Accent Aficionados Gifts

"I detect an accent — one that's down on its luck and has had too much to drink."

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'This is my cousin Richard, he's from England, Joy.' 'I could tell you were British as soon as you started talking.' 'I could tell as soon as he opened his mouth.'

"We're almost to Britain, Captain. Might be a good time to practice your silent ARRRRs."

Pirate boy reciting the alphabet

Changing Minds

"Say 'eh.'"

"At some point, there's only so high you can raise the volume before you admit you're never gonna understand what British detectives are saying."

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

"A haand gel...!?"

Fred interpreted the word compact as a verb, not as an adjective.

Shrewsbury - pronunciation

Latest Aye Phone

'Read me 'Br'er Rabbit again and this time leave out the southern accent.'

Ralph Stanley

'Now that we've learned to talk, we can have FOCUS GROUPS!'

"Well that answers that question!"

"This quarterly report is terrible. The only way we can make this sound better is if we read it in an English accent."

"Listen to you ... you've already lost your accent ... "

"We'd like bruschetta, and we'd like it pronounced correctly."

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

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

Meanwhile in Yorkshire

You say genetically modified po-tay-to. I say genetically modified po-tah-to.

Welcome to California. You may begin your Schwarzenegger imitation now

Brothers Grimm

"He talks at 100 miles an hour." "With gusts up to 120."

'Do you want me to serve you with a French accent or in just plain English?'

"I know it's a foreign book...but I'm reading it with a local accent."

'You must be the angel of the north.'

"This is not the first time I have been asked to speak."

FE AST. Now that we're all together, let's eat!

Werewolves of London, Ontario

"The British say the word ‘privacy’ funny! The British say the word ‘privacy’ funny!"

'I, for one, am sick of this 'King of the Apes' business! I demand a Republic!'