What kind of accent do you speak with?

[beaker]

Call me a , but I find it fascinating hearing the different kinds of English accents spoken.

For the record I speak with a mild (cultivated English) Australian accent - even some British people think I'm British!

What kind of accent do you speak with?

[NickFitz]

What kind of accent do you speak with?

I speak with a variety of accents all intertwingled in proportions depending on the societal context, the preponderant accent of those around me, and my own mood.

Having started out as a Liverpudlian and then been forced (by the teachers) to speak "proper" at a public school full of Southern ponces (courtesy of the eleven-plus examination - my presence, not theirs) I ended up with a great but unconscious capacity for mimicry.

On the rare (usually funereal) occasions that I return to Liverpool, I soon lapse into a mild Scouse accent. Moments of extreme emotion (like some bastard trying to rob me at knifepoint and suchlike confrontations) will also bring this to the fore.

In the South, I will automatically speak with the most perfect, yet natural, RP you have ever encountered this side of Boris Johnson.

When, some years ago, I had a gig in Cheltenham and stayed in a pub mainly frequented by the normal Gloucestershire-born people of that town, I was quite startled one evening to find myself talking in a Gloucestershire accent without any conscious effort on my part.

These days I normally speak with a weird mixture of RP and East Midlands, with some elements of Liverpudlian thrown into the mix. For example I don't say double-o words such as "book" with a long "oo" (as in Ty-Phoo - "Take a look in the cook book"), but I say words like "grass" and "bath" with a short "a".

Ooh yer bugger me duck, as they say here

[Diver]

I've been told that my accent is more upper English than Welsh. but then again my accent, mode and form alters to comply with the norm for the company that I'm keeping.
Dealing with clients my vocabulary increases dramatically compared to the norm when working on-site and effing and blinding with the lads.
I think it is a subconscious need to fit in

[Bob Dalek]

Southern Northerner.

[Diver]

Southern Northerner.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Southern Northerner.

Is that somewhere like Tottenham?

[Jubber]

Kenneth Williams

[zara_backdog]

Well spoken midlands accent (cries of “contradiction of term” I hear).

Originally came from the North of Birmingham close to Lichfield, so slight Staffordshire accent, and we all had elocution lessons at primary school – hence still say barth instead of bath.

Worked for a long time in the inner city and also black country so had to play down my real accent and play up the brummie/black country (two different accents I may add)

Lived in Shropshire for a while

Now live South of Birmingham which has a more nasal sound (heaven forbid I pick up that side of it)

Anyone’s guess really!

[xoggoth]

Funny, several people I have just met have taken me for an Australian. Suppose the Oz accent and Sarf Lunden are a bit similar.

I always think I have an immensely cultivated BBC voice myself.

[BrilloPad]

I speak Sarf LOndon.

Jellied eel anyone?