I have a question for my fellow Downton Abbey fans. Every time you finish watching an episode, do you find yourself fighting an intense desire to speak with an English accent and call everyone m’lady?
It took everything I had not to walk around calling Ryan m’lady after I watched an episode last night. Luckily I had Sadie to practice on…
“Here are your Beggin’ Strips, m’lady.”
(Someone clearly mastered the Dowager Countess’ unamused expression.)
For those of you who tried watching the first episode of Downton Abbey and couldn’t get into it, apparently that is a very common thing! I actually didn’t watch the first episode – my mom and grandma filled me in on the details – but I’ve heard that it’s the second episode that hooks you, so it might be worth another try. Then come back here and we can all call each other m’lady and be jealous of their lovely accents together. Yes, I am trying to convert all of you into Downton Abbey fans.
Workout
Before breakfast, it was gym time. I took my booty through my lower body and abs circuit workout, but added 30 seconds of jump rope in the mix in between each exercise to get my heart rate up. Not a bad way to start the day!
Breakfast
My morning meal began with the most delicious grapefruit.
We got a box of grapefruit on Tuesday as part of the Harry & David fruit of the month club, so I’ve been on a big grapefruit kick all week. I can’t get enough of them and have been eating them morning, noon and night.
Ryan laughed at me when he noticed the depleted number of grapefruit in our fridge when he arrived home from work yesterday. Naturally a Ron Burgandy quote was appropriate. “You ate almost all of the grapefruit? I’m not even mad. That’s amazing.”
They’re just so, so good!
I also had a toasted English muffin topped with Publix natural chunky peanut butter and a combination of mascarpone cheese stirred together with Trader Joe’s superfruit spread.
If you adore mascarpone cheese, I highly recommend stirring a little bit of jelly into the cheese to make a fantastic spread. It was wonderful!
Question of the Morning
- Do people tell you that you have an accent? Is there a specific accent that you adore?
When I first moved to Florida from Palatine, Illinois, I got made fun of all the time for the way I said certain words like “Mom.” (Apparently I said “maaaaam.”)
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I’m horrible at accents, but I LOVE an Afrikaans accent. When I studied abroad in South Africa, I was obsessed with it. It’s like a surfer-british accent.
Good Morning M’Lady!
Just wanted to let you know I bought some dresses from a cut above boutique and I’m in LOVE with them!
Thanks for the suggestion.
oh i’m so glad to hear you love them! brittney is so great & her boutique has the cutest stuff!
I am from the Boston area… and I usually get made fun of for NOT having a Boston accent! People really want & expect you to have one! But it just never stuck for me!
I love Downton Abbey so much! My fiancé and I have been watching an episode or two every night before bed and are now at the end of the 3rd season! I then usually spend the next morning pretending to be (hoping to be) the Dowager Countess. I love her.
she’s the BEST.
I am originally from Michigan and ever since moving out of MI I have been told I had a Michigan accent- but I never knew what that meant! One day while watching Parenthood (best show ever!) I noticed that Dax Shepherd had a strong accent and looked him up and lo and behold he is from Michigan! I finally understood what that accent sounds like hearing it so clearly from someone else!
I went to school in North Jersey for two years and I’m from the Philly area. Apparently, to them I had a “southern” accent! Weird. I’ve never really been told that I have an accent before.
i love austrailian accents! that breakfast sandwich looks so
good!
Haha I bet Sadie was impressed with being treated so highly! I’m British so I have a British accent but in term of anything more local than that sadly not! I love the German accent of when people speak English.
lol ryan.
Since I don’t own a TV, I had no idea what Downtown Abby was. I was at a bar the other night and it was on the TV and some girl got really excited about it. I looked at her like an alien because I was clueless, and she was like dying because I didn’t know what it was. Can’t say I miss TV, but I sure felt silly then!
I recently moved to the North East from Colorado. I feel like I have no accent or weird speech quips. But now I’m saying things like “baaaaag” instead of “bag,” just like your mom thing. It’s weird how quickly accents catch on to you.
I recently moved from North Carolina to Tampa, FL and people tell me ALL the time how southern I sound! It makes me laugh, because I’m not half as bad as everybody else in my family!
umm…i’m totally guilty of saying “ello govna” to my 9 month old son.
I had the ugly Boston accent growing up. Then moved to NC and adopted that accent. Now I am in AZ and don’t think I have one at all. But I can slip in between them pretty quickly.
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Apparently I have a Canadian accent, but I don’t think Canadians have accents 😉
I definitely didnt like the first episode of Downton Abbey. I even heard it gets better but it didnt seem like it was for me so I’ve never gone back to give it another chance.
Great post. I’m definitely going to try that second breakfast! I just went to Kenya, Africa in January and I LOVE their accents!
In college I was told I had a ‘southern’ accent… I am from Baltimore, MD! I don’t say y’all or have a twang(would be fun sometimes though!!)… so I am not at all sure what they were referring to!
All of my Southern friends say I have a neutral accent, but I think a yankee would say I sound Southern. My Northern hubby is also fairly neutral, so I guess we balance each other out.
I haven’t seen that show yet, but I often have an urge to say “your grace” after too many episodes of Game of Thrones.
I’m from Minnesota but have lived in Chicago for almost four years now for college. I get made fun of for my accent AAALLLL the time. Now I don’t have the stereotypical Fargo “don’t ya know” Minnesota accent. Everyone loves to point out how I say “bag” or “rag” since it’s really more like bayg.
I have a friend here who has the heaviest Chicago accent EVER and “Maaam” is definitely in her vocabulary.
I’m from upstate NY and apparently we have nasally A’s. For the most part though I keep that on lock down!
I have a bit of a Boston accent, then moved South for 5 years and people always asked me “Where are you from?!?”. Now we moved back to New England and I fit right in 🙂
I absolutely had the same problem after watching “Downton”! I watched it as a two-week marathon on Hulu+ and now I am missing it terribly:( Only a year to wait!
My daughter (she’s 10) does THE BEST English accept. I’m completely jealous of how good she is at it. And every so often she gets in the mood to speak in it all day. ha ha Quite comical. Especially at the grocery store- “Mother- might we have a spot of tea after?”
Haha, someone once told me that I have “perfect diction”…..I’ve always wanted a cool accent though!
I grew up in Rhode Island, but since my parents were from Delaware, thank GOODNESS I didn’t end up with a Rhode Island accent! It’s horrendus!
Love love downton! And I’m from Arkansas, living in Idaho. People are surprised when they first meet me that I don’t have an accent, but the more you are around me, the more it comes out. And if I’m mad, it definitely comes out.
I moved from Wisconsin to North Carolina so I’m constantly being told I have an accent. The drawn out O’s, saying things like bubbler for water fountain, the list goes on and on. 🙂
I embrace it.
My stepfamily all lives in London and I always love talking with them! My mom of course said my stepdads accent was one of the first things she noticed.
My husband and I love talking like The Californians (from SNL). Especially when we’re giving directions. “Go north on Hennipin Ave, take the 94 E and go back to Woodbury where you belong!”
I moved down to SC from the Upper Peninsula of MI and I have been asked if I am from Canada, eh. It is amazing when my friends call, the accent comes back so fast! We say about ‘a boot’ and sauna ‘sow na’, we love our long a’s.
I can’t get into grapefruit!! Do you add a little sugar to it?
I’m from Chicago and get told ALL THE TIME that I talk with a slight southern twang…weird. I’ve ALWAYS lived in Chicago, lol, I don’t know where that came from 🙂
On another note…I saw on your blog post a few days ago where people were saying how much you’re posts have changed. And I have to agree. I’ve thought about mentioning it, but it seemed rude and I didn’t want to offend you. Posts have seemed much more vague and generic and I missed the old PB Fingers. BUT, in just the few posts since you got those comments, things have seemed a little more back to “normal” and it makes me, and I’m sure plenty of others, very happy. We just love PBFingers in it’s original form and you’ve created such a lovely community here that just adore you, your family and everything you have to offer. Don’t let others bring down your passion. I hope you have a happy Friday and enjoy your weekend. And keep on blogging for as long as you love it! 🙂
I still haven’t started watching yet!! I think it’s because I know without a doubt that ill be addicted!
I used to have a strong Australian accent but now after 2 and a half years in the states, I am sad to say I have one of those creepy hybrid Australian/us accents. Wah 🙁 I still lovvvveeeee the real southern US accent, I think it’s so cool!
My inner voice is British (I think it’s out of rebellion. My mother HATES British accents! lol), and once while driving back to school from a three day weekend we spent at my parents’ house, my best friend, Lauren, and I spoke with British accents for about four hours. It was exhausting! Totally fun, but exhausting.
I grew up in the Low Country of South Carolina and my mother is from East Tennessee (you can only imagine what she sounds like) and my entire family is originally from SC. Well I went to college in Ohio for swimming and I got mercilessly made fun of. I never thought I had an accent until I went up there. During my freshman year I trained myself to not sound so “southern” then when I came back from any break from home my teammates would just start right back in with the digs.
I’m from Texas, and whenever I go visit friends/family elsewhere, they always think it’s funny that I say y’all. I don’t have a southern accent, but EVERYONE says y’all here!!
People always tell me they can tell I”m from Texas when I talk lol!So I guess I have that southern accent! And I love Anchorman, and smiled so big when you put in a Ron Burgandy quote! 🙂
I am from Texas so I definitely have a pretty strong southern accent. People never really focused on it until I moved from Florida and then people pointed it out all the time. Oh well!
No need to convert me I’ve been a huge Downton fan from the get-go! I find with any show worth watching, it usually takes at least 2-3 episodes to be completely hooked. Especially with a show like Downton where there are so many characters to get to know. Can’t wait to see what you think of Season 3…it’s a doozy.
Haha, I somehow came out with a neutral accent, which is crazy because I grew up in a house with New York parents. Every time I watch that show “long island medium” on TLC, theresea sounds just like my Mom. Maybe it helps I have spent most of my life in GA…hey y’all 😉
Yes, I find it incredibly difficult to not speak with an English accent. I actually had a hard time getting into the first few episodes. I eventually got totally sucked in though, and now I’m obsessed!
I don’t have an accent but I love talking in an English accent for fun. My friend at work also loves to so we go back and forth with each other.”Bloody hell!”is commonly yelled.
I am totally hooked! And I just embrace my british accent 🙂
Downton Abbey! Mom and I love this show. I didn’t think I would like it, but now we are eagerly waiting for season 3 to be out on dvd. Maggie Smith is the best part of the show! She has some awesome lines!
Funny–now I wonder if I have an accent according to others?! Being in Arlington Heights, I never thought I did. 🙂
AHH yes, I moved to sc from mi about three years ago and get laughed at all the time!! the two things that seem to scream I’M FROM THE NORTH are saying ‘pop’ and ‘you guys’—-but I refuse to conform 🙂 I’ve also had a few times where the southern accent is so thick that I can’t even understand what they’re saying, my husband ends up interpreting for me, it’s terrible haha
I’m from CA and live in SC – I have the same problem, my boyfriend’s from here and he has to translate for me occasionally too! (glad I’m not the only one)
I have been told that I have the perfect California accent, but I don’t know if that is a compliment or not! 😉
I’m from Texas, so EVERYWHERE I travel, I hear that I have an accent. Personally, I don’t hear it unless I slow down and actually listen to how I say words, but apparently it’s noticeable! Maybe all the “y’all” ‘s give it away 😉
I’m originally from Georgia, but now I live in South Florida. When I tell people I’m from GA they always ask me where is my accent. The one word that gives me away is Fixin. Like “We’re fixin to leave”.
Being from California and going to college in the south, sometimes I get told I say things wrong, like calling the air conditioning the cooler and a “cooler” an ice chest.
I have a horrible Southern accent that I try to keep in check to the best of my ability! I absolutely adore English accents, and, yes, I do feel the need to talk in one whenever I watch Downton Abbey. I find myself saying things like “quite” and “lovely” a lot right after watching an episode!
I know this sounds strange, but every time I read my textbooks (specifically, my science texts like developmental bio and physics), in my mind I read with an British accent. I think I try to fool my brain into thinking I’m being really smart because well…actually I dont know why really…I guess I just think everything sounds more intelligent with a British accent! Also, I’m from Colorado and apparently we do not pronounce our “t”s, so when most people say mounTain, we say, moun’in.