What accent do you speak in?

[Dayvo]

I had some friends at school (brothers) who came from Sri Lanka. Their cousin also left the island and re-located in Glasgow. They had to speak Sinhalese to each other as they couldn't understand his broad Glaswegian accent.

 

[Roadrider48]

Sandhurst!

 

[coffeejo]

I've never met you but I can guarantee you do not

When I met @coffeejo expecting a proper bumpkin accent I was surprised to hear her sounding all posh, you will be the same

Potsy think you're posh if you happen to think that mushy peas are a great joke to play on unsuspecting visitors from overseas.

 

[lutonloony]

I tend to drift into the accent of where I am based, but the locals seem to think I am taking the P. Proper accent is Lu'on though

 

[stephec]

I tend to drift into the accent of where I am based, but the locals seem to think I am taking the P. Proper accent is Lu'on though

I've got a mate from Dunstable, and one day we were discussing accents a few years after he'd moved to Bolton.

He said, "I can't believe it, down south we all sound very similar, but up here you go ten miles up the road and they talk differently."

He might have a point though, he doesn't sound much different to a bloke at work from Wellingborough.

 

[Dayvo]

I've got a mate from Dunstable, and one day we were discussing accents a few years after he'd moved to Bolton.

He said, "I can't believe it, down south we all sound very similar, but up here you go ten miles up the road and they talk differently."

He might have a point though, he doesn't sound much different to a bloke at work from Wellingborough.

Funny you mention that. I've got four mates from Bolton (they don't know each other) and they all speak differently from each other.

In fact, one of them teaches English in Sweden and he's produced classes of students who've learnt a bit of the Bolton accent: one of them is Prince Daniel, married to crown-princess Victoria.

 

[stephec]

Funny you mention that. I've got four mates from Bolton (they don't know each other) and they all speak differently from each other.

It's funny listening to their accents, Farnworth just up the road from me sounds different to Westhoughton that's only four miles the other way.

Peter Kay sounds quite mild in comparison.

 

[Tim Hall]

I had some friends at school (brothers) who came from Sri Lanka. Their cousin also left the island and re-located in Glasgow. They had to speak Sinhalese to each other as they couldn't understand his broad Glaswegian accent.

I was on a building site in London the other day where a fair few of the lads were Sikhs and had come down from Birmingham. Listening to them talk to each other in, presumably, Punjabi with a Brummy accent made me smile.

 

[jhawk]

Some kinda weird cross between Southern England and Canada... Apparently, I sound Canadian to English people, and English to Canadian people!

 

[Katherine]

Some kinda weird cross between Southern England and Canada... Apparently, I sound Canadian to English people, and English to Canadian people!

As does my sister who has lived in Toronto for the last 20 years.

 

[Katherine]

My parents' 10 grandchildren are in Toronto, Dublin, Surrey and Manchester. The Irish and Canadian cousins sound the most similar. None of them sound like their or my parents!

 

[gavroche]

I have been in the UK for 45 years but still have my French accent. On the other hand, when I go back home to see my brothers, they all say I have a slight English accent when I speak French. Can't win!

 

[NorthernDave]

Despite my dulcet Yorkshire tones, I was once accused of being an Australian by a Canadian whilst on holiday in Mexico a few years back.

He took some convincing that not all English people sound like Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

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I'm told that if Danes take the pish out of you, to your face, they like you.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I spent the first eight years of my life in Ireland, so obviously arrived here with an Irish accent. Growing up in east London I soon became a cockney, being young enough to adapt. But when I'm in the company of Irish people, such as at family gatherings I find after about ten minutes I have slipped back into an Irish brogue without realising it. It is just programmed in to me from birth and I didn't realise I did it until an English friend pointed it out. When I was at school I had two good mates, one a West Indian and the other from British Guiana. I found it amusing that they were fully fledged Londoners out in the street, but unconsciously reverted to strong native accents when they were home.