was treated like Shakespeare
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Lenny Bruce said "Thank God Einstein came from Germany! If he'd told people about the Theory of Relativity in a Georgia accent they'd have laughed him out of the college."
This is true- am British, lived in America. Also good for dating
Isn't that already how it works in the UK, for RP? Which is probably the "British accent" that most non-Brits are thinking of, anyway.
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Well, if we're actually talking TX here, wouldn't that just about put you into Mensa territory - relatively speaking, of course?
I'm pretty sure that doesn't apply to someone who speaks heavy Brummie or Scouse.