General Chat

Mine too is Derbyshire, but not broad Derbyshire, with Nottinghamshire undertones. But I do have a smattering of Scottish words creeping in, and some naval terminologies. I do go abit Posh on the phone, though
Julia in Derbyshire

We all have very classy accents around here mate!


xxxxxxxx mick

haha, our mam has a phone vioce, "oh helloooo" lol

Thats me ,when not using phone voice
So Ive been told
lol

lol MO, yes a common as muck softie lololol xx

Shocked !
Stray is a softie ?
lol
xx

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

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

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

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

common as muck lol xxx

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

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 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 am a smoggie and proud of it

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

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

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