What accent do you speak in?

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Ever so slightly Norn Iron accent

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Central Scottish, no one understands me :-(

I do - och aye the nou! .... even though my accent is ... Italian!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Received Pronunciation

You're welcome

 

[classic33]

Bratfud?

Summat like that

Sout' o that.

 

[NorthernDave]

Sout' o that.

Ah, Cleckhuddersfax?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

The UK is also all but unique in having so many different regional accents, and also in equating accents to class and social status.

Nay, same in Italy and Germany - my 2 countries of origin

but i'd hazard a guess that places like france, spain, germany, italy, norway and sweden and so on have a good few handfuls of regional accents of their own. Maybe we just don't pick up on the nuances since they're in a foreign tongue.

Spot on!
Funny story:
Once I was in Rome, about to take the bus to the airport.
A guy asked me, in English, where the bus to the airport alighted.
So I told him, he said " the Glasgow plane bus, we are going to Glasgow ... and you must be to by the sound of you!"

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Sout' o that.

Ah, Cleckhuddersfax?

Tha's reet @NorthernDave

 

[Crackle]

[QUOTE 4240953, member: 259"]My wife can switch between Belfast wisecrack (like her dad) to Antrim lallands Scots. (like her mam) without putting her class of wine down.[/QUOTE]
Grand Cru to Premier Cru, one assumes.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 4240953, member: 259"]My wife can switch between Belfast wisecrack (like her dad) to Antrim lallands Scots. (like her mam) without putting her class of wine down.[/QUOTE]
Put the glass down and step away from the bar.

 

[cyberknight]

Being bought upon the derbyshire/leicestershire/staffordshire borders im like connor mcloud in highlander, my accent is from lots of different places

 

[summerdays]

I think I've developed a southern accent, with the occasional adopted Bristolian ... Some I work with have the full on Bristolian!

 

[growingvegetables]

The UK is also all but unique in having so many different regional accents, and also in equating accents to class and social status.

Ummmmmm - that's just NOT true. (But I do have a wee advantage in being able to speak Arabic .)

The most extreme I've come across.

In what was North Yemen, a lot of villages are on the top of 8000ft mountain peaks.

In large parts of the country, each village had, among the men, a distinctly Yemeni accent; but they travelled widely for work, so it was pretty close to standard Arabic, and usable across Saudi, Kuwait, Iraq, Egypt ---- wherever.

But the women had important things that were their life - and each village had an entirely different dialect, accent, and vocabulary, used just among the women, and from which men were excluded.

 

[Julia9054]

Slightly-posh-northern-bird accent!

 

[Katherine]

I like listening to different accents. There are plenty of different accents around Greater Manchester. I even go week at the knees when I hear a North Eastern accent, luckily I don't hear it often. Many years ago, I bought some fresh fish from a Geordie, selling door to door, just because of the way he spoke.

I don't think I have an accent.I grew up in Hampshire so it's mostly RP. My family think that I sound Northern and my friends, colleagues and husband's family think that I sound Southern.
Working in a Salford school, I do adapt my southerness with children at school, so they can understand me. I talk about the 'class' as if it rhymes with 'gas' rather than 'cars'. Whereas the word 'staff' rhymes with 'calf' rather than 'chaff'. When I teach phonics I have to make myself say the letter sound 'u' as the middle sound in 'good'.
I've changed some words slightly over time. I now say 'that's not' rather than 'that isn't'.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Bolton born and bred. Think Peter Kay only funny