English speaking countries still use some different words, tell us ?

We always called a footpath just that, but it's slowly being changed to sidewalk
 

Ken, just watched what you posted, the easiest for me to follow was the Ohio accent, then the Texas and lastly the Kentucky accent.
 
I see I was supposed to do a video demonstrating my accent. Oops. I'll try to do one after I'm over my cold so I don't sound like a frog.
 
There are some pretty hard to understand accents here too, particularly the Geordie accent [in the North around Newcastle]also the Scouse accent [Liverpool] the Brummie accent [around Birmingham] and all the Scottish, Irish and Welsh accents. However, the Irish accent is the nearest thing to an American one.Here in the UK we can easliy understand all Australian and New Zealand accents, also Canadian ones, but do struggle a bit with some from the US.
 
I just encountered the expression "captain's call" being used by the Australian PM to excuse some of his questionable recent decisions. It was mentioned that this was a term used in the game of cricket. Can anyone suggest some other cricket terminology which has made it's way into the broader general language. American sports have supplied numerous such expressions. Cricket has always been such a mystery to me
 
oakapple said:
There are some pretty hard to understand accents here too, particularly the Geordie accent [in the North around Newcastle]also the Scouse accent [Liverpool] the Brummie accent [around Birmingham] and all the Scottish, Irish and Welsh accents. However, the Irish accent is the nearest thing to an American one.Here in the UK we can easliy understand all Australian and New Zealand accents, also Canadian ones, but do struggle a bit with some from the US.
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I've got a solid midwest accent and I've been asked in the UK if I'm Irish, as have other Americans. I really don't find the Irish accent anything like any American one. I'm much better at understanding Welsh accents than when I moved here. As for Scottish, some are much easier to understand than others. A thick Glaswegian one is still sometimes difficult for me to understand.

NY accents can be hard to understand and probably some southern ones. Boston is different but I can easily understand it.
 
Josiah, cricketing terms used in language , hmmn, there is 'on a sticky wicket'[something difficult to get out of, a tricky situation]
or you may say 'that's just not cricket' [meaning it's unfair]or you may say 'he played a blinder' [a great move.]Can't think of any more at the moment. Cricket is a mystery to most people, but I never ask Mr Oakapple about it as he is inclined to go on and on until my eyes are glazing over.Both he and our son love cricket, and they both used to play for the village team.
 
Ameriscot, that's strange isn't it, as over here we think the US accents [from certain areas ] are very close to Irish.Of course, so many Irish people emigrated to the US that they were bound to influence the language of certain regions.Where did the original settlers [to the mid-west] come from?
 
oakapple said:
Josiah, cricketing terms used in language , hmmn, there is 'on a sticky wicket'[something difficult to get out of, a tricky situation]
or you may say 'that's just not cricket' [meaning it's unfair]or you may say 'he played a blinder' [a great move.]Can't think of any more at the moment. Cricket is a mystery to most people, but I never ask Mr Oakapple about it as he is inclined to go on and on until my eyes are glazing over.Both he and our son love cricket, and they both used to play for the village team.
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Those are very good examples. I've never heard the word "blinder" is it pronounced with a short i or a long i?
 
oakapple said:
Ameriscot, that's strange isn't it, as over here we think the US accents [from certain areas ] are very close to Irish.Of course, so many Irish people emigrated to the US that they were bound to influence the language of certain regions.Where did the original settlers [to the mid-west] come from?
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I've always been curious at how accents developed. Where did the southern accents come from? Are they a mix of Irish, English, German, Scottish accents? Midwest would have been settled by many. My gggrandparents were Irish and settled in Michigan.
 
Josiah, it's said with a long i as in 'bly-nder'.
Ameriscot, yes the accents of the US regions must have been formed by the majority of the settlers and their accents [New England for instance I think is the nearest to an English accent.]People came from so many different countries even Sweden.
 
oakapple said:
Yes, I enjoyed hearing this too [5 accents of the boroughs of NYC]. any truth in it, or just for fun?
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I think it was more of a broad spoofing than an honest evaluation. There's certainly an element of truth in the accents but they're taken to such lengths that they become characterizations.

Being born and raised in NY and later living in NYC I can say that most New Yorkers that I encountered had broad vowels ("New Yawk") and lazy words ("dis, dat, dem and doze").

"Dese here guys, dey're goin' ta New Yawk". ;)

The inter-borough accents? Not sure if they're all that cut-and-dried - there has been a lot of "interbreeding" and moving amongst the boroughs.
 
Well we can't just classify a 'scots' accent, because like everywhere there are so many different dialects. This guy doesn't speak anything like me at all... thank goodness LOL
 

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