good choice - well the irish part anyway!

Now I'm English, but there's a huge variation in accents across England, so it's funny to hear people saying they like the "british accent".

I have a kind of fairly neutral well-spoken british accent (a bit of a cross-between mild cockney and upper class queens english with a dash of Uk midlands) due to growing up in the south of England just outside London, but I also lived in Birmingham in the midlands of the UK for several years - and the Birmingham accent (brummie) can be pretty unintelligible at times, and is normally voted worst accent in the UK (no offense to any brummies out there).

So in the US you say "Hi, how are you today?" (at least in Seattle they do!)

In Birmingham (West Midlands) it would be "Hiya Bab, ow's it gewing" (trying to spell it like it sounds!)

In Leicester (East Midlands) it's "Alright me duck, how ya doing"

I use the term "mate" a lot for someone I know well.

Are there any terms like "mate", "Bab" or "me duck" that only get used in certain parts of the US?

In the US for the most it is not so much the words used but the intonation and accent. In the midwest we 'd say "howsit goin'?" but hi how are you today is also said - it's the formal or polite, and that's goin to be tru almost anywhere in the US/ there are some vaiations on terms - in the midwest people say "pop" and "sub" instead of "soda" and "hoagie" ...and from Ohio south through KY and Tenn, the infinitive verb is often not used-both in formal and informal speech: "The car needs washed" for example (and actually mine does )

Certain accents- like in Louisiana or "ghetto" speak have whole different sets of rules because they are a patois from non english speaking countries (France, African nations, Haiti) -"hey wazzup" it's "cool" in some social circles to speak ghetto - I undertand most of it but speak it rarely

Holly has the cutest accent! Ohhhh mama!!!

How YEW doin'?

Let me try: "How YEW doing" ;-) (imagine english bloke trying to copy Joey)

Hmmm, that doesn't work so well in typed text...

Down in southwest England Cornwall they'd say "Alroight moi lover!" (mainly between sexes!). Trying saying it like a pirate and you'll just about getting the tone right.

Oh Jess...I know exactly what Aussie Chicks sound like..."MghARPLEGUMPFFF...GAHHK...GAAHHKKKK...Slurpityslurpity GAHHHHHKKKKK"



an emu chick perhaps!!!....hahahha!...but certainly not any self respecting female aussie woman...

more like..."KeeeRRRACK!!!!...On your knees BOY!!!...KeerrrACK!!!"....(we like our bullwhips)


Now what in the hell would I want a self-respecting woman for?!?!?!?! Certainly not for anything I would enjoy.

Ohhhh careful with that bull whip honey...here, let daddy put it up on the top shelf so you will be safe and wont get any owwies....Now (patting you on the butt) Go play with your Barbies Honey.

hehehehehehe

hm i love an irish accent!
but english isn't half bad.

In the US for the most it is not so much the words used but the intonation and accent. In the midwest we 'd say "howsit goin'?" but hi how are you today is also said - it's the formal or polite, and that's goin to be tru almost anywhere in the US/ there are some vaiations on terms - in the midwest people say "pop" and "sub" instead of "soda" and "hoagie" ...and from Ohio south through KY and Tenn, the infinitive verb is often not used-both in formal and informal speech: "The car needs washed" for example (and actually mine does )

Certain accents- like in Louisiana or "ghetto" speak have whole different sets of rules because they are a patois from non english speaking countries (France, African nations, Haiti) -"hey wazzup" it's "cool" in some social circles to speak ghetto - I undertand most of it but speak it rarely

I have to admit, a woman with a Scottish accent can sound very sexy.
If I was with one, I'd have to call her "mae hen" just like the Scotsman I used to work with.

scottish women please place your ad here !

Well, personally I'm a sucker for Jamaican accents.