The Boston United States Accent

Bloody brilliant

Caaar

Paaark

Daaaark

faaaart...horrible accent

Always remember this scene from Ted https://youtu.be/3sJwYGsbe5g

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Originally Posted by Trigger

Always remember this scene from Ted https://youtu.be/3sJwYGsbe5g

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Its almost kaardiff

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Its almost kaardiff

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More than a hint of Derry in there.

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Originally Posted by Garth Blue

More than a hint of Derry in there.

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Apparently the caaar side of things is very much a port influence due to Irish immigration

Boston , Liverpool and Cardiff all had massive Irish immigration and it was no surprise to me that when I went to college my mate from Grangetown was always asked if he was from Liverpool

People from port talbot also abuse their vowels in this manner

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Apparently the caaar side of things is very much a port influence due to Irish immigration

Boston , Liverpool and Cardiff all had massive Irish immigration and it was no surprise to me that when I went to college my mate from Grangetown was always asked if he was from Liverpool

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Many people in England assumed I was a scouser when I was younger. "You don't sound Welsh". How many times have those of us from Cardiff and the Vale heard that? I remember the first time an English person actually placed me as being Welsh. It was a Liverpudlian cab driver.

Been asked a lot over here if I’ve spent time in Boston.

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Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue

Been asked a lot over here if I’ve spent time in Boston.

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Baaston lol

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Baaston lol

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That’s exactly how they say it.
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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

Many people in England assumed I was a scouser when I was younger. "You don't sound Welsh". How many times have those of us from Cardiff and the Vale heard that? I remember the first time an English person actually placed me as being Welsh. It was a Liverpudlian cab driver.

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a very strong cardiff accent is like nothing in Wales

Not much difference between a swansea accent and the rest of South wales but cardiff and Newport are totally different to all of them

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Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue

That’s exactly how they say it.
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Its really raw , supposed to be a tough , blue collar seaport city , like cardiff really

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

Many people in England assumed I was a scouser when I was younger. "You don't sound Welsh". How many times have those of us from Cardiff and the Vale heard that? I remember the first time an English person actually placed me as being Welsh. It was a Liverpudlian cab driver.

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I live in the United States, and only once has anyone ever correctly identified me as Welsh. It was my barber, the first time I got my hair cut by him. Typical old-style barber shop, walls covered three deep with sports memorabilia and a line of guys sitting in chairs waiting their turn. Not a woman in sight. "You have an accent," he said. "Where you from?"

Well, I said, we have some time so why don't you guess? Usually, when I say this to people we go on a world tour, from England to Scotland to Ireland, to Canada, to New Zealand, even to South Africa. No one ever thinks of Wales.

But this guy, he stood back, pondered a while, and said:

"You're from that country Tom Jones is from."

And I had to admit it was true.

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Originally Posted by jimmyscoular

I live in the United States, and only once has anyone ever correctly identified me as Welsh. It was my barber, the first time I got my hair cut by him. Typical old-style barber shop, walls covered three deep with sports memorabilia and a line of guys sitting in chairs waiting their turn. Not a woman in sight. "You have an accent," he said. "Where you from?"

Well, I said, we have some time so why don't you guess? Usually, when I say this to people we go on a world tour, from England to Scotland to Ireland, to Canada, to New Zealand, even to South Africa. No one ever thinks of Wales.

But this guy, he stood back, pondered a while, and said:

"You're from that country Tom Jones is from."

And I had to admit it was true.

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It usually is a geographical A-Z before I lose patience and say Wales.
In all fairness, people who have actually heard of Wales seems to have gone up tenfold in the 18 years that I have been here.

Where abouts in The US are you?

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Originally Posted by jimmyscoular

I live in the United States, and only once has anyone ever correctly identified me as Welsh. It was my barber, the first time I got my hair cut by him. Typical old-style barber shop, walls covered three deep with sports memorabilia and a line of guys sitting in chairs waiting their turn. Not a woman in sight. "You have an accent," he said. "Where you from?"

Well, I said, we have some time so why don't you guess? Usually, when I say this to people we go on a world tour, from England to Scotland to Ireland, to Canada, to New Zealand, even to South Africa. No one ever thinks of Wales.

But this guy, he stood back, pondered a while, and said:

"You're from that country Tom Jones is from."

And I had to admit it was true.

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Wow. That doesn't happen very often over here. Most of them haven't even heard of Wales outside the context of Prince of or Princess of.

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Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue

It usually is a geographical A-Z before I lose patience and say Wales.
In all fairness, people who have actually heard of Wales seems to have gone up tenfold in the 18 years that I have been here.

Where abouts in The US are you?

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Omaha.

Always quite liked the Boston accent, New York meets the Irish with cardiff in it....

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

Wow. That doesn't happen very often over here. Most of them haven't even heard of Wales outside the context of Prince of or Princess of.

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I go to America a couple of times a year and gave up explaining a long time ago.
If you say you're Welsh or from Wales it's usually a polite.. 'Oh, OK' followed by a moment of silence while they try and work out where tf it could be.
I find it a lot simpler to just say the UK these days.
I've never been patriotic in a Welsh sense anyway (apart from the football) so it makes no difference to me. JMO..

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Apparently the caaar side of things is very much a port influence due to Irish immigration

Boston , Liverpool and Cardiff all had massive Irish immigration and it was no surprise to me that when I went to college my mate from Grangetown was always asked if he was from Liverpool

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Old Gwenhwyseg (basically native south east Walian Welsh dialect) also used to do something similar to its vowels.

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Originally Posted by Kind of Blue

Old Gwenhwyseg (basically native south east Walian Welsh dialect) also used to do something similar to its vowels.

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cardiff and Newport are so different , Newport has that strong west country influence in round and town etc but its said that both are highly influenced by Irish immigration , hence them sounding a bit like scouse and Boston