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Describing a Brighton accent

somewhere like Chelsea and I sound like I will say Brighton and I will drop and I will say you drop the team if you had to describe rights and how would you describe it oh um la...

Course: Accents and language differencesSection: British and American accentsSubtitles: en

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you take me to

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somewhere like Chelsea and I sound like

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I will say Brighton and I will drop and

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I will say you drop the team if you had

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to describe rights and how would you

2:35

describe it oh

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um

2:39

lazy accent I guess

2:44

I cut my teeth in East London in Tower

2:48

amnes I was a teacher a kids who would

2:50

speak really fast and have a lot lots of

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things and all the vowel sounds were

2:54

really sort of widened and really

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stretched out do you have a favorite uh

2:59

not not really no I'd say I'd say the

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New York accent is probably well New

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York would probably be okay the most

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familiar to me and is that your favorite

3:08

American accent

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yeah I always I would say so yeah it's

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better than the old Hillbillies down in

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the southern part Southern States and

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stuff like that have you been to America

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Florida and New York and California so

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my dad worked for an American company

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so both my mum and dad did at one point

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so they would say Caribbean instead of

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Caribbean have you been to America

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before yeah I've been to America a few

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times actually luckily for me which is

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great been to New York and uh California

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and traveled around but I love movies so

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you know

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