General Chat

are your accents in keeping from where you grew up. Mine isnt its more a welgroomed receptionist until if laugh.

definitely - have a Welsh twang - not a very noticeable one here in Wales, but outside Wales very noticeable

Mine should be more country orientated by with a well elocuted mother that stopped before i was born.

We have been here nearly 18 years and OH still has not lost his WY accent. When he gets together with other yorkshire type of people I have to inturpret.

I've got an Irish-Devon accent. So I'm told but, begorrah, I don't believe it.

Now, where did I leave my tractor? Gerr off my land!

I have a Lincoln accent with a bit of posher stuff thrown in. I did voluntary work with speech impaired children, so lost some of my accent

Loads of different accents.......................Scaley Brat you see.

Born a yorkie
Then overseas
back to blighty..............Ruislip
Overseas
Lincolnshire (Stamford)
Sweatyland(scotland for those uneducated out there)
now back in the county of my birth

YORKSHIRE

'Appen

Like the word "Cosmopolitan" - so I'll use it for my accent.

Born Derbyshire
Then Notts
Then South Devon
Then Wiltshire
Then East Devon
Then Notts (again)
Then South Yorkshire
Now South Devon -
every intention of staying put now!!!

I've lived all over the place too and I still talk like a Londoner
init

grew up in Staffordshire, worked in Brum for years and ended up speaking like a Brummie, then moved to Cornwall and went all me handsums and dreckly now back in the midlands with a midland accent.....some people say its a brummie one others think its more Derby

Me flamin' oath it is Mate!

xxx mick

Moved lots - had to change my accent to survive!!
Started off very posh - then moved to the NE coast of Scotland aged 5. Just HAD to stop talking like the queen then!!
Moved to various parts of Scotland - only small changes needed.
Moved to Cornwall - no-one could understand me, had to adapt quickly.
Then moved to Devon - had to change rapidly cos some Devonians don't like the Cornish. Went on like this for years, changing my accent to suit where I lived.
I have lived in Hampshire for past 20 years - I beleive I have a bit of a Hampshire 'burr' now - sprinkled with words and phrases from all over the place!!!
I definitely speak differently from my sister, (who also had to change accents) who has lived in Sussex for the past 20 years.
One brother has lied in the New Forest for the past 35 years - and he also has a different accent to me.

My eldest brother is the only one who has retained his 'Prince Charles' way of talking - but he's lived in America where they loved it, and is also in 'the arts' where a bit of pretentiousness goes a long way!! LOL

I have what is called a `non` accent....people cant desipher where I come from..
Born up in Sheffield..moved to London..then up to Lincolnshire..then back down to London..now in Brum!

I have a mixture of lincolshire words..and southern words..

" Im Orf to have a barth.."..southern

But words I say have a northern twang..really confuses people!

~~~A cosmopiltan accent I like to think!~~

by brat Pabs do you army brat ?

I am me ches-hire accent...and right common is it...

as the most of our business is done over the phone I have been asked if I have a lancs yorkshire and even liverpool accent.......deffo northwest..

~~~sometimes hard to determine accents from that area..~~

I think..be proud of your accent...its part of `you`

Before I met TW and BC they thought I talk very quiet......as I was normally on the phone to them at work....TW said I quote " I couldnt beleive her big gob when I heard her "

By the way she talks like Pat Butcher and BC sounds like a cockney nun...lol

~~~lol..the images are revolving in my mind!

I think the cockney acccent..is endearing...
bit like...Oliver Twist... A lot of history in it..

Some Australians sound cockney too...

We do not!
Only in American films!

xxx mick

~~~lol..you do so! you dont know it..but you do!..lol