People outside of America, what do you think of our accents here in the USA?

@ArishMell I loved Mary Poppins as a kid and I still enjoy it as an adult. Dick Van Dyke was trying to do a cockney accent, I believe. I have heard cockney accents in movies before. I agree though, they should have just made him an immigrant from our country😂

It sounds like our country music wouldn't be something you would like listening to because they sing with that drawl that you described😂

There's one regional accent we have (which I won't mention to avoid a flurry of hate comments) that is rough on the ears when I hear it, other than that one I don't usually have an issue with our regional accents and drawls.

@SW-User You find a similar range of tastes in Britain over its regional accents, which change remarkably over very shorts distances (often only tens of miles).

It's not so marked nowadays but a friend from an area called the Black Country, which is now a conglomeration of several towns joined by their suburbs, says at one time someone from, Dudley for example would not understand someone with a strong Walsall accent - these two towns are only a few miles apart!

Am American C&W singer exaggerating his or her own accent, or attempting one from a totally region, is one thing but can sound naff; but a non-American such as a Scot I used to know, trying it, can sound awful!

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My two sisters both saw [i]Mary Poppins [/i]and [i]The Sound of Music [/i]when they were young, and I had to put up with their renditions of the sugar-and-saccharine songs for months afterwards.

I saw the scene on TV, of Dick van Dyke's pretend-Cockney sweep and a troupe of boys cavorting around the wobbly plywood chimney, and I am afraid they did not endear me to the film. Some years ago I listened to a dramatization of the novel, on the radio. It is a strange story, rather dark and nothing like the film. No sweep in it either, but there is a polar bear or something!

[i]The Sound of Music [/i] is not very popular in Austria. It is thought to be unfair about the real family's life. I think I read somewhere that the von Trapps emigrated to the USA and formed themselves into a professional singing troupe, but I have no idea how successful it was or how long that lasted.

it's not only Dick van Dyke who tries imitating a Cockney and sound dreadful. For a while an equally horrible version called "Mockney" was thought cool in Britain, among young people, DJs and the like. It might have been helped by the TV soap-opera [i]Eastenders[/i], which a lot of real London Eastenders don't like because though it does deal with problems found in real life, it concentrates them into unrelentingly depressing view of the area generally.

@reflectingmonkey 😅😅😅 What the hell???

@SW-User 😂😂

@reflectingmonkey I would very much like to hear what that particular accent sounds like😅😅😆

@NankerPhelge Yes we are. I meant our accents as a collective whole.

@SW-User They are OK. I hear a lot of them in movies.