Regional accents, can other people place you?

[MyUserName]

When I lived back in the valleys I was almost beaten up a couple of times because people thought I was English.

Now in Hampshire most people can pick up that I am Welsh although sometimes they struggle and I have been asked if I was Scottish, Irish, South African and Austrailian. I think it might depend on what I am actually saying, some words clearly have a Welsh twang and some just sound like someone who speaks English but is not from England.

[ZARDOZ]

Nothing wrong with accents. If anything, people are starting to sound the same these days, Valley grrl, meets Estuary english, which is sad.

[Torran]

Ya hoor sur you radges aw soond the same tae me

[Sysman]

Now in Hampshire most people can pick up that I am Welsh although sometimes they struggle and I have been asked if I was Scottish, Irish, South African and Austrailian. I think it might depend on what I am actually saying, some words clearly have a Welsh twang and some just sound like someone who speaks English but is not from England.

When I move back to Yorkshire in the eighties I quickly got sick of being called a southern pufta/softie or simply posh (the latter from the ladies), so learned my Yorkshire again.

I switched back again when I found myself in Europe once more.

[Sysman]

The worst is that when in the UK or speaking to British people, I forget English words and only know the German which is embarrasing...

I suffer from that and things like diary entries or notes I take at meetings can be a real mish-mash.

When someone asks me for the English translation of a word I sometimes have a horrible blank.

[TestMangler]

I remember this with UB40 when they first came on the scene. But really liked them once I got used to it.

Paolo Nutini is the one that currently grates.

This ^^ to the power of loads.

Would love to rip out his voice box and poke it down his japs eye with a crowbar.

Where the f**k did that singing accent come from ? Half Glasgow Ned, half Mickey O'Neil from Snatch. Prick !!!

[TestMangler]

Ya hoor sur you radges aw soond the same tae me

Ken, likesy, ya doss c**t !! Did ye bring the cairds ????