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Accents
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Onwe | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:07 |
are your accents in keeping from where you grew up. Mine isnt its more a welgroomed receptionist until if laugh. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:09 |
definitely - have a Welsh twang - not a very noticeable one here in Wales, but outside Wales very noticeable |
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Onwe | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:10 |
Mine should be more country orientated by with a well elocuted mother that stopped before i was born. |
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Onwe | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:15 |
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. |
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Dermot | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:28 |
I've got an Irish-Devon accent. So I'm told but, begorrah, I don't believe it. |
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Carole | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:31 |
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 |
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pablo1513 | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:39 |
Loads of different accents.......................Scaley Brat you see. |
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Stephanie | Report | 23 Jun 2008 23:41 |
Like the word "Cosmopolitan" - so I'll use it for my accent. |
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Devon Dweller | Report | 23 Jun 2008 23:44 |
I've lived all over the place too and I still talk like a Londoner |
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Staffs Col | Report | 23 Jun 2008 23:49 |
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 |
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Mick from the Bush | Report | 23 Jun 2008 23:55 |
Me flamin' oath it is Mate! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 23 Jun 2008 23:56 |
Moved lots - had to change my accent to survive!! |
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*Ophelia.taking a break..* | Report | 24 Jun 2008 00:05 |
I have what is called a `non` accent....people cant desipher where I come from.. |
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*Ophelia.taking a break..* | Report | 24 Jun 2008 00:06 |
~~~A cosmopiltan accent I like to think!~~ |
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Silly Sausage | Report | 24 Jun 2008 00:07 |
by brat Pabs do you army brat ? |
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*Ophelia.taking a break..* | Report | 24 Jun 2008 00:11 |
~~~sometimes hard to determine accents from that area..~~ |
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Silly Sausage | Report | 24 Jun 2008 00:21 |
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 " |
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*Ophelia.taking a break..* | Report | 24 Jun 2008 00:39 |
~~~lol..the images are revolving in my mind! |
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Mick from the Bush | Report | 24 Jun 2008 00:42 |
We do not! |
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*Ophelia.taking a break..* | Report | 24 Jun 2008 00:44 |
~~~lol..you do so! you dont know it..but you do!..lol |