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Any words or phrases you always say in a foreign accent?

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A580Hojas · 03/10/2018 20:39

By foreign accent I mean foreign to you, obviously, before anyone gets the arse about accents being foreign.

For example, I always say fillum instead of film because I just love that and it probably harks back to my boyfriend from Northern Ireland who I lived with for a few years. I also always say Norn Iron.

And I also always have to say Stonehenge as they say it in Spinal Tap, eg exaggerated mockney accent "Stunenngge". It does come up surprisingly often in conversation for me as I go up and down the A303 a fair amount.

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ComeOnGordon · 04/10/2018 06:06

When you drive as a tourist in Austria you need a Vignette for your car to go on the motorway. Even tho we’ll then be in Austria I pronounce Vignette in a weird French accent. It looks like a French word to me

AnarchyKitty · 04/10/2018 06:22

Booooteful in a crap northern accent here. Think it was off an advert when I was growing up.

MissDai5y · 04/10/2018 06:34

Fuckin-boooooooo in a Scottish accent. Can't remember the comedian that said it but it just sounds perfect.

FixItUpChappie · 04/10/2018 06:38

I always say "Monkey" in a specific English accent...like the lady with all the pets on Peppa Pig. I can't remember quite when it started but I refer to my children this way all the time HmmGrin

Charley50 · 04/10/2018 06:49

Great thread! Ive got loads but it's v early. I've taken to saying 'murder' in a Scottish accent because it sounds so good.

TheCrowFromBelow · 04/10/2018 06:55

YouWereRight we do 10 years later in a French accent, a la Spongebob, usually whilst waiting for the laptop to start.

Conseulabananahammock · 04/10/2018 06:57

Gilet ..😂

echt · 04/10/2018 07:14

AnarchyKitty here it is. Norfolk rather than northern:

AnarchyKitty · 04/10/2018 07:22

echt
That's the one!!!

Sitranced · 04/10/2018 07:57

Hullo in Scottish accent.

ShatnersBassoon · 04/10/2018 08:01

I can't say bomb without doing a Clouseau.

Munchmallow · 04/10/2018 08:16

Oh yes, meuth, minky and buemb a la Clouseau Grin

I can't say Birmingham without a brummie accent (and I'm Scottish!)

And 'wadding cack' like Franck.

fussychica · 04/10/2018 08:20

Could fill the whole thread. Most are words and phrases from comedy programmes like the Fast Show or Allo, Allo, in the accent in which they were said and are too numerous to mention but you all know them.
£1.60 please with eastern European accent a la Harry Enfield sketch
Spirit is always said as if we are Arsene Wenger "spirwit"
Murder definitely Scots
Darling posh or Za Za Gabor "Darlink"
SLAG - harsh Cockney from Eastenders

Thinking about it I wonder if I even speak in my own accentGrin

fussychica · 04/10/2018 19:01

Oh no I killed the threadBlush

CallMePea · 04/10/2018 19:11

Not exactly foreign, but I can't seem to say the words "I don't know" without it being in a northern/Sheffield accent.

SpoonBlender · 04/10/2018 21:39

"Ooh I knooooooow" in Sybil Fawlty.
"Bermigam" and "Dudley" in Birminghese
"Fack off you caaaaaant" in Eastender
"Arse! Feck! Drink!" in Craggy Islander
"E's not wurf it Sharon!" in Chavette
"Je ne sais pas" in the original French with a proper Gallic shrug

SpoonBlender · 04/10/2018 21:39

"Cheese!" in proper Wallace, with the hand movements too

CaptainKirkssparetupee · 04/10/2018 21:42

Christopher Lambert, i say his name as Christophe Lamber, nobody knows who i am talking about but that is how he says his own name.

hugoagogo · 04/10/2018 21:46

'Cheeps and feesh' as the frog says in Flushed away ( I do know that's not a real accent)Grin

GoodbyeSummer · 04/10/2018 22:05

Whenever I say ratatouille I then say, in my very best Spanish accent, "He put Basil inna rrrratatouille?!"

If I ask if someone is OK with something, I ask, "Alright?" in a Brummy accent.

GoodbyeSummer · 04/10/2018 22:11

If I have to tell someone that I know nothing about something, I say it like Manuel: "I know naaaathing! Naaaathing!"

MsJolly · 04/10/2018 22:17

Mange tout my friend, mange tout...channeling my best Delboy.
Homboogerrrr...Inspector Cleuseau!

Charley50 · 04/10/2018 22:29

@fussychica - lol you can relax it's come back to life..

'Yeah I know' is always said like the Little Britain character.

'Its nice,' I always say like an elderly Greek lady.

I like saying 'Dudlaaay' in a Brummie (or Dudley) accent but don't often have a reason to say it.

Anyway, I've probably killed the thread now.

Ohyesiam · 04/10/2018 22:37

Gazebo must be said with a flat Australian accent, always.

Go on try it, it’s so satisfying.

ScattyScorpian · 05/10/2018 00:22

'Tunder' and lightning...proper Irish style!