What do people in Bedfordshire say

[darmstadt]

What about those in Rutland?

[DoctorStrangelove]

I lived in Bedford from ages 9 to 18 and still have family there, and can confirm that it’s generic Southern. Also, they really struggled to understand a Scouse accent in those days, though I believe many of them now have televisions which might have broadened their linguistic horizons a little.

They probly use the subtitles for "The Boys from the Blackstuff".

[NickFitz]

What is the Bedfordshire accent? Is there one? Or has it become subsumed into "generic Southern"

I lived in Bedford from ages 9 to 18 and still have family there, and can confirm that it’s generic Southern. Also, they really struggled to understand a Scouse accent in those days, though I believe many of them now have televisions which might have broadened their linguistic horizons a little.

[xoggoth]

Same as people in Chairshire when they sit down?

[DaveB]

Brace yourself Margery.

[Whorty]

"Southern" is south of the M4. Anything else is up north.

We're south of the M4 but we're West Country ..... peeps around these parts hate 'southerners' .... well, they hate anyone not from their own little village but i guess that's inbred farming communities for you

[vetran]

Spooters mum time to lube up?

[Paddy]

What is the Bedfordshire accent? Is there one? Or has it become subsumed into "generic Southern"

"Southern" is south of the M4. Anything else is up north.

[ladymuck]

What is the Bedfordshire accent? Is there one? Or has it become subsumed into "generic Southern"

[scooterscot]

when they're off to bed?