Accent Aficionado Prints

"I don't mind the voices themselves, Doctor. It's the Jersey accents that are driving me nuts."

Tug of pronunciation: 'We say to-may-to...' 'We say to-mah-to...'

'Where's the nearest bar?' 'Oh, they's been hibernatin' fer weeks!'

'Aye up. . . I've has an Ebygum mail.'

"Just because the preacher is from Alabama doesn't mean he's speaking in tongues."

"I'm droppin' all my 'G's for a while."

Pigs talking with strong accents

Newcastle United: 'Can you have Mr Souness's Geordie inerpreter sent into the boardroom.'

'We're out of earshot now, so you can drop the phoney, Oxbridge accent.'

"Sure I can help him: I specialize in pirate-talk..."

"Would you please speak more slowly and with a different accent?"

"Is that a Mid-Atlantic accent?"

"It is our opinion that the practice of having actors speak in fake French, Italian and German accents should be ended at once."

"Oh I'd love to learn a new language. Or at least a new accent."

'Birmingham AY to ZEE'

'You must be the angel of the north.'

'I shouldn't worry, apparently it's a very common complaint within your demographic.'

'Say! - is that a muffled Geordie accent I hear?'

Man picking up an H for a lady who drops her Hs

'Now, once more with feeling.'

"'Cheers'? 'Lorry'? 'Jumper'? You can talk, boy? And you're British??"

"Once I'm away from Maine, I stop saying ay-yah."

A northern cow

"Dad, seriously — you don’t have to do the accent."

"If she's from Kansas, why doesn't she have a Midwestern accent?"

"Of course I'm not French: I just put on the accent to talk to the ladies..."

"Actually, we wuz both takin' English classes down at the rec center!"

"He's so posh...!"

"Fuggedaboutit!"

"He's a Mainer."

"I can't seem t place your accent. Are you from Bristol, Liverpool or the strategy department of an advertising agency?"

"I hate Boston Terriers."

Welcome to California. You may begin your Schwarzenegger imitation now

Meanwhile in Yorkshire

"You say lar-tay, I say latt-ay, let's call the whole thing off."