heehee, you would've been right in the UK. it was like standard Uni accent with flat vowels. But now I sound American to most Brits (and still Brit/Aus to most Americans), but it doesn't take me long back in the company of Brits for me to slide back a bit. I guess I mostly have American vocab, cadence and intonation with a Brit accent. :lol:

Yes- I make UT sound like Mickey Mouse in my head. :D

Sugarpop sounds like the good witch Glinda from the Wizard of Oz, to me. Not a bad thing...I always looked forward to seeing her in the movie when I was a kid. :)

I can confirm that monster and Beest both sound British to my ear, but your kids sound American--except for one moment, when Hebe said "pasta" as if it rhymed with "master" and it caught me totally offguard.

I was shocked to hear clodfobble's training clip. sounds just like those ladies in those training clips!

lj and ut sound like phillia's. Pure. Philly. Accent.

How should pasta sound? :)

Don't they say it with a short 'a'? A few people use that pronunciation over here, but mostly it's a long 'a' like you lot in the UK.

well...we don't all pronounce it with a long 'a' here. It varies regionally. I pronounce it with a short 'a'. Well...not quite as short as a full on northern accent.

Hmmmm...very interesting. :eyebrow:

here, the first syllable of pasta usually rhymes with car. :rolleyes: I would say the brits pronounce the first syllable to rhyme with fast, but as some yanks would give that two syllables (fay-ast) so that doesn't help :lol:

Clod, the "master" comparison doesn't always work either because some brits (southern pooftahs) would pronounce that to rhyme with American "pasta" and some (northern bastards) wouldn't :lol:

teh cellar: we can argue about pasta!


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pasta rhymes with rasta ...farian

Well that's got two pronunciations too where I live. Some say the first a short and others long.

poor old Hebe, she didn't know we were dicussing her on here, but just said out of the blue "everyone on the bus laughed at me today because I said Vitamin (vitt-a-min) not Vye-da-min".

so I said "That's OK, everyone on the cellar is laughing at your pronounciation too" :lol: