[ssupermegatone]

HEY! We haven't been subjects in well over 200 years.

[mr.nemo]

HEY! We haven't been subjects in well over 200 years.

Wasn't Texas part of the Vice-Royalty of Mexico in 1811? Wasn't Mexico still subject to the Spanish monarch?

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[WelcomeMe]

Hetookderjerbs!

[joOEMcheapSOFTWARE]

Slowwhand is probably an illegal immigrant anglo.

Wrong again. My family arrived in Tennessee in 1796. I'm not sure when the family got to Texas, but fairly quickly. I know they stopped for a bit in Arkansas.

[Menierofe]

We were in the pub last night, and my girlfriend couldn't understand half of what he was saying.

Is she British? I know furriners have real trouble with his accent, but I never have.

[ENGINESSQ]

She is able to speak four languages (passably) but alas not Hullish.

[sbrthrds]

Better than most people, who just talk slowly and loudly at people who can't speak English in the hope it will make a difference.

[Gcromqgb]

Wrong again. My family arrived in Tennessee in 1796. I'm not sure when the family got to Texas, but fairly quickly. I know they stopped for a bit in Arkansas.

Wow, that there is like a who's who of inbreeding states! You sure they didn't start off in Virginia in the first place before migrating to Tennessee...?

[tipokotap]

She is able to speak four languages (passably) but alas not Hullish.

Nor would she want to...

[WeissVine]

Yeah but...



Look at West Virginia!

[Shootohoist]

Albert, do you see the irony of this thread and then going off on one calling all Europeans racist? Do you even know what irony is? Do you see the irony of your username in all this?

[excivaamome]

Yeah but notice Philadelphia is not anywhere in that region.

Yeah, the flat bits of Pennsylvania are occupied by a large low rent ghetto surrounded by hordes Amish and Mennonites and bikers - hardly much of an improvement!

Sounds more like ****ing Mad Max!

What's ironic about the name Al B. Sure! ? Except we all know you as Albert Speer...

[Rounteetepehryn]

Exactly, Albert Speer. And that wasn't the main point. Do you see the irony of calling others racist when you have a thread like this? Or can racism only possibly apply to those of different skin colour?

What? That Discover Ireland commercial ticks me off. Have you seen it? Or are you an Irish lover, PH? Where's that traditional English attitude towards the Irish?

[ZZtop]

My accent isn't that bad...I've managed to make myself understood in many different countries around the world for the past god knows how many years...

You just have to talk a little louder.

Yeah, this:

Better than most people, who just talk slowly and loudly at people who can't speak English in the hope it will make a difference.

[gundorana]

We have vocaroo, PH. Let's hear them pipes

[KinicsBonee]

Here you go Mobius, you can hear my anti-Irish rant in it's full spoken glory!

[gooseCile]

I'd give you an example of the Canadian "out and about" but I don't have a microphone to record with.

edit:

Canadian raising is a phonetic phenomenon that occurs in varieties of the English language, especially Canadian English, in which certain diphthongs are "raised" before voiceless consonants (e.g., /p/, /t/, /k/, /s/, /f/). /aɪ/ (the vowel of "eye") becomes [ʌi], while the outcome of /aʊ/ (the vowel of "loud") varies by dialect, with [ʌu] more common in the west and a fronted variant [ɛʉ] commonly heard in Central Canada. In any case, the /a/-component of the diphthong changes from a low vowel to a mid-low vowel ([ʌ] or [ɛ]).

Individuals who speak with Canadian raising will frequently be baffled by reports that they are being perceived as saying "aboot" or more precisely "a boat". However, such people can note the difference in pronunciation between words with and without Canadian raising: "house" (verb) and "house" (noun), "lies" and "lice", etc.

Perhaps the most common example of Canadian raising in everyday speech is that to non-Canadians "out" is heard pronounced the same as "oat" while to Canadians the two are heard pronounced differently. This means that to a non-Canadian, the vowels in the phrase "out and about in a boat" have all the same sound, rendering them as "oat and aboat in a boat".