Every soccer game ends one-nil on a disputed penalty kick.
I also woudl think U.S. citizens were exposed to British accents very early on, even before the seventies. Many movies and TV-shows, also in the eighties and nineties, have bits where someone tries to do a British accent. Wouldn’t many persons in the sixties have seen James Bond, and possibly The Saint or The Avengers?
Yes, and Terry-Thomas, and Peter Lawford, Cary Grant, and many more. But it may be exaggerated imitations that get noticed the most.
Can’t cite one off the top of my head, but I have heard it before, and it basically sounds like someone over-pronouncing every word with excess crispness, hard “ings”, extra hard Rs. Just being extremely conscious of every single syllable.
American moviegoers had been exposed to British accents since the dawn of talkies. Some of Hollywood’s biggest hits featured British accents: Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Robin Hood, Lawrence of Arabia, Spartacus, the James Bond films, the Star Wars films… the list goes on. Not to mention the fact that people watched a lot more movies then than they do now.
Not sure it’s fair to generalize. The first time I saw Sienna Miller in a movie, American Sniper, where she played the protagonist’s wife, I just assumed without further thought or doubt that she was American. I was astounded when I first saw her on The Daily Show back in the Jon Stewart days; her natural accent is very distinctly British. Even Stewart commented on the astounding difference between her natural accent and some of her movie roles (she just said, “it’s called acting”). She was actually born in NYC, but was raised most of her life in London.
Nicola Bryant on Doctor Who : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbNObePPs6g&list=PLBCE10934A1600BEA&index=11
Huh? Is this the wrong video? The only American accent I’m hearing here is a strong long island accent, hardly “standard American”, and honestly it’s not that bad. Annoying, but not terribly inaccurate.
Hmm. Your M obviously Vs. I hear this as Nicola Bryant - who’s British - attempting a General American accent. The character she’s playing, Peri Brown, is from California.
Again, are you SURE this video is correct? Cause the video I’m seeing is a clip of “Daleks in Manhattan”, which according to IMDB, doesn’t even have Nicola Bryant in it. IIRC, she was featured much earlier than this.
Aw, damn, I must have. I pulled up the “Daleks in Manhattan” clip to illustrate, but then realized those weren’t General American accents. Was trying to post this: - YouTube
Thanks. Yeah, that’s pretty bad. Honestly it comes off like bad acting all around.
She’s going for that 1930s NYC gangster moll type accent. She actually sounds just like Cyndi Lauper.
Honestly I can barely even hear her in this clip, the sound is so poor.
You folks know Scarlett O’Hara and Ashley Wilkes were both British?
In a bit of a tangent, I recall all those sword and sandal epics where the Roman leaders and officers spoke with high class British accents. It seems to me that in all fairness, the enlisted soldiers and common folk should have spoken with Cockney or Scouse accents.
Truly amazing to me; I had no idea.
Does “fixin ta” fall in the same dialect as “y’all”?
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Daniel Craig in Knives Out. I really enjoyed his performance, though I have no idea how authentic his accent was. It was certainly over-the-top, but then, some genuine southern accents do sound over-the-top to us northerners.
On the other hand, I have four nieces who were born and raised in North Carolina, and (to me anyway) have no trace of an accent. That’s probably because their parents are native Chicagoans. I’ve spent considerable time in the Raleigh area and have encountered folks with thick accents, mild accents, and no accents at all. So you can’t assume all residents of a certain region all sound the same anyway.
The funny part about that film is that for the first like half hour I had no idea what accent he was doing. I guess it seems like he’s trying to do an upper class Kentucky accent? It’s not as over the top as his turn in Logan Lucky at least :D.
I regularly say both “y’all” and “fixin’ to”.
I don’t know if it’s Southern but I’ve used “reckon”.