What kind of accent do you speak with?

[EqualOpportunities]

Yam yam all the way. Especially when p!ssed.

[Sir_Edward_Matheson]

I ended up with a great but unconscious capacity for mimicry....

You are Steve McClaren and I claim my five tulipsh or shumthing.

[realityhack]

A good lawyer may have a shot at getting your money back

Copious amounts of beer, your honour.

[cailin maith]

Apparently I do a decent impression of the shipping forecast...
Northerner with RP, (NE England), good capacity for mimicry but it has to be a conscious effort. If there are people around me with strong accents it just reinforces my RP, oddly.

Elocution lessons as a child, sadly. I like the NE accent.

You do

And I am the opposite - if I am talking to anyone with a strong accent I will end up trying to sound like them, some people think I am taking the pi$$.

I LOVE accents and always enjoy trying to pinpoint where in the country someone comes from by their accent.

Not sure how mine presents itself though. I was born and grew up in the west-country, but other than prounouncing the occasional word with the west-county twang I don't think that it would be obvious. There are a few on here that have met me and might think differently

Lots of....

Yam yam all the way. Especially when p!ssed.

[NotAllThere]

Yorkshire when talking with native English speakers, otherwise RP. ( Helps Johnny Foreigner understand ). My German has a distintive Swiss accent. French accent is N.E. France.

[Sausage Surprise]

Is that somewhere like Tottenham?

I blame Chris Waddle

[oracleslave]

I blame Chris Waddle

Juande Ramos

[Sausage Surprise]

When you live in North East it's easy to distinguish between, Nothumberland (Jackie Charlton), Byker (Ant & Dec), Sunderland (Townie), Durham coalfield (pit yakker) and Teesside (smoggies & Vic Reeves).

However, to the southern, shandy drinking woofters we all sound the same.

[Sausage Surprise]

Juande Ramos

Even he speaks better english than Chris Waddle......"Pelanty, Pelanty, surely ref"

[snaw]

14 years away from Scotland and I've still got an incomprehensible west coast Scottish accent. Well when I get a bit pished anyway, normally I can tone it down.

When I lived in Aus I picked up a slight Aussie twang, but that was only apparent to people back hame, and when I lived in the US I was forced to adopt a slight American intonation purely to get myself understood. I've regressed since I've been back in the UK, but back home they think I speak a wee bit posh ...

Go figure.