What kind of accent do you speak with?

[cailin maith]

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.

Bollocks

[Torran]

Dollar Academy mixed with Leith ken

[NotAllThere]

... I was forced to adopt a slight American intonation purely to get myself understood. ...

I encountered that.

- An iced water please.
- Huh?
- Gimmee anice-watter
- Oh, yeah, sure.

Worse than Germans.

[Charles Foster Kane]

Joe Pasquale accent.

[snaw]

Bollocks

I know, weird eh?

Funnier hearing my daughter speak (Well if you call what a two year old comes out with speaking) back home. She's got a habit of saying - ooh no, in a kind of proper english accent and sounds hilarious to my mum!

[aussielong]

It's good to know others flip between various accents, or strength of accent depending on who they are talking to. I used to feel guilty about doing that myself. Don't do it so much anymore. My accents seem to have converged.

I think if you come from a working class background but have gone through a decent Uni - and made middle class friends there - and ended up working in IB's you will end up doing this. In the week you are talking to public school boys, at the weekend you could be talking to lads who have been in jail.

Since i've been in Australia I have added a bizarre 2nd generation european immigrant accent to my collection. I picked it up from my girlfriend.

The problem is when you do this that you have to realise what your identity isn't. It's not the same as any of the people who you are impersonating. It is a new classless entity that has developed out of increased social mobility. You try and fit in everywhere but don't actually fit in anywhere. That's why I like Oz - everyone is like that.

[TheBigYinJames]

In the week you are talking to public school boys, at the weekend you could be talking to lads who have been in jail.

And going on recent events, these could be the same people.