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Previously on "Regional accents, can other people place you?"
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostI 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.
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 !!!
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostThe worst is that when in the UK or speaking to British people, I forget English words and only know the German which is embarrasing...
When someone asks me for the English translation of a word I sometimes have a horrible blank.
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Originally posted by MyUserName View PostNow 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.
I switched back again when I found myself in Europe once more.
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Nothing wrong with accents. If anything, people are starting to sound the same these days, Valley grrl, meets Estuary english, which is sad.
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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.
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am a well posh cosmopolitan londoner
until i speak to my mum on the phone, then am back to northern
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Originally posted by redgiant View PostI usually get them to say 'about' ... that is a good way to find out if they are a septic or not
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Having not lived in the Valleys for 20+ years my mates back home think I'm posh now but if I work anywhere outside Wales they think I'm the biggest sheepshagger they've ever heard.
Can't win mun :-)
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Originally posted by formant View PostHeh, yes, Canadians can get quite grumpy when you get that wrong.
My accent used to change depending on where I was living (Holland, Jo'berg and Cheltenham) but over time I have just got this posh (accoding to GF redgiant whos from Leicester) generic south eastern one.
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I speak RP, which is dying out so much now, people do a double take when I speak and ask me to repeat myself. The whole country is turning into a bunch of farking plebby chavs.
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Not sure about now, but in my early childhood I moved from Brighton to Hertfordshire to Devon.
When I went to Uni, the first person I met in my halls said, oh you're from Devon, even though I never realised I had an accent.
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