Try speaking mostly with American accent and slang more common in the US and then saying daughter in British accent I was taught English pronunciation with an emphasis on RP, but in later years my content consumption lead me to develop my own weird style My uni professor said i sound like a girl from Texas 90% of the time when talking specifically
That’s what I was thinking!!! I had the sound off and he seemed to have an American cadence and formation of certain vowels… the most notable difference (and I do judge actors by this) is British English tends to expose one’s lower teeth on vowels and American English usually exposes bottom teeth on consonants.
@@1vonehrenkrookas a Brit, he seems to sound pretty English to me. I’d be very surprised if he was American as most that I have heard wouldn’t be able to do an English accent that convincingly. From my experience it seems to be a lot easier to do an American accent when you’re English/British than the other way round.
When they literally say anything in an Australian accent as it usually sounds like British mixed with NZ and South African accent lol. It's always the vowels.
____The British "TH" dipthong (it's not really a dipthong) can rarely be achieved by non-native English speaker. The word "THE" is pronounced "ZEE" by most French and German speakers. "DA" by Italian speakers.
Heck, I'm an American raised by an Irish woman living in Northern Ireland and I can't replicate how he says that word. lol Maybe they don't say it at all like the English. lol
I hope they're taking notes because it's so jarring when they mess up one word in fantasy / medieval movies. It totally ruins the whole movie to have American accents in it 😂
Don’t get me started on Aloominum vs Alu *Mini* Um for Aluminum. Let’s just bring up 4th of July and get this over with. 20 Paces let’s go Wanker! On the topic of this video, honestly the way “daughter” is mockingly spoken in this video is probably how the Grandchildren of the First Pilgrims spoke the word. Americans didn’t speak like cowboys or white girls that drink too much Starbucks immediately when they got off the boat folks.
Yep. I grew up in MA. I also don't say "quarter" with a closing R all the time, which is a dead give to my CA friends that I wasn't born there. Ending Rs are a waste of time. ;)
Wrong there no British way saying daughter we have more accents than Americans, a teeside accent is completely different to a Georgie or a pit yakker,makem despite around 100miles between each area and all have different accents and way to say things
He has to mean Tyrion lol. If I'm not mistaken he's the only American in the show and the guy in the video said it happened a lot in GoT@@TrueNorth1217
i think it's like "really" where although it might have originally been "ree-uh-ly", many shorten it to two syllables. "rilly" in american english, "rearly" in british english, i think a similar thing happened with idea
It's neat to find out which word trips up American actors. The dead giveaway word for English actors is "anything". Most of them pronounce it "ana-thing".
@@Sourcoolness I'm not a native English speaker but I could tell that her American accent is off. Like she was trying/thinking too hard and then it was indeed confirmed that she's English. I felt so validated lol
Dah-Ter sounds more Irish lol Edit: I didn’t know this would be that controversial 💀😂 I really just meant how the A sounded not really the T, I know a lot of the dialects/accents in Ireland would drop the T lol
Came here for the Aluminium-aluminum fight. Hope I won't be disappointed.
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If you're American you're gonna be pretty unhappy to hear rhe IUPAC in North Carolina refer to it as 'aluminium' as per the periodic table used globally.
American here. I say "aluminium" and my American father with Australian family members corrects me every time. I also use a lot of commonwealth terms because I have friends/family all over the world, so it makes my life a hell of a lot easier.
@@KayPrescesky Tell pops that the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted "aluminium" as the standard international name for the element in 1990. In 1993, they recognized "aluminum" as an acceptable variant.
All because of a misspelling of the word. Look I'll be honest here, Americans don't speak English, they just simply assassinate it, both in speaking and writing. You can hang, draw and quarter me, but that's it in a nutshell.
I am tripping the absolute hell out, how do English people say the word figure? I know how I say it because I'm American but I don't know how English people say it and I really want to know now
Lol, when we were in florida my husband and I 🧐 would ask for water, and pronounce the 'T' as us brits are prone to do. The floridians thought this hilarious 😂 and compared us to grandma and grandpa pig from pepper pig. ( it's OK we are old and probably ugly too 😂) but mainly because one lady in particular had a granddaughter who loved watched peppa pig shows. And she finds our accent adorable 😍
@mrrrp_ he was talking about in the movies They aint saying dodder in game of thrones. I cant watch anything with a non american accent lol just cant get into it.
Not really. If you listen carefully, he over-pronounces his hard R's a bit much, like basically every English actor trying to sound American. He IS one of the best at it, but it's not 100%
I watched the whole show and I had no fucking idea this man is british.... I mean yeah, english is not my first language... but still. My brother told me right before the final episode aired and I was like 😧
@@kalevipoeg6916i usually notice this exact same thing with anyone trying to do american accent and it annnnoys the shit outa me 😂 but i gotta say,to me his accent is still pretty good, even after knowing he is british i can barely hear this "flaw" but then again english is not my native language at all. 😅😅
Long answer: The pronunciation of the name of the state of Arkansas with a silent final s was made official by an act of the state legislature in 1881, after a dispute arose between the state's two US senators, one of whom favored /ˈɑɹkənsɔː/ and the other of whom favored /ɑɹˈkænzəs/.ɑɹˈkænzəs/ is still common, especially in Kansas, as a pronunciation of the name of the river. Short answer: They voted for it 🤷♂️
He is talking about the difficulty in pronunciation to try and emulate an English accent, he is not saying it is incorrectly pronounced for an American accent. Different accents have different pronunciations, this doesn't make them incorrect. Why miss out the ps in Corpsman? Who cares?
@@ViaticalTree Yes, you hear American actors occasionally make the slip when doing an RP accent. I've encountered it most often in audition reels, but there are a few major roles where it's present - Peter Dinklage in GOT is the first one that springs to mind.
A Song from the 60's: "Mrs.Brown you've gaut a louvely dourter"! I've always wanted to do an English accent but I only managed to follow Herman's Hermits. Thanks Peter NOONE!
It’s so funny you say Americans doing English accents are like generic accents because I always joke with my British friend that Brit’s doing American accents do “the accent from nowhere” where it’s just a generically sounding accent not from any specific place so it’s funny it’s the other way around as well 😂😂
I was just talking about this with my sister! It's something that I couldn't help but be bothered by in the new Ripley series on Netflix because the character is supposed to be from New York but doesn't sound it imo. There's a few other cases where the accent is just so wrong that I can't recall off the top but it is very funny that it's a universal thing 😂
@@scottgillis3692THANKYOU!!! When House first debuted everyone was like “Wow his accent is so great!” and I would ask them “Ok,but where is he supposed to be from? What part of the States sounds like him?” No one could ever answer it. It’s just generic American.
I have a man from no where accent (Like im literally not from any part of America that has an accent associated with it lol) and I moved to London a few weeks ago, hearing people get intrigued by my "accent" is weird because it literally has zero flavor 😂
You do realize our American accent is how British spoke 300/600 years ago. So yes a British king i.e. King James would say: Dah-Ther, Wah-Err, even British actors from 70 years ago would pronounce The Hard R, i.e. Alec Mcguinnes in Oliver Cromwell.
We're going to take this information and use it to improve as a country, until they're just as convinced as we are when one of them does an American Accent.
Same! I heard Emily Blunt talking about how it annoys her that her American husband says water and I think it's the same concept. So I've kept that in mind while doing British accents.
many british dialects use the flat-A in "can't" that americans use - i noticed during my trip to Great Britain - the farther north i went - the more american the pronunciatioun of "can't" became
@@johneyon5257 It still doesn't sound American though. It's a very short, flat vowel sound whereas the American is longer and rounded. Maybe more in the Southern States but generally too.
@@jungatheart6359 - it sounded very american - i was a lifelong american when i traveled the UK - i should know - - and i could distinguish the sounds of american and english - i got good at assuming british accents - at one point - a woman in the midlands said i sounded perfectly english - and a scots lady said "i neer heerd an amerrican do that"
“You would see this a lot in game of thrones.” Well, kind of no. The only main character played by an American who does an English accent is Peter Dinklage’s Tyrion, so I guess you could say you see it a lot in that he’s on the show a lot, but besides some random unnamed extra he’s the only one.
Of all the shows to use as an example, he goes with the one that pretty much only uses English actors unless the character is suppose to be foreign (outside of Tyrion).
When an Englishperson, New Zealander, or Aussie plays an American, the words that screw them up are "our" and "are". EVERY TIME they say it they say it wrong. It's hilarious. Once you hear it, you can't unhear it. There are some that get it right from time to time but they NEVER get it right 100% of the time.
@@Arldavis I think I'm not alone (as an American) in pronouncing "our" in two different ways. Sometimes like "hour" and sometimes like "are". I'm not sure if it's a regional thing or not, but some Southern accents certainly leans towards the "are" end of the spectrum. I haven't noticed a pattern behind when I use which, but I did grow up in Texas and now live on the East coast.
@@jamie_miller in the South it definitely is more prevalent. I was born in Michigan and raised in Tennessee so I'm a bit of a mix, but I always pronounce them differently 😊
As a voice actor, “water” is absolutely hard because the English accent tends to elongate the “w” sound for what seems like a ridiculous length of time when you’re used to the American way.
@@brigadgeneralvoid2508 it’s quite on the spot tbh. It’s only the vowel sound that’s a bit off. If he’d kept the british au but shortened it to the american way, it’d be 98% correct. The last two percents are the r-sound 😅
An American, or at least a Midwesterner, would pronounce it to rhyme with fodder. The American‘s general idea of an English accent tells us that you would emphasize the T more, so, dotter. Vowels really do just matter a little less to us so it gets overlooked I suppose.
I like how the reference is from Game of Thrones when the only actor that that is american and among the main cast that stayed to the end of the show is Peter Dinklage
And the other two Americans who died off didn’t have to use English accents. Pedro Pascal did a Dornish accent as Oberyn which is similar to his native Chilean accent and Jason Mamoa spoke Dothraki as Khal Drogo.
What I love is that this also can show the difference between classical stage training and training for film because on stage, we use “daughter” as one of the sort of like fundamental words to help learn the similar sounding lexical set in Received Pronunciation
Danny McBride still has the best English accent as an American actor. His accent in Your Highness is still studied all over acting schools. A masterpiece.
It’s funny how one word gives it away. With a Canadian vs American accents they’re very similar but there’s a few words that are pronounced differently in most Canadian and American accents that give it away and it’s funny to pick it out
Yes, the word "out" or any word that ends with the suffix -out always gives Canadians away for me. As an Irish person I used to not be able to tell the difference between American and Canadian accents until I found that out, now it's become very noticeable.
@@abbiereynolds8016 If feel like this mostly applies to English Canadians though. French Canadians (including myself) who are fluent in English tend to have a more American English accent. That's what I've observed and experienced so far. When I was in Japan, Americans would assume I was American as well. I know I do have an accent, but I guess it's subtle enough to fool most. 🤣 lol My Japanese friends, coworkers, and students have often mentioned how easy it was to understand my English, but it might just be because I tend to enunciate more my words in general (whether it's in French, English, Japanese, etc.). 😆 lol
@@marie-michellefortier2993That's not really true though, there's a fairly distinct Quebecois accent. Young/Gen Z Torontonians and young English Montrealers(of British descent or Italian, Jewish or otherwise that grew up in a mixed English community) are usually the ones who have the closest to a general American accent, but even then, there are some differences in how words are pronounced.
@@tylersmith3139 I didn't say that there wasn't a Quebecois accent, but that those that were fluent, or should I have specified very fluent as in not only fluent in vocabulary but also with their pronunciation, tend to have an accent closer to the American rather than the English Canadian one. Of course, a lot of fluent Quebecois have a typical accent, but I also know some (like me) who have more of an American accent. I guess it's from watching RUclips videos, movies, series, etc. almost exclusively in English (mostly American English) and from teaching it with Americans. But even before teaching English for 6 years, I studied in Japan on a campus on which 75% of the students were Americans. They thought I was American although I hadn't studied with Americans nor lived in the US before. 🤷🏻♀️ Edit: I'm a Millenial if that makes any difference.
@@redhorsepapiI don’t think he’s saying that American actors literally can’t pronounce it (as in _they are completely incapable of saying the word_ ) he just means that they have a hard time saying it correctly and it’s a common weak point in their attempted British accent
Was watching a TV show where a Canadian actor was playing a southern farm hand and didn't realize he wasn't American until he said "sorry". As soon as I heard him say it I immediately knew he was Canadian and I was proud of myself for catching it 😂
@ROFT I would expect so. To a novice, the two accents sound nearly identical. Similarly, people are constantly confusing my New Jersey accent for a Massachusetts accent or a New York accent.
@@technoredriot1587 bit unfair to compare a city with a state which has different accents. Never heard anyone from Boston ask for cwoffee. They sound a bit like Australians 🤣
@ROFT First of all, never heard an Australian say coffee like a Bostoner. Secondly, I wasn't talking about the cities, I was talking about the state of Massachusetts and the state of New York having accents that are often confused with the accent of the state of New Jersey
Helpful video! However, I would like to note that this pronunciation does occur, albeit rarely. Of the 307 English localities surveyed in the Linguistic Atlas of England (Orton et al. 1978), this pronunciation occurs in 7 of them (or at least did in the 1950s and 60s). You are correct West Country uses an unrounded vowel (kinda like the vowel in Southeastern England “palm”) for “daughter,” but that they tend to say “daadderr” [ˈdaːdəʵː]. The combination of this unrounded vowel and an unreduced t sound is, however, found in at least Alton, Staffordshire (12St3); Checkley, Herefordshire (15He4); Longtown, Herefordshire (15He5); Hanbury, Worcestershire (16Wo3); Bream, Gloucestershire (24Gl3); Whiteshill, Gloucestershire (24Gl4); and Stoke St. Gregory, Somerset (31So10). I used the pre-1974 counties btw. (They also found it throughout Monmouthshire, so maybe the characters in question are supposed to be Welsh, not English)
Not to be the guy who tries to stir up hate but i absolutely love when stuff like this happens. Like the british are so confident they are right about one thing and then they just arent
@@sirkelendor5429, I mean, he is correct that American actors are not achieving the fancy Received Pronunciation target they are going for if they use that vowel
@@jackpaulryan1211 well true, but like there are at least a few english people who do actually pronounce it like that. Granted those towns combined probably equal like 4 dozen englishman. But still he so confidently says of the millions of brits none of them say it like that and then we have a list of towns that just do
@@BigBri7647 You should watch Guy Frieri's Diners, Drive-ins & Dives. Every BBQ joint on every episode pronounces it differently. NONE of which are correct. It's hilarious.
@@Cafeallday222very dependent on dialect. Not many people who speak received pronunciation which is a lot of southerners, will say it like that. We tend to say War-ter
I also noticed a phrase will give it away, when you hear them say it you immediately know they’re not British and it’s fairly simple when you noticed it, and you will not able to ignore it ever since, and the phrase is “ I am a American actor pretending to have a British accent.” you know when you know.😊
Wait till you watch the AI voiced ones. They yap for 95% of the short before anything happens. It's usually mind numbingly bad as well. Atleast this guy sounds decently engaging
@@user-lg3rx2ko5g not at all what I said. They weren't talking about the letter r at all, they were talking about a hard r, which isn't really present in the British accent, hence my joke
great one! on the flip side, i an english actor will say the word “anything” in a very specific accent when playing an american character. at least that’s what i’ve noticed
Southern roots and living in southern New Jersey, I say "daughter" like you. You're right, now I can't unhear it!! haha Another word is "water" which sounds like "wooder".
Im from around Somerset and, while I can picture someone using your first pronunciation in conversation, the second pronunciation feels a lot more natural.
Good to know I've been doing my accent well. I guess that happens when I grew up watching British youtubers from everywhere on that island so I've got a lot of experience with how those accents sound
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This is the perfect time to reveal your true American accent, to bamboozle everyone
Try speaking mostly with American accent and slang more common in the US and then saying daughter in British accent
I was taught English pronunciation with an emphasis on RP, but in later years my content consumption lead me to develop my own weird style
My uni professor said i sound like a girl from Texas 90% of the time when talking specifically
Someone is salty! 😂
That’s what I was thinking!!! I had the sound off and he seemed to have an American cadence and formation of certain vowels… the most notable difference (and I do judge actors by this) is British English tends to expose one’s lower teeth on vowels and American English usually exposes bottom teeth on consonants.
@@1vonehrenkrookas a Brit, he seems to sound pretty English to me. I’d be very surprised if he was American as most that I have heard wouldn’t be able to do an English accent that convincingly. From my experience it seems to be a lot easier to do an American accent when you’re English/British than the other way round.
@@JezzBowden??
The reverse of this in American English is squirrel 😂😂
American pronounce it sqrrrrl not a single vowel used😂😂
@@godish_tv8623damn right brother 😂
This cracked me up 😂 @@godish_tv8623
I just said squirrel out loud a few times and now my cat is looking around the room at 2 am like I'm crazy. 😂
No no. Water bottle. English can’t say, “water bottle” properly.
When they say shrimp in an Aussie show or skit instead of prawn
You know prawns and shrimp aren’t the same thing right?
@@mosalad7176 They're different but "shrimp" in Australia is too rare to be in a skit.
@mosalad7176 you know that prawns are sold 99.999999% over shrimp in Australia right?
When they literally say anything in an Australian accent as it usually sounds like British mixed with NZ and South African accent lol. It's always the vowels.
I hate when they say car, they drag the fuck out of that r where we don't even pronounce it. "Cah"
I love it when my French partner can't say "something" but does his very best by saying "thumbsing" 😂
Ohhhh I love showing French people the song "Theophilus Thistler" by Sonic Animation 😂
____The British "TH" dipthong (it's not really a dipthong) can rarely be achieved by non-native English speaker. The word "THE" is pronounced "ZEE" by most French and German speakers. "DA" by Italian speakers.
Now that's just kind of adorable!
@@lincolnyaco5626 Quebecers say "DA" as well
@@lincolnyaco5626”DE” by most Spanish speakers
American actors bookmarking this video
Actors: "Doo-tuar" got it!
@@ms.pirateDo tuah??
Not me bookmarking it to get better at doing accents in my D&D games
@@Jehiel77 "Translate to English" changes your comment to "Do you have any luck??" lol
Yup!
Thank you for training every American actor for free.
Heck, I'm an American raised by an Irish woman living in Northern Ireland and I can't replicate how he says that word. lol Maybe they don't say it at all like the English. lol
Any American actors here, please take note…if you call someone a twat please don’t replace the “a” with an “o”
@@cheeks8112 that's because twot is an American slang (I think it means the same thing) and twat is the English version.
I hope they're taking notes because it's so jarring when they mess up one word in fantasy / medieval movies. It totally ruins the whole movie to have American accents in it 😂
Don’t get me started on Aloominum vs Alu *Mini* Um for Aluminum. Let’s just bring up 4th of July and get this over with. 20 Paces let’s go Wanker!
On the topic of this video, honestly the way “daughter” is mockingly spoken in this video is probably how the Grandchildren of the First Pilgrims spoke the word. Americans didn’t speak like cowboys or white girls that drink too much Starbucks immediately when they got off the boat folks.
Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson had a hard time saying “psychopath” when they put on American accents for roles
This comment made me look up if Christian Bale was english and today marks the day I found out he wasn't american after all this time
Christian Bale isn't American?!??
@@MrPDTaylorreally? Bale is English, born in Wales
@@shinobi-no-bueno That would make him Welsh then, not English.
@@BizlaC maybe they meant the accent?
funny enough, my new england accent makes me 'daughter' the british way
Same!
And several other NE accents.
Yep. I grew up in MA. I also don't say "quarter" with a closing R all the time, which is a dead give to my CA friends that I wasn't born there. Ending Rs are a waste of time. ;)
Daughter with a British accent and a silent/open "r" ya?
Wrong there no British way saying daughter we have more accents than Americans, a teeside accent is completely different to a Georgie or a pit yakker,makem despite around 100miles between each area and all have different accents and way to say things
I can almost always pick out the Australians playing Americans. One Welshman almost had me completely fooled until he said 'electricity.'
how did he say it
@@IcedPeachTea probably with the beginning being pronounced as ‘ee’ like ‘ee-lectricity’. Americans tend to say elect-tricity
@@IcedPeachTeaidk but probably EE-lectricity with a strong emphasis on the first E sound
Elastic-trickery?
Who was the welsh dude?
Lectric. Welsh hardly pronounce the first e...we say lectiric
Now I just hear Tywin Lannister screaming "DAH-TER"
Do you mean Tyrion?
Yeah charles dance is english
@@Slappys No
He has to mean Tyrion lol. If I'm not mistaken he's the only American in the show and the guy in the video said it happened a lot in GoT@@TrueNorth1217
His pronunciation of Daughter was accurate.
Also, Daughter rhymes with Water in UK English
“idea” always gives it away
i do "i-dee-uh"
@@starsk1ttles I have no ai-dee-urr what you're on about.
i think it's like "really" where although it might have originally been "ree-uh-ly", many shorten it to two syllables. "rilly" in american english, "rearly" in british english, i think a similar thing happened with idea
ee-dee-ya
The word any, is always a giveaway to me
I raise you one Andrew Lincoln screaming "Carl".
“Corl! Where are you, Corl?!!!!” That made me laugh every time 😅
@@lisaprice3373 Lol, I still can't hear the name Carl without thinking about it.
GET BACK IN THE HOUSE CORL
CORAL!
Corral! Corral!
-Carl's Dad
It's neat to find out which word trips up American actors. The dead giveaway word for English actors is "anything". Most of them pronounce it "ana-thing".
Lmao, I literally just commented that. Guess I shoulda read the comments!
I was looking for this comment! I catch it every time.
For the girl who plays Brianna in Outlander, the word was "November". She didn't pronounce the "O".
@@Sourcoolness I'm not a native English speaker but I could tell that her American accent is off. Like she was trying/thinking too hard and then it was indeed confirmed that she's English. I felt so validated lol
My word for true Southern accents vs. imitations is “pie”
Dah-Ter sounds more Irish lol
Edit: I didn’t know this would be that controversial 💀😂 I really just meant how the A sounded not really the T, I know a lot of the dialects/accents in Ireland would drop the T lol
Came here for this comment!
That's racist...
... I'm joking
Even we Irish don’t say that, it always starts with a “daw” sound
@@mobilicorpuswe'd not emphasise the t either
I was just coming here for the exact same Comment
"The rural squirrel twirled the girl."
I remember a running gag in the US series 30 Rock where a new show called Rural Juror never got made because no one could pronounce the title.
@@richardfurness7556 "rurl jerr"
Came here for the Aluminium-aluminum fight.
Hope I won't be disappointed.
If you're American you're gonna be pretty unhappy to hear rhe IUPAC in North Carolina refer to it as 'aluminium' as per the periodic table used globally.
oh it's 100% aluminium
American here. I say "aluminium" and my American father with Australian family members corrects me every time. I also use a lot of commonwealth terms because I have friends/family all over the world, so it makes my life a hell of a lot easier.
@@KayPrescesky Tell pops that the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted "aluminium" as the standard international name for the element in 1990.
In 1993, they recognized "aluminum" as an acceptable variant.
All because of a misspelling of the word. Look I'll be honest here, Americans don't speak English, they just simply assassinate it, both in speaking and writing. You can hang, draw and quarter me, but that's it in a nutshell.
I can’t remember a single instance of an American playing an English character saying ‘daughter’
I was waiting for him to show examples
Tyrion Lannister played by Peter Dinklage, says " Ned Stark's daughters" I think in season 2 or 3 of game of thrones
Turion was from Westeros, not England.
@@ROFTare you dense?
@@ROFT are you dense?
And when an English actor plays an American the word "Figure" trips them up every time
Schedule😂
I am tripping the absolute hell out, how do English people say the word figure? I know how I say it because I'm American but I don't know how English people say it and I really want to know now
@@Jus_Joj I’d have to guess either Figger or Fig-yer
@@Jus_Joj sounds like fig-uh from the times I can remember it said. Think kiara knightly saying it
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Lol, when we were in florida my husband and I 🧐 would ask for water, and pronounce the 'T' as us brits are prone to do. The floridians thought this hilarious 😂 and compared us to grandma and grandpa pig from pepper pig. ( it's OK we are old and probably ugly too 😂) but mainly because one lady in particular had a granddaughter who loved watched peppa pig shows. And she finds our accent adorable 😍
Many Brits eliminate the "t" all together.
They just call water "lead juice" in many parts of the USA.
*we Brits
As an American, I feel ur embarrassment.
How you pronounced daughter in West Country is how my Nan from Gloucester used to say it 🥰
english accent “dawtuh” reminds me of our brooklyn accents
Definitely
There could be a reason for that
Omg yes whenever I go a fake English accent I say it correctly cuz of the Brooklyn accent. I'm actually from queens but it's super similar
I came to the comments to say this! Also how we say water etc
You mean daughter the correct way to say the word...
Yes! They always struggle with “thought” “caught” “taught” and it’s the same sound as the beginning of “daughter”. I’ve never noticed it before!
We don't say "Dotter" in the US either.
@@asommer518 i do lmao and i’m from the US
except i kinda roll it more into “dodder” not so much “doTTer”
And can't
@mrrrp_ he was talking about in the movies
They aint saying dodder in game of thrones. I cant watch anything with a non american accent lol just cant get into it.
We dont speak old English. They also do use caddywhompis on a liverwart morn but thats some doofy ass shit you toast bean eaters say
add the sound of a chainsaw behind dah and you've got the dutch "dochter"
The chainsaw?!?!? 😂
Catching an American spy in England 101 be like
No one was American in game of thrones except Peter Dinklage
That name still sounds Britsh af
Jason Mamoa
@@kma6881 well like… he wasn’t really doing a British accent man
@@pretzels4wetzel743 WELL YOU DID SAY NO ONE ELSE IS AMERICAN
@@BamfIamone bro in the first season slipped my mind fr
Meanwhile Hugh Laurie had em all FOOLED 😂
Not really. If you listen carefully, he over-pronounces his hard R's a bit much, like basically every English actor trying to sound American. He IS one of the best at it, but it's not 100%
There was an episode of House where he pronounced “Garage” in the British way with the stress on the first syllable.
@@archer1949 LMFAOOO IM A DIE HARD HOUSE FAN AND IM GLAD SOMEONE ELSE BROUGHT THAT UP
I watched the whole show and I had no fucking idea this man is british.... I mean yeah, english is not my first language... but still. My brother told me right before the final episode aired and I was like 😧
@@kalevipoeg6916i usually notice this exact same thing with anyone trying to do american accent and it annnnoys the shit outa me 😂 but i gotta say,to me his accent is still pretty good, even after knowing he is british i can barely hear this "flaw"
but then again english is not my native language at all. 😅😅
Huh, interesting. Now point to the ‘F’ in “Lieutenant”
Huh, interesting. Now tell me why the 'S' turns into a 'W' in Arkansas'
Long answer: The pronunciation of the name of the state of Arkansas with a silent final s was made official by an act of the state legislature in 1881, after a dispute arose between the state's two US senators, one of whom favored /ˈɑɹkənsɔː/ and the other of whom favored /ɑɹˈkænzəs/.ɑɹˈkænzəs/ is still common, especially in Kansas, as a pronunciation of the name of the river.
Short answer: They voted for it 🤷♂️
keep being a tsundere for france
@@Chrisyork1989 eh
He is talking about the difficulty in pronunciation to try and emulate an English accent, he is not saying it is incorrectly pronounced for an American accent.
Different accents have different pronunciations, this doesn't make them incorrect.
Why miss out the ps in Corpsman?
Who cares?
dauew-tehh
nailed it.
The giveaway for a UK actor playing an American is "anything"
do they say anyFing?
Bruh I thought I was the only one who recognized that
"annythin"
Or “what” 😂 benedict cumberbatch always has trouble with this word, he always says “hwought”
@@akpokemonor anyting if they're black
You often also hear "elways" for "always".
I’ve never heard anyone from anywhere say it like that. Are you saying Americans say it like that?
@@ViaticalTree Yes, you hear American actors occasionally make the slip when doing an RP accent. I've encountered it most often in audition reels, but there are a few major roles where it's present - Peter Dinklage in GOT is the first one that springs to mind.
@@smartbluecat I’ve watched GOT 3 times and I would have remembered if he said “elways”. Not sure how you’re hearing that.
@@smartbluecat But, why, when nobody says it that way naturally?
honestly it's hard to tell what type of accent Dinklage does
A Song from the 60's:
"Mrs.Brown you've gaut a louvely dourter"!
I've always wanted to do an English accent but I only managed to follow Herman's Hermits. Thanks Peter NOONE!
If you never heard Chrisopher Hitchens imitate a southern accent, you haven't lived.
It’s so funny you say Americans doing English accents are like generic accents because I always joke with my British friend that Brit’s doing American accents do “the accent from nowhere” where it’s just a generically sounding accent not from any specific place so it’s funny it’s the other way around as well 😂😂
I was just talking about this with my sister! It's something that I couldn't help but be bothered by in the new Ripley series on Netflix because the character is supposed to be from New York but doesn't sound it imo. There's a few other cases where the accent is just so wrong that I can't recall off the top but it is very funny that it's a universal thing 😂
Hugh Laurie in house and Benedict Cumberbatch as dr strange sound exactly the same but no one on earth sounds like that but them
@@scottgillis3692THANKYOU!!! When House first debuted everyone was like “Wow his accent is so great!” and I would ask them “Ok,but where is he supposed to be from? What part of the States sounds like him?” No one could ever answer it. It’s just generic American.
I have a man from no where accent (Like im literally not from any part of America that has an accent associated with it lol) and I moved to London a few weeks ago, hearing people get intrigued by my "accent" is weird because it literally has zero flavor 😂
I’ve seen many Indians use both American and English ways of pronunciation in their speech.
Now I'm not going to unhear that.....why benedict?!
Can I also say, awesome name 👌 I named my own child Benedict and he gets so offended when anyone calls him Ben
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I thought the same, but he gave ample opportunity to scroll away...
You do realize our American accent is how British spoke 300/600 years ago. So yes a British king i.e. King James would say: Dah-Ther, Wah-Err, even British actors from 70 years ago would pronounce The Hard R, i.e. Alec Mcguinnes in Oliver Cromwell.
@raymondcasso7966 I'm not British though, I'm Welsh so I have an entirely different accent 😅
I just think of Mr.Tumnas the Fawn saying “you are, a daughter of Eve”
And Lucy saying, “Well, my mum’s name is Helen…”
The reverse is when English actors are playing American actors and they say "INuh-thin" instead of in-ee-theeng 😂😂😊
Your impression of an American doing an English accent sounded exactly like Matt Berry omg
yes, although I think he would say it like "dooooorrrtahr" in reality
Definitely! Garth Marenghi popped into my head straight away 😆
The legend!!
New York citaaaay
Matt Barry is one of my top 5 actors whose speaking voices I wouldn't mind having.
Thanks for helping my English accent get better!
We're going to take this information and use it to improve as a country, until they're just as convinced as we are when one of them does an American Accent.
Same! I heard Emily Blunt talking about how it annoys her that her American husband says water and I think it's the same concept. So I've kept that in mind while doing British accents.
I love that you're appreciate instead of defensive and bitter. ❤
As someone from the West Country, I can attest that we do indeed say “dawt-errrr” 🤣
moi dor'urr is a tra'urr droivurr
I discovered Canadians saying “any-thin”
Reminds me of that time I was putting on an English accent for improv and accidentally dropped a "y'all".
“Can’t” is another good one
I kawn't believe yew've done this
Make em name cars, its really funny
many british dialects use the flat-A in "can't" that americans use - i noticed during my trip to Great Britain - the farther north i went - the more american the pronunciatioun of "can't" became
@@johneyon5257 It still doesn't sound American though. It's a very short, flat vowel sound whereas the American is longer and rounded. Maybe more in the Southern States but generally too.
@@jungatheart6359 - it sounded very american - i was a lifelong american when i traveled the UK - i should know - - and i could distinguish the sounds of american and english - i got good at assuming british accents - at one point - a woman in the midlands said i sounded perfectly english - and a scots lady said "i neer heerd an amerrican do that"
When you said dah-ter it made me think of an Irish accent
I am so glad you are here to inform and guide us all in the spoken word…😅😅….
“You would see this a lot in game of thrones.” Well, kind of no. The only main character played by an American who does an English accent is Peter Dinklage’s Tyrion, so I guess you could say you see it a lot in that he’s on the show a lot, but besides some random unnamed extra he’s the only one.
Of all the shows to use as an example, he goes with the one that pretty much only uses English actors unless the character is suppose to be foreign (outside of Tyrion).
Well, Jason Mamoa didn't speak English on the show, and Pedro Pascal wasn't around long.
My mind went straight to him when he said it.
Dinklage doesn't even do a real English accent in GoT.
@@djoetma I thought he acknowledged that? I mean, he IS American. I honestly felt he sounded like Frasier and Niles.
Kept waiting for him to show some scenes where American actors have done this.
When an Englishperson, New Zealander, or Aussie plays an American, the words that screw them up are "our" and "are". EVERY TIME they say it they say it wrong. It's hilarious. Once you hear it, you can't unhear it. There are some that get it right from time to time but they NEVER get it right 100% of the time.
how are they said in american english?
are they both a sort of “arr” sound or is “our” said like hour?
@@goldenaxolotl9718yep like "ow-wer" but obviously not as stressed
@@Arldavis I think I'm not alone (as an American) in pronouncing "our" in two different ways. Sometimes like "hour" and sometimes like "are". I'm not sure if it's a regional thing or not, but some Southern accents certainly leans towards the "are" end of the spectrum. I haven't noticed a pattern behind when I use which, but I did grow up in Texas and now live on the East coast.
@@jamie_miller in the South it definitely is more prevalent. I was born in Michigan and raised in Tennessee so I'm a bit of a mix, but I always pronounce them differently 😊
Alternate version of when a Canadian actor has to say sorry in a Canadian film
As he first started talking I was guessing it’d be “water”, and I was so darn close lol
As a voice actor, “water” is absolutely hard because the English accent tends to elongate the “w” sound for what seems like a ridiculous length of time when you’re used to the American way.
You were close. Unless I’m mistaken both words rhyme perfectly with each other in both languages.
Wa eh
Dotter is the word and pronunciation here in Swedish, so maybe they watched Vikings or something 😅
Quite different pronunciation though?
@@brigadgeneralvoid2508 it’s quite on the spot tbh. It’s only the vowel sound that’s a bit off. If he’d kept the british au but shortened it to the american way, it’d be 98% correct. The last two percents are the r-sound 😅
An American, or at least a Midwesterner, would pronounce it to rhyme with fodder. The American‘s general idea of an English accent tells us that you would emphasize the T more, so, dotter. Vowels really do just matter a little less to us so it gets overlooked I suppose.
In most places in america, We pronounce it like Dawtter
"Dotter" also is the German word for egg yolk ❤😂❤
Kevin Costner saying Nottingham 😂
"You, brave sir knight, I need you to rescue my doctor."
"A generic southern accent"
*proceeds to say la di da as he adjusts his reading glasses and pours himself some more tea with his crisps*
We have a ton of dialects too, bro.
Please tell me you’re joking…
You do know compasses work in other countries, right? That every country have a north, west, east, and southern part of land?
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@@DrippyVonBlippyJesus loves ya!!
I like how the reference is from Game of Thrones when the only actor that that is american and among the main cast that stayed to the end of the show is Peter Dinklage
Exactly. This dude cappin
And the other two Americans who died off didn’t have to use English accents. Pedro Pascal did a Dornish accent as Oberyn which is similar to his native Chilean accent and Jason Mamoa spoke Dothraki as Khal Drogo.
And Richard Madden didn't hide his Scottish accent either.
Dinklage doesn’t even do a British accent, it’s a Trans Atlantic accent
Little Finger is also American
In Australia we say it like “door-dah” 😂
Now there are thousands of American actors practicing saying daughter with an English accent. 😂
What I love is that this also can show the difference between classical stage training and training for film because on stage, we use “daughter” as one of the sort of like fundamental words to help learn the similar sounding lexical set in Received Pronunciation
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Is “Received Pronounciation” the same as “Mid-Atlantic”? I’ll Google it myself, but I leave the question here in case anyone else is wondering too.
The answer is that RP is one of the parents of Mid-Atlantic, the other being Northeastern American English.
Is it said in the transatlantic accent?
It's not just received pronounciation (RP), it's all of the English accents.
Danny McBride still has the best English accent as an American actor. His accent in Your Highness is still studied all over acting schools. A masterpiece.
I watched a clip of him talking on putting that atrocious accent in front of real Brits and how intimidating that was. I could never.
Was it as brilliant as Kevin Costners Robin Hood?
@@OlafavonGoedingwhy are you people so angry
Or as stellar as Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins
As much as I love him, It's actually Keanu in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
that sounds like us spanish when we first learn english and kids 😭😭😭😭
They have vocal coaches for this reason. It shouldn’t be so noticeable.
With the exception of the Matt Berry dialect
No, that's "FAH-THERRR" 😂
To be fair, he's spent a lot of time in New York CITTTAYYYYY
nEwww yoRk ccItAyyY
@@ajayredonkulus6628I thought he was from Tuscon Arizoña
I was thinking the same thing.
All I hear is Matt Berry when he does his "in chatacter" voice
Haha same
Exactly what I was going to comment.
I was expecting it to be water 😂
“Darter” 😂
Brendan Fraser nails a whole movie in an American accent until he goes 'Surry.' 🤣 I loved him in The Mummy.
It’s funny how one word gives it away. With a Canadian vs American accents they’re very similar but there’s a few words that are pronounced differently in most Canadian and American accents that give it away and it’s funny to pick it out
Yes, the word "out" or any word that ends with the suffix -out always gives Canadians away for me. As an Irish person I used to not be able to tell the difference between American and Canadian accents until I found that out, now it's become very noticeable.
@@abbiereynolds8016 If feel like this mostly applies to English Canadians though. French Canadians (including myself) who are fluent in English tend to have a more American English accent. That's what I've observed and experienced so far. When I was in Japan, Americans would assume I was American as well. I know I do have an accent, but I guess it's subtle enough to fool most. 🤣 lol
My Japanese friends, coworkers, and students have often mentioned how easy it was to understand my English, but it might just be because I tend to enunciate more my words in general (whether it's in French, English, Japanese, etc.). 😆 lol
@@marie-michellefortier2993That's not really true though, there's a fairly distinct Quebecois accent.
Young/Gen Z Torontonians and young English Montrealers(of British descent or Italian, Jewish or otherwise that grew up in a mixed English community) are usually the ones who have the closest to a general American accent, but even then, there are some differences in how words are pronounced.
@@tylersmith3139 I didn't say that there wasn't a Quebecois accent, but that those that were fluent, or should I have specified very fluent as in not only fluent in vocabulary but also with their pronunciation, tend to have an accent closer to the American rather than the English Canadian one.
Of course, a lot of fluent Quebecois have a typical accent, but I also know some (like me) who have more of an American accent. I guess it's from watching RUclips videos, movies, series, etc. almost exclusively in English (mostly American English) and from teaching it with Americans. But even before teaching English for 6 years, I studied in Japan on a campus on which 75% of the students were Americans. They thought I was American although I hadn't studied with Americans nor lived in the US before. 🤷🏻♀️
Edit: I'm a Millenial if that makes any difference.
When Canadian actors in the USA say tomorrow or sorry.
"Dear Knight: I need you to save my...son."
I was thinking Ma'am.
Would be nice to put some of the scenes of such actors saying these words in the show.
Yeah I'm wondering which actors he's talking about. He says GOT but majority of actors in that show are British...
Yeah I'm calling cap. As if there would be something to stop these actors physically from saying the word 'daughter' in an English accent.
@@redhorsepapiI mean actors mess up accents all the time
@@redhorsepapiI don’t think he’s saying that American actors literally can’t pronounce it (as in _they are completely incapable of saying the word_ ) he just means that they have a hard time saying it correctly and it’s a common weak point in their attempted British accent
@@vamvam7690 read the description then
Was watching a TV show where a Canadian actor was playing a southern farm hand and didn't realize he wasn't American until he said "sorry". As soon as I heard him say it I immediately knew he was Canadian and I was proud of myself for catching it 😂
DAWW-tuh. Got it! 😂
'comfortable' is another one
Dah-ter is more of an Irish accent. But even in an American accent, I still say it the same way you did in the video
In the midwest we say "dotter"
Close to what we say in Scotland
@ROFT I would expect so. To a novice, the two accents sound nearly identical. Similarly, people are constantly confusing my New Jersey accent for a Massachusetts accent or a New York accent.
@@technoredriot1587 bit unfair to compare a city with a state which has different accents. Never heard anyone from Boston ask for cwoffee. They sound a bit like Australians 🤣
@ROFT First of all, never heard an Australian say coffee like a Bostoner. Secondly, I wasn't talking about the cities, I was talking about the state of Massachusetts and the state of New York having accents that are often confused with the accent of the state of New Jersey
Helpful video! However, I would like to note that this pronunciation does occur, albeit rarely. Of the 307 English localities surveyed in the Linguistic Atlas of England (Orton et al. 1978), this pronunciation occurs in 7 of them (or at least did in the 1950s and 60s). You are correct West Country uses an unrounded vowel (kinda like the vowel in Southeastern England “palm”) for “daughter,” but that they tend to say “daadderr” [ˈdaːdəʵː]. The combination of this unrounded vowel and an unreduced t sound is, however, found in at least Alton, Staffordshire (12St3); Checkley, Herefordshire (15He4); Longtown, Herefordshire (15He5); Hanbury, Worcestershire (16Wo3); Bream, Gloucestershire (24Gl3); Whiteshill, Gloucestershire (24Gl4); and Stoke St. Gregory, Somerset (31So10). I used the pre-1974 counties btw. (They also found it throughout Monmouthshire, so maybe the characters in question are supposed to be Welsh, not English)
Goddamn, you're the goat for this. The more you know!
Not to be the guy who tries to stir up hate but i absolutely love when stuff like this happens. Like the british are so confident they are right about one thing and then they just arent
@@sirkelendor5429, I mean, he is correct that American actors are not achieving the fancy Received Pronunciation target they are going for if they use that vowel
@@jackpaulryan1211 well true, but like there are at least a few english people who do actually pronounce it like that. Granted those towns combined probably equal like 4 dozen englishman. But still he so confidently says of the millions of brits none of them say it like that and then we have a list of towns that just do
@@sirkelendor5429, I agree! Acknowledging linguistic diversity is very important to me, hence why I did this mini research project :)
Sounds like an English - New Jersey accent! 😂
I was thinking, "Maybe in Cornwall."
I always notice the word “been” (“bin” vs. “bean”) as a dead giveaway. The word “not” is also an easy one for actors to miss.
Who says bean? That's an entirely different word.
@@SpidermanandJeny Several British dialects pronounce it “bean.”
@@songbirdyy how unexpected.
I pronounce it both ways
@@SpidermanandJeny We do. 'been' and 'bean' are homophones in Australian English.
"worcestershire sauce".
I know Poms who can't say Worcestershire sauce.
People in Massachusetts *definitely* know how to say that.
"wash-your-sister sauce"
Still chuckling about that clip of the woman pronouncing it 'Roy's sister sheree' sauce 😂
@@BigBri7647 You should watch Guy Frieri's Diners, Drive-ins & Dives.
Every BBQ joint on every episode pronounces it differently. NONE of which are correct. It's hilarious.
Okay I actually did not know that. Fascinating.
I noticed that when Kevin Costner played Robin Hood
Hearing an English person say "privacy" in an American accent is sometimes a giveaway!
They can't say LIT-ER-ALL-LY
they say lit-tra-ly
I say privacy sometimes like the way they do lol
For me it’s when they say “water”. They say “wad-duuuuuur”
@@Cafeallday222very dependent on dialect. Not many people who speak received pronunciation which is a lot of southerners, will say it like that. We tend to say War-ter
For me it’s names ending in “a.” They have a HARD time not putting an “r” on the end of those suckers.
Man you strung this video out
I also noticed a phrase will give it away, when you hear them say it you immediately know they’re not British and it’s fairly simple when you noticed it, and you will not able to ignore it ever since, and the phrase is “ I am a American actor pretending to have a British accent.” you know when you know.😊
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Tbh if I’m not sure I just search up the actor and it becomes clear as day lol
And for a short that's saying something, lol!
Wait till you watch the AI voiced ones. They yap for 95% of the short before anything happens. It's usually mind numbingly bad as well. Atleast this guy sounds decently engaging
lol I thought it was going to be “water” but close enough
Memory has been updated.
This is where growing up watching a bunch of British youtubers comes in clutch.
We took the hard R with us, when we set sail, and you're never getting it back.
We don't want it back, it sounds weird
@@kingcobraarchie so don’t use the letter?? Do you think ‘r’ is silent archie💀
Bloody stay there you are.. bo one misses you
-MANIAC LAUGHS IN SPANISH SPEAKER-
@@user-lg3rx2ko5g not at all what I said. They weren't talking about the letter r at all, they were talking about a hard r, which isn't really present in the British accent, hence my joke
I need you to rescue my DOCTOR 😂
I’m a quarter of the way through this short, do I finish it and ruin my immersion forever or keep scrolling 😂
Conversely, I noticed that the word "idea" gives some actor's orgins away.
"Idear"
I’ve noticed a lot of British actors can’t say “anything” in an American accent. They always slip with “en-uh-thing”
great one! on the flip side, i an english actor will say the word “anything” in a very specific accent when playing an american character. at least that’s what i’ve noticed
Southern roots and living in southern New Jersey, I say "daughter" like you. You're right, now I can't unhear it!! haha Another word is "water" which sounds like "wooder".
American actors about to play English characters: Write that down! write that down!
Benedict Cumberbatch trying to say penguin 😂
And what is wrong with the way he says pinwing?
@@jethrobradley7850 🤣🤣
No you are right . I live in the South West. Tiz er that comes often , and tiz er that dam well will stay . And tiz er that will not buggier off.
You brave Sir Knight, I need you to rescue my Doctor
Im from around Somerset and, while I can picture someone using your first pronunciation in conversation, the second pronunciation feels a lot more natural.
Somerset too.
It's no coincidence that West Country is the closest - if you know where American accents are derived from...
Hark at ee! When I first visited Somerset in the mid-70’s people would refer to “the maid” short for maiden
Good to know I've been doing my accent well. I guess that happens when I grew up watching British youtubers from everywhere on that island so I've got a lot of experience with how those accents sound
That unlocked 22 memories
Irish maybe?
Also the voice you used for the dialogue sounded like Matt berry! 😂
I thought you were gonna say "schedule" but this is solid 💀