British Accent

The most bizarre phrase I've heard is "a stone cold bonker cert" which means a sure thing. Also, "muck ups" and "cock ups" are mistakes.

As far as the accent goes, it would help me a lot if the British would pronounce their R's!

Brits especially those in England have a difficult time speaking prop'a English, all I suppose because of regional dialects.

You know its generally easy to pick out a mid American [accent] from a Canadian one by just asking someone to say the words 'carrot' & 'mirror' ... its the 'R's'

A brit english person would say them as caw'rut & mirra. Also, dont forget to parse (pass) the shuga (sugar)

I have found that you can always tell if someone is faking a Brit English accent by simply asking them to say the two words together 'her hair' - it comes out sounding like 'hur hur'

As far as the slang goes - anyone including a well tuned Canadian ear even after 10-years living in the UK you'll still hear another one that you have never heard before.

Also, depending on the persons age & the region that you're in - the words & phrases are as far as wide by a long mile by age of the person speaking them

Re pronouncing R's - they are still pronounced in something approaching north American style in certain parts of the UK e.g. the south-west, Northern Ireland, much of Scotland, but rhoticity (the pronouncing of R's) pretty much died out in all other regions at least a century ago never, I suspect, to return!

Oh good, because I'm going to the Scottish Highlands for 6 days next week, my first trip to Scotland. What I'd love to know though, is why can't my husband pronounce the R's that do exist in words while he can insert R's where there are none? Example: Canader is arwsome!