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Accents
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Staffs Col | Report | 23 Jun 2008 23:49 |
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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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Devon Dweller | Report | 23 Jun 2008 23:44 |
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I've lived all over the place too and I still talk like a Londoner |
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Stephanie | Report | 23 Jun 2008 23:41 |
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Like the word "Cosmopolitan" - so I'll use it for my accent. |
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pablo1513 | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:39 |
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Loads of different accents.......................Scaley Brat you see. |
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Carole | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:31 |
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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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Dermot | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:28 |
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I've got an Irish-Devon accent. So I'm told but, begorrah, I don't believe it. |
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Onwe | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:15 |
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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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Onwe | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:10 |
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Mine should be more country orientated by with a well elocuted mother that stopped before i was born. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 23 Jun 2008 22:09 |
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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 22:07 |
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are your accents in keeping from where you grew up. Mine isnt its more a welgroomed receptionist until if laugh. |
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