Ha ha, there are definately British rednecks. There are rednecks everywhere in my opinion. There certainly were where I grew up in Canada. Nothing wrong with that either.

Having lived in England for the last 13 years I haven't noticed any infatuation with American accents myself. There are obviously many local accents and dialects here as you know. Newcastle 'Geordies' sound very different from Scottish people not at all far away. The Geordies sound very different to the Brummies, the Brummies sound different to Londoners, the cockney Londoners sound different to people from Cornwall and Somerset and so on. Even where I live there's a distinct accent that doesn't fit with anything else, 20 miles up the road in Corby people have thick Scottish accents even though thesedays most of them were born in Corby not Scotland. A bun is a roll in Northampton, it's a cob where my wife comes from, it's a bap in some places and anywhere you go you'll get funny looks when you ask for the wrong one. That's what keeps it interesting to me.

I love hearing the Northampton accent or any accent for that matter. People here say Ta da instead of good bye, 'Me duck' and 'sausage' is an affectionate name to call people. The sad thing is it's more and more the older people you hear with broad accents thesedays. Younger people are adapting a more universal accent thesedays, it's a more street sound than traditional I'd say. An 18 year old from London won't sound that different to an 18 year old in Northampton now as they tend to generally use the same slang. Words like 'innit' and saying 'yeah' a lot for no reason similar to valley girls saying 'like' and 'whatever'. It's more an Ali G approach to language here thesedays, even my 7 year old lad is sounding more street each day due to hearing his mates at school. Shame really as I enjoy all the diversity here when it comes to accents.

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