What English (UK) Dialect Could This Be?

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I don't know about that. Have you ever heard educated people from Boston, Massachusetts speak?!

There's a few people that will deliberately portray a particular accent too, for effect. There's a classic little cartoon from many years ago that I think you'd appreciate called Cane Toad. I don't think I can post the link here but I can PM you if you can't find it.

That video is a classic example of a "put on" accent.

 

[Angular Chap]

There's quite a few videos out there of people getting Scotts to try and say "burglar alarm".

It’s usually "purple burglar alarm".

The former head of NATO was a Scotsman, General George Robertson. I heard a radio interview with him discussing the war in Ukraine and he managed to slip the words “burglar alarm” into the interview!

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Years ago for the first time, a work mate, some one who was first generation from somewher else asked me about my accent, just told him its probably a rural Canadian accent, bit different from city of Toronto accent.

 

[Alexej]

It is not Scottish - just to say.
I suspect not a native UK person

 

[Judge]

I suspect not a native UK person

Interesting. If you search his bio (not written by him) it claims he was born in England. Though for a very long time I just assumed he was an immigrant. Then a Scot...but then in posting this that didn't sound correct either. His accent is more subtle, but I just couldn't pin it down. Still, in some ways he really did come across to me as an immigrant in Britain.

 

[Hypnalis]

Quite a few tried to teach me how to do that when I was a kid. No matter how hard I tried I never managed it, I think Scotts are built different.

Aussie English is "r-hostile". That sound is learnable, but not easily for an Australian, even starting with an Adelaide accent.

Rhoticity in English - Wikipedia

FWIW, the basics:
* Check out how you make a "t" sound: tongue should be tapping upwards a bit behind your teeth just before you "breathe" out.
* Step one in rolling R's is to do approximately the same thing with your tongue when you make an "r" sound.
* Step two is to do it lightly enough that the breath pushes it down while you're very lightly pushing it up.
It takes a lot of practice to get it right in normal speech. IMO unless you want to complete with e.g. Scots or Catalonian it's not worth the effort.

NB: there's a bit more to it OFC.
I think the way "Daniel the Australian hero" in the video says "you" right at the end ("... your mates will look after you") is an indirect example of "r-hostility".


BTW - my English is non-rhotic, but less so than Australian. Where I live is rhotic, but less so than Scots. What I do unless I'm deliberately masking my accent is somewhere between the two.
Naturally people in both places give me a hard time about my failings /lol.