Place the accent thread. Identify somebody famous with a strange or interesting accent, guess where they are from......

any language and accent experts can tell me where the cookie monster is from ?

any others ?

Edited by PalazioVecchio (28 Aug 2015 7.32pm)

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

I know Jim Henson was born in Greenville, Mississippi.

Frank Oz originally voiced Cookie....He was born in Hereford, Herefordshire but grew up in Oakland, California.

So it's probably a Californian accent.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Cookie Monster's dialect is Standard American English -- as spoken by a chain smoking three-year-old. Cookiebonics, maybe?

Frank Oz was raised in Oakland (CA), but Californians weren't really noted for having any particular accent at the time. Many, if not most, of the people who lived there in the 1950s-60s were newcomers to the state like him. Unlike him, they came mainly from the American Midwest, which is the homeland of the accent we call Standard American.

Donald Pleasence is English, but I think his accent for Blofeld was a fairly generic 'eastern European', possibly an attempt at Polish. Blofeld was apparently born in Germany and grew up in Poland.

Mike Myers' accent for Dr Evil is - I'm pretty sure, without checking - based on the voice of Saturday Night Live creator/producer Lorne Michaels, who is Canadian, as is Myers.