Counting backwards from 1,000,000

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And people think Counting to 1,000,000 will be hard enough to complete.

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Million count is a doddle

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"doddle"

Yay for new vocabulary. I need to learn the magical Britspeak for my comic.

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Being Strayan I was raised on Strayn, Murican and Pommie English.


I'm like multilingual in one language


The cost of this is I don't know which I'm using often!  I just makes dem words.


"Crucifixion's a doddle" Monty Python's Life of Brian

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Regions in the US are pretty goofy with words and phrases. There are phrases that are compliments in one region, but in another region, the same exact phrases are insults. "Bless your heart" is a very notable example.

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LOL that sounds right   Sometimes I say "bless" in a genuine sense, like when a cub does something adorable and kind for example, but sometimes in a different way, like when my dog does something stupid

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I often switch between different pronunciations of words, such as with "(n)either" and "data". Sometimes I use two pronunciations of a word within a single sentence.

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LOL  I'm exactly the same!  I was just talking to my colleague about it.


Sometimes I say En-velope and sometimes On-velope, same for shedule and skedule.


Words like dance vs dahnce... agen vs agayn, I really struggle with and if I think about it then everything sounds wrong.

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I have never heard it pronounced "agayn" before.

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It definitely part of the broad OZ and NZ accents

and often in songs

you can hear it in the rhymes of the Muppet soundtracks written Kiwi Bret McKenzie

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I usually pronounce Fursona "fer-sah-nah", which sounds weird to some people. Most people seem to pronounce it "fer-soh-nah". Accents are funny.

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I say ferrrsohnah in classic Aussie style.


Something I never noticed for a long time is the O sound in many US accents is like Ahh for me.  So Ask Oscar (from Sesame Street) is funny because it sounds like Ask Asker.  There's a good joke built on this in Arrested Development with the lawyer Bob Loblaw because it sounds like Bah blah blah.


Conversely Father sounds like Fother, wheras I say Fahther.  Despite hearing the line Luke, I Am You Father a billoin times I never noticed, now I can't not hear it


I only realise when I Google pronuciation of the name Hobbes and the vowel sound was given as like in Father O.o


And I'm like Hahbbes?  That's not right...


Related topic I find this fascinating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyT2jmVPAk

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Yep. The Chicago/inland northern accent is one of those US dialects that pronounce O as "ah" much of the time. We're a goofy bunch.

That video is kinda funny because all the English accents she does sound the same to me. And with Edinburgh's I can just barely tell the difference, although I have a friend from there but he doesn't sound quite like how she does it.

I need more examples of Scottish accents and word usage and whatnot because my comic takes place there.

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I differentiate all those different accents, but I can't always identify them.  And somethings I just don't know enough to say if I can trust what I'm hearing.  Someone from Lancashire sounds the same as someone from Northumberland to me even when they don't grade into RP (which just makes EVERYTHING sound Londony to me) but I don't know whether it's the same for them as for me.


I have learnt one thing about UK accents, people from their don't tend to know much about them either


I was listening to an Irish accent tonight and I could tell it was Northern, called it seconds before she said she was from Nth Ireland.  So pleased


A Glaswegian told me to her the Edinburgh and Glasgow accents were basically the same but Edinburgh was a bit posher.

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And out of all threads, an Ulfur appears