# What accent is this, and why do Euros think it sounds American?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 19, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-and-why-do-euros-think-it-sounds-american/578927 "2011-04-19T03:24:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-and-why-do-euros-think-it-sounds-american/578927/61 "2011-04-21T21:17:38Z")

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> [@md2000](#):
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> Speaking as a Canadina…
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> I hear subtle Irish accent in there. It sounds like someone who was raised with an Irish accent then tried to blend in in North America. It’s certainly no normal Canadian accent. Newfoundlanders, and to some extent other east coast Canadians, have a distinct accent - that sounds nothing like it. (Newfie sounds somewhat like cockney more so than Irish see - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-greE4w1LgY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-greE4w1LgY) ).
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> Toward the end, yes, he sounds more distinctively Irish.

Well, that’s not a particularly thick Newfoundland accent, but it’s certainly a Newfoundland accent.

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**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-and-why-do-euros-think-it-sounds-american/578927/62 "2011-04-21T21:44:47Z")

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Irish. Notice when he says ‘Look, I’m just trying to help’. Note the way he says ‘help’. It’s subtle, but definitely there to me. Maybe, as another poster said, it’s someone who was born in Ireland but came to the US (or Canada) when he was a kid. I’d guess Canada, as some of the other stuff he says has a subtle Canadian ring to it.

Not that it’s all that important…there are assholes in every country, and we certainly have our share. And I’ve noticed that they tend to be concentrated in first person shooter audio forums especially. 😛

-XT

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-accent-is-this-and-why-do-euros-think-it-sounds-american/578927/63 "2011-04-21T22:10:23Z")

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He’s an Irishman trying to sound American, and failing. It sounds really obvious to me.

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