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Author:  brataccas [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Whats your accent?/where it sounds like its from?
Feel strong need to ask this random question because it would be unfair to say where you currently live/born makes what accent you have is totally untrue, for example a friend of mine (who is English) has about 9 or 10 mixed accents into one, I used to laugh at her weird accent for quite a while until Im used to it, also curious how strong peoples accent is on here?

As everyone knows im foreign scottish but most people say/think Im from Belfast :roll: more people think im from Northern Ireland than Scotland, last customer I spoke to when I said to him "Is that a glasweigan accent I hear?" and he said "naw, ahm fae irvine pal" "youre from belfast pal?" he said to me? and I just was like "not another one" :shock:

ps, this irvine man said to me greenock (where I was born) in a straight line 23 miles leads to belfast so maybe thats how I get mistaken for being belfastish, Is this possible and even more important, normal?
Author:  jonlumb [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Whats your accent?/where it sounds like its from?
I speak the Queen's English and therefore have no accent, unless one were to call it 'educated'.
Author:  ProfessorF [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:12 pm ]
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Ah, in other words the home counties.
I dunno - I'd probably say the same thing - Berkshire, Bucks probably. For years I had a West Coast-Greenock/Glasgow accent in school to avoid the beatings, and then my English accent at home to avoid my parents not being able to understand me. Which, in hindsight, probably explains a lot.
Author:  Linux_User [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:12 pm ]
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jonlumb wrote:
I speak the Queen's English and therefore have no accent, unless one were to call it 'educated'.

I also speak the Queen's English; which is probably a blessing given that I originate from Somerset and don't have a "farmer's accent" *.

*although I do say "mind" at the end of sentences a lot, and I'll also say things like "I'll have one of they" or "one of them". So some of the Westcountry just can't be beaten out of you. :lol:
Author:  belchingmatt [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:13 pm ]
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jonlumb wrote:
I speak the Queen's English and therefore have no accent, unless one were to call it 'educated'.


You speak like a queen? :shock:

;)
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:20 pm ]
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I dont know ask belchingmatt as hes heard me speaking (poor guy :lol: ) but I think its a bit of pompey (cockney on sea as a friend described it) a smidgen of dorset and a smattering of home counties.
Author:  rustybucket [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:24 pm ]
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Very thick East Lancashire.

Exactly the same as the actress Jane Horrocks.
Author:  forquare1 [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:26 pm ]
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I don't really have an accent, so I would probably agree with Jon and LU. Having grown up in Wiltshire some words creep into my vocabulary such as "tad", but then again I also use "wee" for small a from time to time...

I find it odd that having lived in Wiltshire for for first eighteen years, or so, of my life that I haven't picked up the accent, yet after living in Wales for the last five years that I've picked up a Welsh twang in my everyday speech and can get a stronger Welsh accent when drunk/sleepy, it's bit of a muddle between Cardiff and mid-Wales...
Author:  HeatherKay [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:27 pm ]
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I have a neutral home counties accent.

At school in Surrey I was termed "posh". My parents are working class (when it meant working for a living and from a relatively poor background) but always encourage my sister and me to speak properly.

Since I've lived in the vicinity of Chatham for the best part of three decades now, I find I have picked up some awful local sounds, which annoy me I have to say. The proper, earthy Chathamite dialect is so coarse and rough it actually hurts my ears and sensibilities. It's difficult to explain why, but when a simple word like "out" is pronounced with two syllables, neither of which includes the letter O or the letter T, it makes me want to cry.

Let's see if I can make it work phonetically here: ahh-uh. Oim gahn ahh-uh. [That's "I'm going out", in case you didn't get it.]

Oh, dear god. :cry:

I've always had a knack for accents and dialects, too, a bit like a vocal chameleon. When I was in Stafford over the weekend, I had to keep stopping myself from dropping into the local dialect!
Author:  timark_uk [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:37 pm ]
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Northern.

Mark
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Whats your accent?/where it sounds like its from?
Not from this planet. Though sometimes can be mistaken for mild south London, or Brighton.
Author:  leeds_manc [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:46 pm ]
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I sound like I'm on Coronation Streeet to anyone not from Manchester and I sound quite posh and edumacated to anyone from Manchester.
Author:  timark_uk [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:48 pm ]
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leeds_manc wrote:
I sound like I'm on Coronation Streeet to anyone not from Manchester and I sound quite posh and edumacated to anyone from Manchester.
I've never heard you speak, and I'm not from Manchester, but I seriously don't think I'd place you from Weatherfield.

Mark
Author:  leeds_manc [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:59 pm ]
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I was trying to think of a polite way of saying southerners, I reckon anyone from Lancashire would be able to say what street I lived on.
Author:  belchingmatt [ Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Whats your accent?/where it sounds like its from?
leeds_manc wrote:
I reckon anyone from Lancashire would be able to say what street I lived on.


Coronation Street.

;)
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