House (Hugh Laurie) slips into English accent

'Diplomer in diyapas'. As you may know, Hugh Laurie is English. He hides his accent very well.

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• Accent
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• Laurie

[4LackOfaBetterNam3]

@09cansucancan this video is retarded. the actual accent remains american, but the stress is english.

[bassplayeroceanside]

@Vulgarth1 Really? You dont notice the adding of -er to a word ending in "a" as being English accent? Diplomer? Cockney English to be precise?

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@darkpdxwolf Seth MacFarlane had Peter Griffin say -er at the end of some words ending in -a. And Peter sounds like he's from NJ.

[joelmarsbar134]

@bassplayeroceanside cockney english my arse, the english pronounce it "er" because thats how its bloody pronounced

[Binerexis]

@bassplayeroceanside In cockney, it sound closer to adding an 'h' on the end rather than replacing the 'a' with 'er'.

[AliciaHarnois]

@AliciaHarnois Ran out of space. Google "intrusive r" for a better explanation.

[AliciaHarnois]

@bassplayeroceanside Some aspects of New York/Jersey accents will change the pronounciation like that. When having 'and' preceeded by a word ending with 'a', it's quicker and smoother to change the 'a' to 'er'. Hense, 'diplomer and diapers'. Say both and feel which flows quicker. It's a similar idea to how French treats words ending in consonents. This might be a holdover from the UK, but is apt for American accents as well; and since House is from New Jersey, it works.

[Snortthesweetener]

@madric cornwall is still a county buddy, no independence yet.

[Snortthesweetener]

the english pronunciation in most regions americans are familiar with (ie cockney and received pronunciation) place a lot more emphasis on the A. more DiploMAH than DiploMUR.

[JohnReynoldsComedy]

@bassplayeroceanside Not at all :) I think, as someone else said, it is an English twinge he puts on it, I think there "er" is an English thing, but the accent itself still sounds quite American to me, until the the end of the word? Even then, the accent still sounds American if the word was spelt "diplomer", as he emphasises the "R" more than the English would. Don't know if you would agree?

[bassplayeroceanside]

@JohnReynoldsComedy I am sorely mistaken, I apologize. Which accent is it when every word ending in "a" is pronounced "er"? I'm curious.

[SgtSanchez]

@bassplayeroceanside

Laurie's posh...