# Things you always say in a borrowed accent.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 28, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-always-say-in-a-borrowed-accent/508053 "2009-08-28T17:42:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-always-say-in-a-borrowed-accent/508053/81 "2009-09-06T23:22:39Z")

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I can only say “Sorry about that, mate” in Australian.

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**Author:** ![Jerseyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Jerseyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerseyman)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-always-say-in-a-borrowed-accent/508053/82 "2009-09-06T23:24:19Z")

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> [@Number](#):
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> I tend to refer to the common petroleum-based fuel as “gazzaline”, like Mel Gibson says it in _Mad Max 2_.
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> Also, invariably, after watching _The Commitments_ I say everything in a Northside Dublin accent for at least half a day. Everyone else thinks it’s really shoite and tells me to shut the fook oop.

That’s Scots! A real Northside accent is a protracted whine that manages to avoid all recognisable consonants and ideally reduce all vowels to variants on E. It’s the sort of accent derived from generations of speaking with an unfiltered cigarette glued to your lip, preferably home-rolled.

Gaa emme, I muin ba ther thi wee

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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-always-say-in-a-borrowed-accent/508053/83 "2009-09-07T14:50:35Z")

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Around here a lot of people speak Spanish most of the time. The spouse and I have come to almost always say cheekin for chicken.

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**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-always-say-in-a-borrowed-accent/508053/84 "2009-09-07T16:09:55Z")

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> [@Jerseyman](#):
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> That’s Scots! A real Northside accent is a protracted whine that manages to avoid all recognisable consonants and ideally reduce all vowels to variants on E. It’s the sort of accent derived from generations of speaking with an unfiltered cigarette glued to your lip, preferably home-rolled.

Well I think my version is something approximating what was spoken in the movie, and most of the cast were genuine Northsiders. In the Collector’s Edition DVD extras (which are, incidentally, very cool), the writer Roddy Doyle seemed pleased with the adaptation of his novel, though apparently the actors got carried away at times and added a lot of profanity which wasn’t in the original dialogue. Chalk it up to veri-fookin’-similitude.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-always-say-in-a-borrowed-accent/508053/85 "2009-09-07T16:39:58Z")

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“Zere ees…a minkey…in my rheum.”

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