#accents — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #accents, aggregated by home.social.
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‘They were competing for supremacy’: Which is the oldest English accent?
Two BBC journalists go on a quest to find out whose accent is older – and uncover a dramatic history filled with hidden twists and surprises that have shaped the language we speak today.
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‘They were competing for supremacy’: Which is the oldest English accent?
Two BBC journalists go on a quest to find out whose accent is older – and uncover a dramatic history filled with hidden twists and surprises that have shaped the language we speak today.
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Question du matin : les animaux ont-ils des accents ou des idiomes ? Les cigales des Alpes Maritimes chantent-elles comme celles des Bouches-du-Rhône ?
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Question du matin : les animaux ont-ils des accents ou des idiomes ? Les cigales des Alpes Maritimes chantent-elles comme celles des Bouches-du-Rhône ?
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116845783092318691
Leave it to a Brit director to plunge Ancient Greece into a sea of American accents. Hell, even Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson are hissing at each other like Yanks. What gives‽
I expect my stage & screen ancients to have crisp, Oxbridge diction, not mumbling like Robert Mitchum.
Hit those consonants hard, thespians!
🎭🇺🇲🇬🇧🏺🎬🍿🎥 🩴#Movies #Film #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Accents #Summer #Blockbuster #SandalEpic
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116845783092318691
Leave it to a Brit director to plunge Ancient Greece into a sea of American accents. Hell, even Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson are hissing at each other like Yanks. What gives‽
I expect my stage & screen ancients to have crisp, Oxbridge diction, not mumbling like Robert Mitchum.
Hit those consonants hard, thespians!
🎭🇺🇲🇬🇧🏺🎬🍿🎥 🩴#Movies #Film #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Accents #Summer #Blockbuster #SandalEpic
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My partner and I went to dinner with friends last night and they asked him about where they put the vehicles repaired and waiting for repair at the garage he works for. Thus commenced a response about cahs, yahds, pahkin and garahges. Boston is losing its accent but not with this guy. I deserve an extra cocktail for controlling my laughter. #Bawstin #accents
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My partner and I went to dinner with friends last night and they asked him about where they put the vehicles repaired and waiting for repair at the garage he works for. Thus commenced a response about cahs, yahds, pahkin and garahges. Boston is losing its accent but not with this guy. I deserve an extra cocktail for controlling my laughter. #Bawstin #accents
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New podcast episode! We chatted with Valerie Fridland about accents, and her new book "Why We Talk Funny?".
https://www.alliterative.net/podcast/2026/06/15/2026/episode-125-accents-with-valerie-fridland
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New podcast episode! We chatted with Valerie Fridland about accents, and her new book "Why We Talk Funny?".
https://www.alliterative.net/podcast/2026/06/15/2026/episode-125-accents-with-valerie-fridland
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I have a question specifically for people from the British Isles. What do you think about the final "t" in the word "restaurant" being silent or audible?
A — must be silent; that's just the way it's pronounced correctly
B — silent is posh, audible is normal
C — silent is British, audible is non-British (North American, for example)
D — something else (please add comment to elaborate)Boosts appreciated!
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I have a question specifically for people from the British Isles. What do you think about the final "t" in the word "restaurant" being silent or audible?
A — must be silent; that's just the way it's pronounced correctly
B — silent is posh, audible is normal
C — silent is British, audible is non-British (North American, for example)
D — something else (please add comment to elaborate)Boosts appreciated!
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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on #regionalisms, #accents and #dialects they absorbed where they were during their formative years speaking. Got into specifics of how placements and vowels can shift. Good to hear them do text various ways shifting between things.
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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on #regionalisms, #accents and #dialects they absorbed where they were during their formative years speaking. Got into specifics of how placements and vowels can shift. Good to hear them do text various ways shifting between things.
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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on #regionalisms, #accents and #dialects they absorbed where they were during their formative years speaking. Got into specifics of how placements and vowels can shift. Good to hear them do text various ways shifting between things. #AccentReduction #voice
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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on #regionalisms, #accents and #dialects they absorbed where they were during their formative years speaking. Got into specifics of how placements and vowels can shift. Good to hear them do text various ways shifting between things. #AccentReduction #voice
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I found this video explaining why TV/TikTok etc aren't making all accents the same, surprising and interesting:
https://youtu.be/su2IeakC7tc?si=wH_xYdH-zaxzd3kv -
🗣️🗣️🗣️🤔🧐🤠🥸😎🤓💁🏾*Why Do We Have Accents?👉
Why Do We Have Accents? | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/language-in-the-wild/202605/why-do-we-have-accents#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17791195706470&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2Fus%2Fblog%2Flanguage-in-the-wild%2F202605%2Fwhy-do-we-have-accents -
Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
https://letsdatascience.com/news/telus-uses-ai-to-alter-call-agent-accents-a3868f63
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Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
https://letsdatascience.com/news/telus-uses-ai-to-alter-call-agent-accents-a3868f63
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#cei #JOI Games, #accents #Amateur Cum #countdown #fakecum #highheels #mature #MommyDomme #Fantasyhttps://iwantclips.com/store/1474430/Mature-Milf/6214611/MommyDomme-says-eat-cum
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Today's #RGBots tries to clear up some language misconceptions by answering a reader question by @itsFriday on Mastodon.
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Today's #RGBots tries to clear up some language misconceptions by answering a reader question by @itsFriday on Mastodon.
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If anyone needs voice acting for a project and against ai my kids dad is not a professional but he does imo perfect impressions and accents and voices and stuff so I don't know just throwing that out there. Not even sure what to use for tags for this lol #fedihire
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If anyone needs voice acting for a project and against ai my kids dad is not a professional but he does imo perfect impressions and accents and voices and stuff so I don't know just throwing that out there. Not even sure what to use for tags for this lol #fedihire
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https://youtu.be/E7wQD4wKwjs
Antarctica Has An Accent and It's Weirder Than You Think#Linguistics #antarctica #accents #Language #ShitIFind #speech
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https://youtu.be/E7wQD4wKwjs
Antarctica Has An Accent and It's Weirder Than You Think#Linguistics #antarctica #accents #Language #ShitIFind #speech
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Working with an #acting #coaching client on an accent with material that lands so differently when more vowel substitutions are included. The entire feel of who their character is shifted. So cool to hear and see them explore those options. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #accents #dialects #voiceover
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Working with an #acting #coaching client on an accent with material that lands so differently when more vowel substitutions are included. The entire feel of who their character is shifted. So cool to hear and see them explore those options. #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #accents #dialects #voiceover
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Facebook reminded me of this gem:
My daughter's soccer coach had a schedule conflict and couldn't show up until the start of the second half. So I started warming the team up until the substitute coach arrived. When he showed up, he said to me -- and I quote:
"Wot tame is kack-off mint tae be?"
It took me a second to realize that A) he's from Scotland and B) he wanted to know when the match was scheduled to start.
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Facebook reminded me of this gem:
My daughter's soccer coach had a schedule conflict and couldn't show up until the start of the second half. So I started warming the team up until the substitute coach arrived. When he showed up, he said to me -- and I quote:
"Wot tame is kack-off mint tae be?"
It took me a second to realize that A) he's from Scotland and B) he wanted to know when the match was scheduled to start.
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Brit shares the one-word ‘dead giveaway’ that American actors can’t do in an English accent
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Brit shares the one-word ‘dead giveaway’ that American actors can’t do in an English accent
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A woman didn’t think she had an accent. A linguist proved her wrong with just one word.
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A woman didn’t think she had an accent. A linguist proved her wrong with just one word.
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Saw some excited reaction videos lately to a clip of an Irish politician sounding Caribbean. This is a good analysis of what's going on, by Nadine White:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/04/viral-speech-ireland-thomas-gould-colonial-history-caribbean-englishPaywall workaround:
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/04/viral-speech-ireland-thomas-gould-colonial-history-caribbean-english#language #linguistics #colonialism #IrishEnglish #accents #Caribbean #HistoricalLinguistics #Mastodaoine
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Saw some excited reaction videos lately to a clip of an Irish politician sounding Caribbean. This is a good analysis of what's going on, by Nadine White:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/04/viral-speech-ireland-thomas-gould-colonial-history-caribbean-englishPaywall workaround:
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/04/viral-speech-ireland-thomas-gould-colonial-history-caribbean-english#language #linguistics #colonialism #IrishEnglish #accents #Caribbean #HistoricalLinguistics #Mastodaoine
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Delivery person: Thanks for the chip!
My mouth: No worries!
My brain:
Did he have some of my chips?
Can't be, I didn't order chips.
Oh wait, did he mean 'tip'?
Of course, he must be Brazilian.
Oh, he's gone now. -
Delivery person: Thanks for the chip!
My mouth: No worries!
My brain:
Did he have some of my chips?
Can't be, I didn't order chips.
Oh wait, did he mean 'tip'?
Of course, he must be Brazilian.
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The weird history of Spoonerisms: English's silliest slips-of-the-tongue
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/history-of-the-spoonerism
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The weird history of Spoonerisms: English's silliest slips-of-the-tongue
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/history-of-the-spoonerism
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Has anyone noticed that trump speaks with some features of the #Iowan accent? I don't think it's the accent exactly, more the cadence or enunciation maybe? I noticed this when listening to interviewees at the Iowa state fair.
I then discovered that the Iowan accent is considered the most friendly and wondered if he'd adopted this way of speaking purposefully. Fake like his tan, hair, height, weight etc.
Would love to get some opinions.
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Has anyone noticed that trump speaks with some features of the #Iowan accent? I don't think it's the accent exactly, more the cadence or enunciation maybe? I noticed this when listening to interviewees at the Iowa state fair.
I then discovered that the Iowan accent is considered the most friendly and wondered if he'd adopted this way of speaking purposefully. Fake like his tan, hair, height, weight etc.
Would love to get some opinions.
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Edit: Thanks to every one who answered. I learnt a lot about U.S. linguistics and Boston !
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How do People from Boston, America pronounce Boston?[This is just for funzies.]
Boyf and I are disagreeing 🤣
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Edit: Thanks to every one who answered. I learnt a lot about U.S. linguistics and Boston !
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How do People from Boston, America pronounce Boston?[This is just for funzies.]
Boyf and I are disagreeing 🤣
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How well is your local accent portrayed?
As someone who has lived in Philadelphia a long time I can attest most Hollywood versions of the Philly accent are max cringe and dead wrong.
Mare of Easttown was a notable exception that got it right.
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How well is your local accent portrayed?
As someone who has lived in Philadelphia a long time I can attest most Hollywood versions of the Philly accent are max cringe and dead wrong.
Mare of Easttown was a notable exception that got it right.
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Android Authority: NotebookLM is flirting with long lectures and British accents. “As much as we admire NotebookLM, Google isn’t resting on its laurels and continues to tweak the AI app. The latest feature in testing looks to be a new ‘Lecture’ format for Audio Overviews in NotebookLM, and there may also be a British twist on the way.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/26/android-authority-notebooklm-is-flirting-with-long-lectures-and-british-accents/ -
Android Authority: NotebookLM is flirting with long lectures and British accents. “As much as we admire NotebookLM, Google isn’t resting on its laurels and continues to tweak the AI app. The latest feature in testing looks to be a new ‘Lecture’ format for Audio Overviews in NotebookLM, and there may also be a British twist on the way.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/26/android-authority-notebooklm-is-flirting-with-long-lectures-and-british-accents/ -
Accent shaming:
Laughing at the way someone speaks or repeating what they say back to them in an attempted impersonation.
It is vile and belittling, don't do it!
Personally I love that people have different accents, it should be celebrated!