Regional accents

[Basher]

Not wishing to hijack the Scots v English debate.

Regional accents.

Do you have the accent relative to where you live?

I have a typical Yorkshire accent (no flat caps or whippet though!) I was speaking to someone on the phone from darn sarf at work earlier in the week. I was surprised to hear her inform me that she loved my accent.
Watching the local news on telly we often see local people obviously speaking with a Yorkshire accent. I have to say, sometimes it sounds absolutely awful. Remember the Shannon Matthews farce. Her mother didn't exactly come across as a typical Yorkshire lass I have to say.

What's your accent like? Typical for the area? Strange because you live in another part of the country but took your native accent with you?

 

[Ethan]

Nope. I have a Northern Ireland accent and live just outside slightly posh Wokingham in Berkshire.

An occasional American has said something along the lines of 'Gee, I really love your Scottish accent' to which I have replied with a traditional Irish saying often heard on Father Ted.

 

[chris661]

An occasional American has said something along the lines of 'Gee, I really love your Scottish accent' to which I have replied with a traditional Irish saying often heard on Father Ted.

Drink! :rofl:

 

[USER1999]

As far as I am aware, I have no accent. But then I guess most think that.

I have thing for Jane middle mass and the bird from soccer am though, so I guess for some bizarre reason I like Geordie lasses? No idea why.

 

[Captainron]

South African mixed with the odd bit of a Yorkshire twang. Ooh matron!

 

[rickg]

I still have a fairly strong Yorkshire accent despite leaving Huddersfield in 1978 to join the RAF. It isn't as strong as it was mind, a necessary toning down was required of everyones accents in the forces so you could understand each other. Soon comes back strong when I visit home though, although unbelievably they all think I speak like a cockney!!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Got a bit of a sarf london twang and use to get asked regularly by daft Yank tourists if I was a cockney when I worked up there. "Yea love - all us cockneys wear ill fitting M&S suits and cheap shoes".

Do like the Yorkshire accent and a female Welsh one too. Not a fan of Geordie or Scouse accents, just a both harsh even though some of my best mates hail from those parts of the world

 

[One Planer]

Being a typical Stokie I speak with a broad Potteries dialect.

If you've never heard a clay-head (Stokie) speak, read this

http://www.pworld.ndo.co.uk/stoke1863/potteries.htm

 

[connor]

I have a Cornish accent which is disappointing as I'm scouse... Although lived her for 22years although get mick taken out of me by all cousins back home...

 

[Hobbit]

My accent has been diluted by moving around quite a bit. People recognise I'm from oop north but think I'm from somewhere different to Mrs Hobbit, who's been a Middlesbrough lass all her life.

Thankfully I've never lived down south...

 

[DaveM]

I have a Manchester accent Or I think so. Was told that when I lived down south. But up here in Manchester they think I talk posh. So belive what you want. The lass is a scouse who lived in Essex for 20 yrs But she has no accent at all. Strange one that Mind she sounds dead posh to me. Strange how accents can decieve eh.

 

[stevie_r]

Having moved away from the black country many years ago my accent is nowhere near as strong as it was. Clearly there's still a bit of a twang there as I'm often asked if I'm a Brummie apart from being a fairly insulting question our accents are different

 

[G1BB0]

had a southern accent until about 8 y/o then moved oop north & picked up a lancashire one, then joined the army and went a bit scouse (dont know where that came from was a mix of the north and south creeping back) then moved to yorkshire and the Lancashire element came back but with a hint of yorkshire, now been down sarf for the last 11 years and the southern twang is creeping back, especially when I say the F word

I am a bit of a mongrel lol

 

[stevie_r]

had a southern accent until about 8 y/o then moved oop north & picked up a lancashire one, then joined the army and went a bit scouse (dont know where that came from was a mix of the north and south creeping back) then moved to yorkshire and the Lancashire element came back but with a hint of yorkshire, now been down sarf for the last 11 years and the southern twang is creeping back, especially when I say the F word

I am a bit of a mongrel lol

what cap badge were you G1bb0?

 

[mchivers]

i've got a watered down geordie accent after 6 years in the RAF.

girlfriend refers to it as a DJ voice.

as in crap local DJ from down south

 

[Iaing]

As broad a Scots accent as you're ever likely to hear.
Sometimes even I struggle to understand me.

 

[bobmac]

As broad a Scots accent as you're ever likely to hear.
Sometimes even I struggle to understand me.

Pardon?

 

[paul1874]

Born and raised in Edinburgh but seemed to have a Glaswegian accent then joined the RAF in 1980 and like Rick said everyone's accent needs to soften so we can all be understood. Not lived in Scotland for years and when I go back to visit have problems understnding the natives! My brothers say I now speak English but my mates down south think I am very Scottish. Although born in Scotland and have a Scottish accent I am English thanks to my Dad who's from the black country.

 

[Mungoscorner]

I have a West Midlands accent,unless i'm talking to one of my brothers or sisters.Spent most of my life living here hence the accent,my sister on the other hand was 17 when we moved down here and she still has a broad Glesga accent.

 

[shewy]

Living in Cardiff but from the NE of Scotland so my accent is watered down a lot,after a few beers mind it's back.