[Discussion] pronounciation 2.0

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I was watching the inbetweeners again and it got me thinking.

How do you guys prefer to hear the word weekend?

Americans say it like wee-kend, sounds sort of like we can.

British say it like week-end.

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Huh, granted my interaction with British English is only through television but it sounds like most British actors annunciate both words fully.
All British accents in American TV are the stereotypical bull that many Americans believe to be the "British Accent" when in fact, no such thing exists. The perfect eloquence and unaffected speech patterns are something still rehashed because they're easily relatable.

1000s of years of history creates 100s of regional accents; all dissimilar.

(PS: Sorry if I come off as peppery, it's just a pet peeve. ;))
 

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I never noticed the difference - I'm American, and my personal trainer has a British accent. Sounds like it might be a regional pronunciation?
 

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All British accents in American TV are the stereotypical bull that many Americans believe to be the "British Accent" when in fact, no such thing exists. The perfect eloquence and unaffected speech patterns are something still rehashed because they're easily relatable.

1000s of years of history creates 100s of regional accents; all dissimilar.

(PS: Sorry if I come off as peppery, it's just a pet peeve. ;))
I should have been clearer, tv shows like Inbetweeners, PramFace, Todd Margaret, Broadchurch, Black Mirrors etc. actual British shows with British born actors. I hear what you're saying though because there is that whole cockney accent to British English as well as others(only one I know by name) just like in US there's North-East, South-East, South, Minnesota area etc.
 

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Week-end

[video=youtube;tBUzngDUOnk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBUzngDUOnk[/video]


I find the pronunciation for the word, "review" to be funny. Most people get it wrong.
 

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It's literally the same thing. If you say it fast it sounds like, "wee-kend". If slow it down to enunciate it would be "week-end".
 

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I should have been clearer, tv shows like Inbetweeners, PramFace, Todd Margaret, Broadchurch, Black Mirrors etc. actual British shows with British born actors. I hear what you're saying though because there is that whole cockney accent to British English as well as others(only one I know by name) just like in US there's North-East, South-East, South, Minnesota area etc.
Those are all shows with null accents or have American influence. What I mean is that even British actors working on shows aimed with America in mind, will have to adopt that accent.

But in reality, it's not like that. Even my home county has around 50 variations of an accent with their own dialect that can be hard to understand for those who are even only 10-20 miles away. One of the famed accents for that is the Geordie accent...

[video=youtube;ZY4TT3VtR8o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY4TT3VtR8o[/video]
 

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Those are all shows with null accents or have American influence. What I mean is that even British actors working on shows aimed with America in mind, will have to adopt that accent.

But in reality, it's not like that. Even my home county has around 50 variations of an accent with their own dialect that can be hard to understand for those who are even only 10-20 miles away. One of the famed accents for that is the Geordie accent...

[video=youtube;ZY4TT3VtR8o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY4TT3VtR8o[/video]
Yeah that's a little harder, I caught some talk about the steelers rather than the Dolphins, dad said do you cheer for them(or something along those lines) the boy said every week on channel 4, something about being picked up kid responds back I'm 10 then I stopped to write this. Some of the stuff said sounds a lot like a co-worker of mine.

What's a null accent and I know todd Margaret is aimed at/done with Americans but Inbetweeners and BlackMirror are as well?
 
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