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What accent do you speak in?
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martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
Depends who you ask. It used to be a mix of scouse and East Lancashire but has been softened a little by 27 years in London. It still reverts whenever I'm in Liverpool or Nelson though
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
Mrs M
Guru
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Mixed Scottish accent with a slight Glaswegian twang on occassion.
Used to have a Derbyshire accent until sister and I were picked on at Primary School, then the accent toned down and went.
Used to have a Derbyshire accent until sister and I were picked on at Primary School, then the accent toned down and went.
SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
Semi - Manc with a very occasional Leigh twist.
Born in Manchester & raised as a Forces child early on ... before a return to Manchester & then onward to Atherton then Leigh.
The old boys & women of this Parish *Atherton* are mainly Leigh in accent but the young ones are a curious mix of Leigh/Bolton/Salford.
Our Mam used to berate us if we started to talk like the locals.
Born in Manchester & raised as a Forces child early on ... before a return to Manchester & then onward to Atherton then Leigh.
The old boys & women of this Parish *Atherton* are mainly Leigh in accent but the young ones are a curious mix of Leigh/Bolton/Salford.
Our Mam used to berate us if we started to talk like the locals.
Salford/Manchesterish, alright our kid.
Years ago I tried to order something off a girl in a burger van in Ayr but she couldn't understand me.
Her mam was there as well laughing away, and when I asked, "do you not watch Coronation Street?" she laughed even louder.
Her daughter remained expressionless though.
Years ago I tried to order something off a girl in a burger van in Ayr but she couldn't understand me.
Her mam was there as well laughing away, and when I asked, "do you not watch Coronation Street?" she laughed even louder.
Her daughter remained expressionless though.
Keith Oates
Janner
- Location
- Penarth, Wales
Cornish Accent mainly but I have picked many different words and expressions from other places during my travels.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
London, with the occasional Northernism.
swee'pea99
Squire
[QUOTE 4240377, member: 259"]Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire, but I tend to tone it down a bit when speaking to outcomers as they wouldn't understand a word of what I was saying otherwise. My kids speak RP, which is a bit odd, considering.[/QUOTE]
Thing is, accents are going out. TV has done for 'em, after the best efforts of the wireless. In a couple of generations they'll be all but gone. Go back to the time of Wuthering Heights (the early 19th century) and people sounded very different:
“‘It’s noan Nelly!’ answered Joseph. ‘I sudn’t shift for Nelly—nasty ill nowt as shoo is. Thank God! Shoo cannot stale t’ sowl o’ nob’dy! Shoo wer niver soa handsome, but what a body mud look at her ’bout winking. It’s yon flaysome, graceless quean, that’s witched our lad, wi’ her bold een and her forrard ways—till—Nay! it fair brusts my heart! He’s forgotten all I’ve done for him, and made on him, and goan and riven up a whole row o’ t’ grandest currant-trees i’ t’ garden!”
'een' as a plural for 'eye' goes back to Chaucer...but if it's not gone already, it soon will be.
Thing is, accents are going out. TV has done for 'em, after the best efforts of the wireless. In a couple of generations they'll be all but gone. Go back to the time of Wuthering Heights (the early 19th century) and people sounded very different:
“‘It’s noan Nelly!’ answered Joseph. ‘I sudn’t shift for Nelly—nasty ill nowt as shoo is. Thank God! Shoo cannot stale t’ sowl o’ nob’dy! Shoo wer niver soa handsome, but what a body mud look at her ’bout winking. It’s yon flaysome, graceless quean, that’s witched our lad, wi’ her bold een and her forrard ways—till—Nay! it fair brusts my heart! He’s forgotten all I’ve done for him, and made on him, and goan and riven up a whole row o’ t’ grandest currant-trees i’ t’ garden!”
'een' as a plural for 'eye' goes back to Chaucer...but if it's not gone already, it soon will be.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
I'm a bit of a mongrel, me.
I'm from Essex (outside the M25, if that makes any difference) and have worked in and around London on building sites (mixing with all the accents that that entails). I've travelled a lot and speak 'proper' English with people not native English-speakers and pidgin English to those with limited/basic English.
Having lived abroad for more than half of my adult life, I've not developed nor learnt the new sayings, phrases, expressions etc. (in today's England) and (to my nieces' horror) speak as though I'm still in the 80s.
Also I speak both Norwegian and Swedish all day at work and even my brother has to ask me what I'm talking about when I speak to him on the phone from time time to time.
I'm from Essex (outside the M25, if that makes any difference) and have worked in and around London on building sites (mixing with all the accents that that entails). I've travelled a lot and speak 'proper' English with people not native English-speakers and pidgin English to those with limited/basic English.
Having lived abroad for more than half of my adult life, I've not developed nor learnt the new sayings, phrases, expressions etc. (in today's England) and (to my nieces' horror) speak as though I'm still in the 80s.
Also I speak both Norwegian and Swedish all day at work and even my brother has to ask me what I'm talking about when I speak to him on the phone from time time to time.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
[QUOTE 4240377, member: 259"]Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire ...[/QUOTE]
I've got a mate from Breaston and it took me a while to understand why he called me 'youth' all the time.
I've got a mate from Breaston and it took me a while to understand why he called me 'youth' all the time.
What tongue does Miss Goodbody use?
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
She has a velvet tongue and dulcet tones.
