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SPOILER!!: Quotes from peoples
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Originally Posted by Silver Ninja
*posts again* well it has been over a year
So over the last 8 months Becks and I have been doing skyping and I've started picking up on British speak and accents. Between her and Lu trying to teach me to speak 'proper' and spell things properly (like flavour, colour, rumour) I've started taking on a British accent
Is it just me and Minnesota or is Dragon sounded with a long A? or even 'bag'? we still argue over that xD
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Originally Posted by Tegz
Now I'm sitting here going AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah EHHHHHH EAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH trying to work out what your idea of a long A sounds like lmao. Like the A in BAR or the A in BAD? hehe.
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Originally Posted by ForeverYours
It's like baaaaath and paaaath. Instead of bAth and pAth, which have sharp sounds (and are pronounced like the 'little letter' a).
That was a poor description.
I'm British and have an almost posh accent, courtesy on my dad who's from London.
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Originally Posted by Silver Ninja
LULZ well I say the A as in Grape or Staple not like bath or path
Oh Merlin, what did I just walk into?
Liz can now say some words properly (according to me) and has started using those sounds in normal conversation, but again, with British accents, things can sound different. If you're from the north, certain sounds are different and if you're from the south, it's very varied. I'm a sort of mix between the two, but my accent changes to a northern one when I speak to a northerner.
And Liz? Dragon. It's dragon, short a. Not draygon, long a. Same with bag.
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A draygon! That's cute One of my fave resources for seeing some differences in accents and dialects in the UK is here, because I can hear where regional accents have effected how we sound in my country, because of the people that settled here and everything.
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Liz, I think it's just you and Minn. because most of the people I've ever spoken to say 'a' in dragon like the 'a' in bag...... and I'm from the South which has notoriously bad pronunciation all around
That said, I sound like I'm from Boston, oddly enough *shug*
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I was born in Liverpool and live right next to it, my whole family have scouse accents, so you would expect me to have one too, but honestly, I sound really posh, it's odd considering where I was born, and the fact I have never been anywhere else where people have my accent, I sound like I am from the south of England rather than the north.
My accents is a pretty weird and confusing one. People always ask me if I am from England because I do definitely sound British. However I grew up watching American shows so for some reason I can pronounce some word only in an American accent.
To top it all off, I am Dutch and since so many words are written the exact same way in Dutch and English, I sometimes have a very Dutch accent for those words..
I was born in Ireland, but moved away when I was 4. I was of course talking when I moved so I still have that accent going, but I have also picked up the accent of the Natives from Greenland. They sound kind of Danish even when they speak there own language of Greenlandic which I don't understand.
Scottish! and being from the North-East of Scotland it's one of the most confusing for outsiders to understand. It's almost like another language sometimes
What accent do you have? 
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æ vs ɐ vs a vs ä vs ɛ and so forth
not like bath or path 
One of my fave resources for seeing some differences in accents and dialects in the UK is 
