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Here in America, it appears to me that the most favorite accent for us to fake is an English accent. I can’t get any more specific than that though, like naming a regional dialect, like say, cockney, because, for one, I don’t know the names of any other dialects, and also, I hear our fake accents don’t sound like they come from any of those regions anyway, because they sound fake to an actual English person.
So anyway, if you live in England, what appears to you to be the most popular accent to fake?
Do you mean which English accent is most often faked, or which accent per se.
I’d say the latter is the “cod Irish”, that English people always think my Irish wife will find hilarious. She doesn’t. Alternatively, generic “American” (usually sounds like a bad Texan accent), and fake Indian/Pakistani, though this is often frowned on.
It’s a bit difficult to guess what sort of English accent the average American is trying to fake … most of the fake English accents I’ve heard sound either vaguely Australian or vaguely South African to me.
Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins is attempting a Cockney accent (that is, a particular subset of a working-class London accent). You can recognize a real Cockney accent by the way it sounds absolutely nothing like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
Oh, sorry I wasn’t more clear. I’m talking about any accent spoken anywhere in the world.
By the way, what is “cod Irish”? Obviously I know about Irish accent’s, but what’s the cod part? (Yes, this question gives away that I’m a dumb American :D)
Oh, and sometimes I like faking an Indian accent. Actually, it’s more trying to sound like Apu from the Simpsons.
Hehehe. Hey, if you’ve seen Family Guy, isn’t Stewy supposed to be speaking with a British accent?
Yeah, Joel, he sure is. But I think it’s not really supposed to be at all authentic. I mean, he’s a baby, he has a football-shaped head, he’s smarter than most people I know, and he’s a cartoon. So I think the authenticity of the accent becomes irrelevant.
sigh I love Family Guy.
So which dialect is he supposed to be speaking? Or does it sound like any English dialect at all?
Oh, and in the episode where he tried to teach a baby girl from England how to speak proper English, I’m assuming that she was supposed to be speaking with a Cockney accent?
His cockney acent is noted as being one of the worst (semi-serious) appempts at an Englsih accent.
The worst American accent by a Britisher ever was Eric Idle’s attempt at an American accent as a Monty Python member. I remember thinking “What the hell is that ?” when I heard it the first time. It was this weird slowed down nasal gargle with all the “A’s” flattened and drawn out.
It’s not really a regional accent - I think it’s meant to be a sort of middle-class university educated accent - also known as “Received Pronunciation”.
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His Cockney accent is noted as being one of the worst (semi-serious) attempts at an English accent.
Wow, thank goodness you corrected yourself. I had no clue what you ment by Englsh. 
astro, Eric Idle’s “American” accent is only the worst that made it to the States. Plays on British TV, and especially on the radio, have attempts at American accents so woeful I almost chew my own arm off listening to them.
When I saw “Who Framed Roger Rabit” I had never heard of Bob Hoskins before and didn’t realize for a long time that he’s British.
In my opinion, he’s an example of a British person doing a good job at faking an American accent.
Other very bad fake American accents:
Gary Oldman in True Romance
Catherine Zeta Jones in High Fidelity
Do Gary Oldman and Catherine Zeta Jones actually have any kind of authentic accent? To me, they both sound fake every time they open their mouths, whatever they’re supposed to be…
While we’re on the subject, what did 'Merkins interpret Anthony Hopkins’s accent to be in the Hannibal Lecter movies?
Sounded like a transplanted Brit. Same applies to his “Nixon” role, although he gave it the old college try.
Murricans faking neutral English accents seem to place to much emphasis on separating syllables grinding out vowels, and hitting word ends too hard, especially t’s.
I love it when British people do American accents. I’m an American, and I much prefer to listen to most British accents–I just think faked American accents are so funny.
To answer jjimm’s question, I never really thought about it–I certainly never thought he was British. I guess I thought it was just a. . . cultured? voice of some kind.
Heh…I recently got paid to teach 200 Brits how to sing with an American accent. The childrens choirs had no difficulty learning to sing in perfect Midwest Neutral, but the adults had a much harder time of it (and ended up sounding more Ulster than Iowa, IMO).
Your average Brit does an American accent about as well as your average American does an English accent: not very.