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As per RedThunder's request on the [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/your-favourite-and-least-favourite-accents ]favourite accents[/url] thread...
I speak Canadian. Winnipeg to be precise, although I think my 'r's are slightly less pronounced after 15 years in the UK.
Pure Sussex with a London lilt.
no one can get mine.....
Yorkshire till i was 9, north of Scotland till 17, Aberdeen for 11 year while dating a Geordie for 4 of those. Now resident in Fife for 21yrs.
i drop H's depending on company kept.
I don't have one- everyone else does.
Oh OK then, Edinburgh middle class scottish with a whiff of council scheme.
Midwelsh border/nouveau Shropshire. No one out of the area seems to be able to place me. Northerners think I sound welsh, southerners think I sound brummie, Brummies think I sound posh, Americans think I sound Australian. Dunno what Australians think.
South Cumbrian. Quite what that means/sounds like I've no idea but I know that it's sufficiently different from N. Yorks (where I currently live), North Cumbria and Lancashire that if I drop back into dialect then few from outside the area would understand me.
Deepest, thickest Lanarkshire.
Indistinguishable to Glaswegian except to anyone from Lanarkshire or Glasgow.
I am, however a complete accent sponge and will subconciously take on the intonation of those around me in a very short timescale.
A bit unfortunate if ye work wi' Fifers eh?
You know when Liam Neeson is trying to do an American or mid Atlantic accent but still sounds like an Ulster man eating a chip butty - a younger version of that.
RP
family are all services/civil service, we moved every 2 years or so (mostly abroad), I went to grammar school. For this I am eternally grateful as I was born in Wolverhampton
Yorkshire 🙂
And proud of it!
Lanarkshire with a hint of Irish.
Smoggie/Bristol mix.
Essex, East London, Australian and Cornish. It's a bit of an odd one.
A mish-mash of rural East Anglian meets RP, depending on how many beverages I've consumed.
sort of bristol-ish? moved from Banbury when I was about 8 or 9 now live back in oxfordshire. People I work with take the piss a little bit and call me bumpkin..grrrrr
Southern nothingness. Occasionally drop in a few regional bits and pieces from past places without thinking.
Ah now you’re asking.
NE is has a vast array of accents many within just a few miles. It’s easy just to say Georidei but mine is really a mix of Geordie and Northumbrian but I don’t roll my Rs.
Ulster man eating a chip butty - a younger version of that.
New potatoes in flour?
Brummie with a hint of a black Country twang, but quite soft due to time spent working and living further south.
East Lancashurrrr. 🙂
RP here, and tend to get labelled as 'posh' by lots of folk as a result of prep school.
Deepest, thickest Lanarkshire.Indistinguishable to Glaswegian except to anyone from Lanarkshire or Glasgow.
Having been brought up in Motherwell (so probably not quite as deep as perchy) I like to think that this is the accent I have. However as people generally think I'm from Edinburgh I may be mistaken!
Having been brought up in Motherwell (so probably not quite as deep as perchy)
Pure Wishy, am ur. 😉
Lancashire via Canadia via London
Proper shit f'sure hey
Soft black country I think, similar to black country, but phone and spoon are still one syllable words.
Indistinguishable to Glaswegian except to anyone from Lanarkshire or Glasgow.
Pure Wishy, am ur.
Wishy is totally different from Weggie. Easy to tell the difference, use a lot of different words as well. 😉
blunt flat Yorkshire. but more Barnsley than harrowgate..... 😀
Public schooled Somerset with a hint of S African mum
Apparently Janner, but I just don't hear it...
🙂 who knew Motherwell had so many bikers.
Posh S. Devon with a little Norn Iron [s]swearing[/s] vocab acquired from my wife.
Boro + Yorkshire with all the corners knocked off having lived in London for too long.
Pretty much only the Boro vowel sounds remain.
Keighley
Warwickshire. Not a particularly distinctive accent but someone I'd never met before correctly identified it once so there must be something there. It also has Yorkshire bits to it (have lived here for over 20 years and my grandparents have always been here) e.g. shorter vowels than my Warwickshire friends and using some local phrases.
Warwickshire...So I sound just normal but am surrounded by people who talk funny.
Central Sarf Coast Common Scumbag.
who knew Motherwell had so many bikers.
Anyone who's tried to walk their dog round Chatters / Mauldslie / Camby Priory woods on a warm summers evening?
Geordie (North Shields), but with a little Peterlee/Seaham twang after 10 years with my other half.
@perchy
A true fifer would never admit to working
I was once told I had a strong hampshire accent by someone who has no idea where i was from (they were correct). which is kind of bizarre as i didnt know hampshire had an accent (its a massive and varied county after all), let alone it could be strong.
I'm also an accent sponge so now sound pretty welsh though
Mine is a bloody mess - I'm an accent sponge. Surrey until I was 18, then Aberystwyth for a bit. When i came home I got in the taxi and couldn't make the shapes with my mouth to make London vowel sounds when I tried 😀
Then Northampton where i spent a lot of time with Americans, then South Wales, Bristol and the last 8 years in Manchester.
It really depends on how drunk I am and the company that i'm in.
I have a little American southern drawl left but mainly its all a bit RP..
Another Wishy accent here, though I had to polish it up a bit when I moved to Glasgow to be understood, then again after moving to Edinburgh. Still recognised as Lanarkshire though (I think...)
A mongrel.
Northern English, with slight hint of Cumbrian, influenced by International India school and being married to Yorkshire lass for 22 years.
Commonly asked if I am Aussie....!
Kind of East Lancashire but not Blackburrrn or Burnleh.
Lived in South Wales (Porthcawl/Bridgend) for 22 years, been in East Mids since.
Had a very strong accent when I first arrived - people used to say "Say ****ing hell" as the girls used to get moist when I did as I dwelt on the 'K' 😉
Then after a period of time I'd go home to be told I sounded English. Not got East Mids accent yet which is hideous - "get over here now Brit-nehhhh!"
Sound more Welsh after I come back from being there for a few days. Or when I swear.
Still pleased when people I've just met can tell I'm Welsh though 😀
Middle class non-posh, with hard A's (Grass not [i]grarss[/i], Bath not [i]Barth[/i]) that I've retained from when I lived in Hull and a vague Wessex lilt (retained form growing up in Somerset and now living in Dorset).
I dropped the Somerset accent [i]VERY[/i] quickly when I moved to Hull, owing to not wanting to get beaten up on a regular basis.
Bits of wolverhampton (when swearing or cross) mixed with RP from Uni and a posh surrey wife!
Hope to move back towards wolves one day to regain my rightful mercian accent 🙂
North Hampshire, Fleet accent.
Anyone north of Sheffield perceives it as Mockney London, anyone from London perceives it a posh bumpkin.
God only knows what my accent is. Product of Ayrshire upbringing and Highland life.
Generic Northern
Though I've been informed that you can tell when I'm in a bad mood as I go full Manc
Grew up in Essex, moved north as soon as humanly possible. Luckily I don't lapse back into Estuary English very often, so it's a generic northern twang.
Scouse. And damn proud of it.
Although have a londoner wife who speaks without much of an accent which has probably toned mine down over the years.
Got two daughters who thankfully sound much less broad than I do. Can't stand a broad scouse accent on women tbh.
I'm like a lot of others here a "Mish-mash", born in Portsmouth, but of a dad who was Northern irish via Solihull, and a mum who was from Sheffield, i've then lived in York, Leeds, London, Germany, Morocco and now Norfolk, and i pick up bits of accents, and even more certain turns of phrase.. i have a habit of saying "that's grand.." instead of good like NI, then will come out with Yorkshire phrases but in a Hampshire accent with Norfolk bumpkin inflections!
My uncles is good, born in Newwcastle, raised in Sheffield and now in Essex, he has this weird Geordie, Yorkshire, Essex accent going on.
I like the range of accents on our small island..
Having worked with lots of European and US guys for over 20yrs, my accent has toned down to regular Northern Monkey - a mix of Manchester, S Yorks & W Yorks.
Broad Ayrshire ya ****.
Broad Ayrshire ya ****.
Dobber? 😉
Awright ya bawbags. Who knew most folk on here are fae Wishy. Deepest Gowky with a hint of Craigneuk.
Am pure scheme scum me.
Like south Cumbrian like, eh.
Whatt yon wi?
Ahul gahan git us two-uls, eh.
I am, however a complete accent sponge and will subconciously take on the intonation of those around me in a very short timescale.
You and me both PP.
I am mostly Scots central belt hidden within a Heinz 57 Varieties.
Working in so many different places over the years,I would do it automatically.
You have to watch at that game though,still amazed it didn't get me a punch in the mouth. 🙂
People from Gowky aspire to reach the heady heights of "pure scheme scum"
That's a massive step up.
Well done. 😉
Bratfud wi a bit o Wakey
Another scouser here
Gowky?
Posh end, Heathfield, sometimes referred to as Castlehill estate or Lower Overtown.
Gowky = Gowkthrapple
a complete accent sponge and will subconciously take on the intonation of those around me in a very short timescale.
This is Mrs B, who will completely unknowingly start imitating someone's accent. The main problem being is she's utterly terrible at it, which is not only embarrassing but often causes offence. She seems to particularly like adopting an Indian accent when talking to Welsh people, and does this bizarre Scottish thing on occasion which slightly sounds like she's on helium. FFS.
Gowky, aka Gowkthrapple, a charming hamlet on the south side of Wishaw, Lanarkshire.
Often mistaken for Beirut.
RP crossed with Estuary. I grew up in Maidstone or Maaayyydstun to give it's local pronunciation, hence the estuary English. My mum was born in India in the 1930s of expat parents, went to a convent school, joined the Army as an officer when she came to the UK hence the RP.
Had to google that, sounded a made up name!
Gowky - Where you need to a Tour of Duty before the council will let you have a real house.
Posh end, Heathfield, sometimes referred to as Castlehill estate or Lower Overtown.
Heard it. Gowky.
Sounds like Annbank.
SAS have their final assignment in Annbank, if you can get through there without a blind twitching at 3am, yer in.
Right mongrel
Dorset to age 7, then South Wales to 18. Then north east for a few years and since then Oxon / Bucks
Most people don't pick any accent but a few place me as West Country or Welsh
Probably mostly Kirkcudbrightshire, though i lived in Perthshire 'til i was ten, and have picked up a fair few Yorkshire features over the last 17 years.
Gowkthrapple, cuckoos throat, such a beautiful name.......I was a countryside ranger in Motherwell for a few years in the late 80's and remember visiting a primary school in Gowky - barbed wire coils along the roof verges, steel mesh over the windows...
Born and bred South Cumbrian. Well, technically it was still Lancashire when I was born, so about 98% South Cumbria, 2% Lancashire.
Baaaaarrrrrnsley (can't get away from that) with a bit of Geordie chucked in. Go proper broad when I go back 'ome. Like being on Kes.
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North worcestershire, like brummie but posher with a underlying herefordshire bumpkiness
New potatoes in flour?
😆
East Lancashurrrr.Kind of East Lancashire but not Blackburrrn or Burnleh.
Ey up and sithee, I'm in't middle o' them.
Utterly fabulous.
The UK should really have a “be proud of your accent day”
A bit like “Pie Day” but with moar crust 😆
Nah, then we'd just argue about whether it was a real accent or just a dialect with a lid.
Smart RP.
Americans melt at the sound. 😉
Was on a large conference call with American colleagues the other day, and one, who shall remain nameless, forgot to mute her phone when she said, "His accent is just too sexy!".
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Moved around a lot as a child, then boarding school. As others have said, this tends to give a 'neutral' accent in terms of regional tones.