What accent do you speak in?

[classic33]

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, colleuagues 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'.

Only only "a" in staff normally!
You'll be saying t'aint in no time.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I sound like Morgan Freeman.

 

[Stephenite]

A couple of weeks ago i was called 'you effing danish'. This means my norwegian is improving.

 

[Jenkins]

The same as the cast of Akenfield

 

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[Accy cyclist]

When "Hayley Cropper" was killed off in Coronation Street it was sad, not because of her death but because she had the only accent like mine on tv.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T37r7EC8v8I

Obviously my voice is deeper than hers.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Hold on,i've found another.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHdMOPwKzQ
That looks like it was filmed in the Old England Forever in Clayton-le-Moors,about 2 miles from where i live.

 

[Gravity Aided]

America has a huge range of accents. Even within a single state, such as California, you'll have multiple accents. The LA accent is very different from the San Franciscan accent.

Illinois has accents all over the place, Southern Illinois has a greatly more southern accent, and Chicago and environs have a very northern style of speech. Central Illinois varies from East to West, as the east is largely of English origins, developing into Irish and German near Bloomington, and becomes more nordic(and a great many Belgians(!!!)) west of Peoria . These origins seem to have some effect on speech patterns, especially before people started moving around a great deal with their jobs. Before, when they stayed more in one place, speech patterns were much more pronounced. I suppose I could do one of those accent tag videos, but having been trained in radio speaking,as well as competitive speech in school and college, I think it has altered my speech patterns from those around me. And I was born/raised in Peoria, which seems to have its' own speech, in some ways. Funny old world.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Received Pronunciation

Did you pay extra for recorded delivery? Mine still hasn't arrived.

 

[AndyRM]

Transatlantic drawl mixee with French and Spanish when my mind goes that way.

I sound ridiculous.

 

[Katherine]

Only only "a" in staff normally!
You'll be saying t'aint in no time.

Staff is pronounced differently by northerners and southerners.

 

[nickyboy]

Accents are fascinating

I'm from North Lancashire and left there speaking with a typical N Lancs accent (not Preston....that accent is quite different. Outside the SW, the Preston area is the last remaining rhotic accent in England. They accentuate and roll the "r").

Over the past 25 years living in Manchester and N Derbyshire my accent has moderated somewhat. It's still defiantly Northern, but not as pronounced as it used to be. When I used to call my Dad for a chat, my family said my accent changed back to a more typical N Lancs accent. Some words I've changed how I say them. I no longer say "garidge"...it is now "garage". No longer "shuwer"....it's now "sure"

Son #2 is an interesting example of how accents change. He went to the local primary school and developed quite a strong local accent. We never really noticed it but non-local friends commented that he sounded like he'd stepped off the set of Last of the Summer Wine (filmed about 10 miles away). He is at a rather upscale secondary school in Stockport and slowly his accent has changed. After 5 years there, his accent is much more RP/General Northern. Certainly a lot more RP than his parents

 

[martint235]

Staff is pronounced correctly by northerners and feck knows what southerners are doing.

HTH

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Yorkshire born & bred, from between Wakefield & Leeds, & indeed very proud of my county of birth


I get called 'posh' by some people (staff, as well as patients), because I speak, as I'd call it 'properly'
That said, I still have the accent, I can indeed speak in a vernacular manner, if I feel the need to

 

[Old jon]

Which side?
Twas alf an alf at one go though.

E dint say.