General Chat

Do you like yours? Do you find people 'Class' you according to your accent.
I personally love accents, but of course dialect comes into it also.

I don't notice any accent here in Australia but when I'm in the UK it's very noticable to everyone including me. It will turn heads in small villages and I get asked all sorts of questions while other customers are ignored. Including my OH who has still got his NE England accent.

Sue xx

I notice accents alot when at work. I live in Shropshire near the Ironbridge and we have huge numbers of visitors to the area who come to see the world famous bridge and visit the the area and come shopping. It also helps that I have lived in lots of places so can recognise different tones. I'm told though that I don't have a Brummie accent although that's where my family comes from, maybe that's due to being married to a soldier and moving around alot.

I havent got one everyone talks the same round here...

saaaaf lunnon - init?

Although I can put on a "proper" voice on the phone!

I do drop my t's and my g's still.

Jill

I'm a London gal, not cockney i will add...................

I have a *London* ish accent...but I'm wrongly called (up here) A *Cambridgeshire Cockney*....the reality couldn't be further from the truth...I'm from the West London suburbs.

My accent doesn't hamper me or make things difficult...once people realise it's not *put on* and this is how I actually speak they're fine with it !!! xx

I think I have a Hampshre accent - but my work colleagues disagree.........
However, they do say I have some sort of indistinguishable accent and an 'interesting' turn of phrase!! LOL

Having moved so much (28 times before I was 30) - like from Malta to the NE of Scotland (the first move I remember) . 'Adapting' ie taking on the local dialect ASAP became a matter of survival in some cases, so I naturally do it - and even alter the way I speak depending on the accent/dialect of the person I'm talking to - and I don't mean talking 'posh' to someone who's failed to spit out the plumstone!
The scottish 'twang' easily re-appears.

I love my Geordie dialect.........not as broad as my Ancestors were, but I'm proud of my heritage!

do any of you have a "telephone accent"? My girls tell me that I talk "posh" on the phone when speaking to someone I don't know and when I answer the phone at work.

i am a smoggie and proud of it

I love accents and like and understand most of them even if they are broad......could be because I was used to my Dad having a N.Irish/Scottish twang (lived in both places) and my Mum with her Scottish accent, and Aunts and Uncles with Northumberland, Dorset, London etc. accents......just got used to them....

I was brought up in a Lancashire Mill town,put in the factory nursery from birth until 18mths old. We then moved to Derbyshire in a small country village. My Dad is broad Sheffield,and Mother ever so posh.

I also have the ability to take on the accent very quickly of the area I am staying in.,I can speak Lancs,Derbys Yorks Norfolk Welsh and "posh"

The only time I was discriminated for my accent was at infants school,because Mother had drilled the Queens English into me.

I soon learned to thee and tha along with my schoolmates,Mother hated it!!

I love the Geordie dialect.....Irish, scots and also the cultured English accent

if we go 30miles of boro, we get called geordies but were smoggies lol

common as muck lol xxx

Watch it young'n or I'l get one of my minders to give you a Geordie kiss...oh ya meant the smoggies were common as muck lol

xxx

Londoner through and through
But have to remember to talk *properly* when answering the phone at work
init
lol

haha smoggies i think sound like geordies but our accent is softer lol xxx

Shocked !
Stray is a softie ?
lol
xx

lol MO, yes a common as muck softie lololol xx