Reply to: Regional accents

[Peoplesoft bloke]

No, but my grandparents had Ukrainian accents! I pretty much speak Home Counties BBC.

hmm BBC - Moyles, Nicky Cambell, Jim Naughty those two off the One Show...

[bekarovka]

You have a Polish accent, don't you?

No, but my grandparents had Ukrainian accents! I pretty much speak Home Counties BBC.

[Amiga500]

Oh, I got it now, he wrote a book on how to give up smoking

You have a Polish accent, don't you?

[bekarovka]

Oh, I got it now, he wrote a book on how to give up smoking

[Amiga500]

Whichone is Alan Carr? The camp one or the one with black hair?

The black one with the camp hair?

[bekarovka]

I don't know quite why, but when I hear that girl speak it makes me think of Alan Carr.

Whichone is Alan Carr? The camp one or the one with black hair?

[alreadypacked]

Strange that I have never had any problems with any N. Irish accents. Perhaps the most diificult Irish accent to decipher for me is a proper rural Kerry accent.

I think in NI it's not just the accent, it is all the slang and local references, which they tend to drop once the leave NI.

[TinTrump]

There are many variations on "geordie" up here...it's just that you soft southern shi tes don't notice the subtle differences.

I said Geordie because it was in Newcastle where I did my best man bit. I had a mate from Sunderland and there was a noticeable difference with his macam(sp?) accent.

When people talk about the Brummie accent its often really the Black Country accent they imitate; the later is stronger.

[wobbegong]

I can imagine sasguru speaking like this

I don't know quite why, but when I hear that girl speak it makes me think of Alan Carr.

[Bagpuss]

Everybody has a regional accent, unless they are adhering to a fabricated way of speaking which was nothing more than an invention. The Queen's English a special dialect which had to be spoken in front of Elizabeth I.

[bekarovka]

Cheryl Cole "speaks" geordie like Ant and Dec, but the Sunderland or Durham twang is much less harsh.

weird, I heard her talk for the first time the other night and I thought she was Welsh!

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I spent 6 years at Uni in Derry, I still have problems with NI accent.

My OH is from there - I have no probs understanding her (the words at least, not the logic) and all of her family and friends. Whilst I don't like to deal in Stereotypes, everyone I've met in NI has been more articulate and erudite than your average Southern(England)er.

[Ruse]

I spent 6 years at Uni in Derry, I still have problems with NI accent.

Strange that I have never had any problems with any N. Irish accents. Perhaps the most diificult Irish accent to decipher for me is a proper rural Kerry accent.

[Sysman]

When I first left uni I went for a series of job interviews at Schroeders (sp!) After interviews covering 3 seperate days I was told that I wasn't getting the job - In their words, I was technically the best person for the job but my accent wasn't right. Surely that could have been determined on day 1.

Yep, back in early career days I remember feeling that the wrong accent could be career limiting.

I caught a glimpse of it on the recent Prescott North-South Divide programme with Brian Sewell wondering how anyone with a regional accent could cope with reading and writing. He also thought that much of the industrial North should be razed.

To put it politely, I thought he was completely out of touch with reality.

[alreadypacked]

I spent 6 years at Uni in Derry, I still have problems with NI accent.