Reply to: Regional accents, can other people place you?

[TestMangler]

Ya hoor sur you radges aw soond the same tae me

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

[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 !!!

[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.

[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.

[Torran]

Ya hoor sur you radges aw soond the same tae me

[ZARDOZ]

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

[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.

[Dallas]

am a well posh cosmopolitan londoner

until i speak to my mum on the phone, then am back to northern

[EternalOptimist]

I tork propper like. not like youse woolie-backs

[aussielong]

I 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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True. Canadian "about" sounds like its pronounced with a Lancashire accent.

[psychocandy]

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 :-)

[redgiant]

Heh, yes, Canadians can get quite grumpy when you get that wrong.

I usually get them to say 'about' ... that is a good way to find out if they are a septic or not

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.

[sasguru]

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.

[cojak]

Record yourself and replay.

You never sound like you then

[Scrag Meister]

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.