Accent Detectives Prints

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

Pirate boy reciting the alphabet

"It's not fair! I only got 100 on my English test!"

"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...!?"

"And here is the very stone that finally enabled us to figure out what all those dogs and cats were saying."

CHAUCER 411, 'Boy -- that guy spells worse than I do!'

Shrewsbury - pronunciation

Scouse For Beginners

"Look, look … someone wrote unoperable."

Latest Aye Phone

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

"I detect an accent – money?"

"I'd know my tinnitus anywhere and this isn't it."

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

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

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

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

'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.'

Cowboy on horse sees diretion sign for 'thataway'.

"Our researchers have discovered that 'E' is the most common, and only, letter in the dolphin alphabet."

'I've gone from spanning the globe at lightening speed to struggling with some techie's accent over a bad connection.'

"What if I tried again with an English accent?"

"Nope, Jeb's my pardner. My partner is Zeke."

Sorry I thought you were British – I'm just terrible with accents.

''Pop'? In my part of the country they're called a 'Soda-Tart'.'

'Quaint Ye Olde Diner,' with a sign 'Mom's home cooked meal, $3.50, Colloquial Native Chatter $1.00 extra.'

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

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