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First of all, the reason it is referred to as a British accent is because although there are many different British dialects, they can all be distinguished from our own set of American English dialects.

Technically, there are 43 British regional accents so you can't expect Americans, or even Brits themselves to be able to identify them all and specifically refer to someone as having a "Essex" or "Queens English" etc...

But then again, according to your logic, there is no such thing as an American accent either because there are many different dialects of American English as well..

The main accents/dialects in the US are New Englander, Mid-Atlantic, Southern, Midwestern, Upper Midwestern, Western, Northwestern and Californian, but there are many, many more that are spoken to a lesser degree.

So you're being a hypocrite.

Everyone in England has a different accent too. Northern people sound very different to Southern, and everybody just basically sounds different.

But then again, according to your logic, there is no such thing as an American accent either because there are many different dialects of American English as well..

My topic is nothing to do with the various American accents, it's about the use of the term 'British accent'. So what you've said actually has nothing to do with it.

Calling an English person's accent British is like calling an American's accent a North American accent.
W don't expect you to know every regional accent and dialect, like you shouldn't expect us to know every accent from all of the different states, but at least we can make a distinction between Canadian, USA and Mexican accents.

At 5/13/07 08:42 AM, Fyndir wrote: It's more like calling a Texan's accent American.

Your example (American's accent North American) would be like calling a British person's accent European.

Your probably right, but I can't be arsed to think about it.
One things for sure, if there weren't so many different words to describe these two shitty islands, then there'd be a hell of a lot less confusion.

At 5/12/07 12:53 PM, Sidorio wrote: ...British accent.

I'm tired of Americans (mainly the eighty or so of them staying in my school for a week) and other people saying British accent. Great Britain consists of...

But yet we don't say Great British accent. Britain, aka England is a part of Great Britain so that's what we mean. We also say Irish accent, Scottish, Welsh, etc.

So you want us to call it an English Mainland accent?

At 5/12/07 02:55 PM, simple-but-sandy wrote:

At 5/12/07 01:02 PM, AshfordPride wrote: I'm sure you've said "American accent" more than your fair share.

No, I jsut usually say "retarded accent" and be done with it.

Oh no he didn't!

In america we have pretty much every accent, so if you call it a "retarded accent" then your calling a lot of accents retarded...probably yours too

At 5/13/07 09:01 AM, Fyndir wrote: Britain is not the same as England though, England is PART of Britain, the same way Washington is part of the USA.

Isn't Britain just the wrong word for Great Britain?

At 5/12/07 12:56 PM, Bekan-the-Fearsome wrote: Ok... you're a complete retard. Britain is England.

... no it isnt. Britain is: England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. No Shit. and don't fuck with a Geordie (even though I'm from Essex). teh brits rule, the Queen aint fat.

but America is :)

At 5/13/07 09:08 AM, TamiyaGuy wrote: ... no it isnt. Britain is: England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. No Shit.

That's the British Isles.

At 5/13/07 09:08 AM, TamiyaGuy wrote:

At 5/12/07 12:56 PM, Bekan-the-Fearsome wrote: Ok... you're a complete retard. Britain is England.

... no it isnt. Britain is: England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. No Shit. and don't fuck with a Geordie (even though I'm from Essex). teh brits rule, the Queen aint fat.

but America is :)

look we both know that america and the Queen have had their equal share of fat in their diets, so lets drop that argument.

At 5/13/07 06:12 AM, cellardoor6 wrote:

Technically, there are 43 British regional accents so you can't expect Americans, or even Brits themselves to be able to identify them all and specifically refer to someone as having a "Essex" or "Queens English" etc...

There are mor than 43 British Regional accents, there are 43 English Accents.

But your right it would be very hard to identify some accents from others as some are very similar, What the problem is, is the fact that Americans steriotype all British as either Speaking 'the queens english' or Cockney. When they both only make up about 6% of the population.

Queens english or 'Received Pronunciation' isnt even a regional accent. Its an accent which was basically invented and used by the upper class. You don't get an area which they speak Received pronuciation, Its spoken by the Upper class.

What we don't like is being steriotyped as upper class pricks like hugh grant. Or that were all cockney wankers.