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I'm now wondering which accent from a former English colony sounds most annoying and unattractive to the English, American, Australian, Canadian, Caribbean or perhaps another? I find it interesting how a few years of being isolated from England changes how people speak the language.
I'm going to take a wild guess here, but I'd say the American accent especially harsh ones like from the Northeast are at the top of the list to be despised by the British. When I used to travel for work to the UK and continental Europe many people thought I was Canadian for whatever reason even though I am from the northeast/mid atlantic. Part of it was because I wasn't acting like an *ss like many Americans they'd encountered.
And me, is my, so it's me house, or me car, rather than my house, or my car.
Never heard axe for ask, thought that was an Ebonics thing. Or may be I'm just posh.
Obviously posh, and college educated Gungnir. Unlike me who left school at 14.......
It's me birthday you see. Born in August, so started school at 4 years and a few weeks. Some kids in my class were born in the previous September. So, they left school in July, almost 16 years old, with me almost 15 years old.
I don't think I was supposed to leave really, as the official leaving age in those days was 15. I didn't say anything, and I don't think anybody noticed....... My first week at work, I was still 14 years old.
They increased the leaving age to 16, a few years after I left, so all kids took 'O' Level exams in that last year. Nowadays, most kids stay on to a minimum 18 to take further exams, and a huge number go on to university. Back in my day, only posh kids went on to university.
we're probably about the same then, I joined school at 5 years old, no nurseries back then, and I left at 15 well just before my 15th birthday actually and started work a couple of weeks after it, nobody I know went to university we all left school and went into paid work.
experience was deemed more useful than a scrap of paper.
we're probably about the same then, I joined school at 5 years old, no nurseries back then, and I left at 15 well just before my 15th birthday actually and started work a couple of weeks after it, nobody I know went to university we all left school and went into paid work.
experience was deemed more useful than a scrap of paper.
Yeah, it was a different world when I left school. Out to work you went, and had to pay your way at home for your keep.
I only saw folks who went to university in films...... Still, we got a good education in those years we actually went.
I have told this story before, but maybe not here. I saw a telly show a few years ago, that was real interesting.
They got a group of modern kids to have a 1950s education for a month. At the end of that, they were given an exam to take. These kids had a very high opinion of themselves. Good exam results in whatever they take these days at 16.
So, they had no calculators, or any modern device to hand. All they had was the teachers, and their brains. At the end of the months instruction, they took the exam. I think there were about 35 kids taking it, and only about 7 passed. It turned out these so called educated kids were taking the 11 plus from 1955. The exam that 11 year old kids took in 1955, most of them failed at 16.
It was a sobering experience for them. Not quite as smart as they thought they were.
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My first week at work, I was still 14 years old.
