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Imitating London accents

dropping of the vowels that's what the extending that's uh which isn't quite eastenders i've lived there but yeah yes nice you're a good uh good impressionist i think can you do...

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

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feature the

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dropping of the vowels that's what the

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extending that's uh

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which isn't quite eastenders i've lived

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there but yeah

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yes nice you're a good uh good

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impressionist i think can you do an

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irish accent

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i have to be sure

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course what accent would you say you

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have

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i don't think i have an accent i have a

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very what they'd say a middle english

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accent so it's not really anything it's

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no nothing that you could identify where

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i'm from from the way i speak probably

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right

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i would think not too northern not too

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southern

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no i don't have do you think i have an

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accent uh

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it's hard how would you say

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um

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the thing that you um wash yourself in

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not that's not a shower a bath yes yeah

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when yorked too it would be bath yeah i

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know that's like pronunciations but i

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would sort of

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that would make me sort of think you

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tend towards the southern accent i guess

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would you actually prefer that you had a

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uh

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i was gonna say spice in your in your

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terms yes i i would love to have an

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accent that gives me

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another layer to my being

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when they look at me it's like oh yeah

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and then i speak and then it takes them

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by surprise right

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so i i would like an accent that

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surprises people

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um so they have to do a double take to

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make

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