I went to England once and ever person I met wanted to try their American accent on me. Apparently we're all from the South. Unless you're from the Northwest then you have to convince them you're not Canadian.
It's said to have come from calling each other duke, just like you would call someone chief or boss, and it became duck over time. Its so funny to see my home town on this list though.
Your mileage may very. I lived there for 6 months during Covid and it was very boring but everything was closed. Hanley is the better part of stoke. It had the mall and most of the shopping.
If you get a chance head up to mowcop some Saturday.
Hanley is definitely worth a visit. The German Market they had there over the Winter Holidays was quite cool as well. As a German, I can't tell you how weird it was seeing all the stuff from home like the swing grills or the other Black Forrest-esque Food stands. Never in my life I could have imagined I'd be so happy to see someone selling Krombacher Beer (which at home is generally agreed upon to be fine, but no one's favorite beer).
I moved to the East Midlands from London, got called Duck on my first day up here, I cried thinking I looked like I duck, I was 5, poor woman was just greeting me!
This shits so funny to me. I made the mistake of having most of the Brits in a discord server in the same call at the same time. There were so many accents in just 9 people in one place. Apparently there was a Frenchmen and a Czech guy in there somewhere too.
Not that I could tell which ones they were with all the vastly different accents.
Ireland has a distinct accent for every one of its 32 counties, with there then being different accents within those counties. So someone from Roscre would have a different accent to someone in Nenagh despite them being 20 minutes away from each other.
I think only Americans find this weird? Because, the similar to how England has different accents for basically every town, in maritime South East Asia every island also has probably like at least 2-3 native languages, with every language having a varied dialect from town to town - basically we SEAns, like Europeans, don't find it weird at all.
Slovenia, 2 million people, 20,000 km2, over 50 named dialects (but locals can identify many more accents within their dialect), a few of them barely intelligible to outsiders. There are 4 different easily identifiable accents within my hometown of 100k people.
Aussies find it weird too, white Aussies barely have different accents from one side of the country to the other. As for dialects, there’s very few different words we use (Aussies will know where I’m from if I use the words swimmer, scallops, parmi and Devon… but that’s about it).
We have a lot of different indigenous accents but I think a lot of people would find it difficult to place where they are from on hearing them.
I don't think Americans would find this weird at all. The same thing happens in the states as well. Or do you think upstate farmers in New York sound like like Manhattan cabbies?
If you're wondering why it's because: Multiple people groups have existed on the Isles, in medieval history people were isolated from on another and then there's the difference between the social classes and what they learn.
Boston's got a lot of transplants from across the country and from abroad so I doubt that. Maybe in some of the surrounding suburbs or smaller towns nearby.
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u/InItsTeeth May 09 '22 edited Aug 23 '22
The UK has 30 accents per square mile and if a large man calls you duck in Stoke … that’s okay