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Middle class non-posh, with hard A's (Grass not [i]grarss[/i], Bath not [i]Barth[/i]) that I've retained from when I lived in Hull and a vague Wessex lilt (retained form growing up in Somerset and now living in Dorset).
I dropped the Somerset accent [i]VERY[/i] quickly when I moved to Hull, owing to not wanting to get beaten up on a regular basis.
Bits of wolverhampton (when swearing or cross) mixed with RP from Uni and a posh surrey wife!
Hope to move back towards wolves one day to regain my rightful mercian accent 🙂
North Hampshire, Fleet accent.
Anyone north of Sheffield perceives it as Mockney London, anyone from London perceives it a posh bumpkin.
God only knows what my accent is. Product of Ayrshire upbringing and Highland life.
Generic Northern
Though I've been informed that you can tell when I'm in a bad mood as I go full Manc
Grew up in Essex, moved north as soon as humanly possible. Luckily I don't lapse back into Estuary English very often, so it's a generic northern twang.
Scouse. And damn proud of it.
Although have a londoner wife who speaks without much of an accent which has probably toned mine down over the years.
Got two daughters who thankfully sound much less broad than I do. Can't stand a broad scouse accent on women tbh.
I'm like a lot of others here a "Mish-mash", born in Portsmouth, but of a dad who was Northern irish via Solihull, and a mum who was from Sheffield, i've then lived in York, Leeds, London, Germany, Morocco and now Norfolk, and i pick up bits of accents, and even more certain turns of phrase.. i have a habit of saying "that's grand.." instead of good like NI, then will come out with Yorkshire phrases but in a Hampshire accent with Norfolk bumpkin inflections!
My uncles is good, born in Newwcastle, raised in Sheffield and now in Essex, he has this weird Geordie, Yorkshire, Essex accent going on.
I like the range of accents on our small island..
Having worked with lots of European and US guys for over 20yrs, my accent has toned down to regular Northern Monkey - a mix of Manchester, S Yorks & W Yorks.
Broad Ayrshire ya ****.
Broad Ayrshire ya ****.
Dobber? 😉
Awright ya bawbags. Who knew most folk on here are fae Wishy. Deepest Gowky with a hint of Craigneuk.
Am pure scheme scum me.
Like south Cumbrian like, eh.
Whatt yon wi?
Ahul gahan git us two-uls, eh.
I am, however a complete accent sponge and will subconciously take on the intonation of those around me in a very short timescale.
You and me both PP.
I am mostly Scots central belt hidden within a Heinz 57 Varieties.
Working in so many different places over the years,I would do it automatically.
You have to watch at that game though,still amazed it didn't get me a punch in the mouth. 🙂
People from Gowky aspire to reach the heady heights of "pure scheme scum"
That's a massive step up.
Well done. 😉
Bratfud wi a bit o Wakey
Another scouser here
Gowky?
Posh end, Heathfield, sometimes referred to as Castlehill estate or Lower Overtown.
Gowky = Gowkthrapple
a complete accent sponge and will subconciously take on the intonation of those around me in a very short timescale.
This is Mrs B, who will completely unknowingly start imitating someone's accent. The main problem being is she's utterly terrible at it, which is not only embarrassing but often causes offence. She seems to particularly like adopting an Indian accent when talking to Welsh people, and does this bizarre Scottish thing on occasion which slightly sounds like she's on helium. FFS.
Gowky, aka Gowkthrapple, a charming hamlet on the south side of Wishaw, Lanarkshire.
Often mistaken for Beirut.
RP crossed with Estuary. I grew up in Maidstone or Maaayyydstun to give it's local pronunciation, hence the estuary English. My mum was born in India in the 1930s of expat parents, went to a convent school, joined the Army as an officer when she came to the UK hence the RP.
Had to google that, sounded a made up name!
Gowky - Where you need to a Tour of Duty before the council will let you have a real house.
Posh end, Heathfield, sometimes referred to as Castlehill estate or Lower Overtown.
Heard it. Gowky.
Sounds like Annbank.
SAS have their final assignment in Annbank, if you can get through there without a blind twitching at 3am, yer in.
Right mongrel
Dorset to age 7, then South Wales to 18. Then north east for a few years and since then Oxon / Bucks
Most people don't pick any accent but a few place me as West Country or Welsh
Probably mostly Kirkcudbrightshire, though i lived in Perthshire 'til i was ten, and have picked up a fair few Yorkshire features over the last 17 years.
Gowkthrapple, cuckoos throat, such a beautiful name.......I was a countryside ranger in Motherwell for a few years in the late 80's and remember visiting a primary school in Gowky - barbed wire coils along the roof verges, steel mesh over the windows...
Born and bred South Cumbrian. Well, technically it was still Lancashire when I was born, so about 98% South Cumbria, 2% Lancashire.
Baaaaarrrrrnsley (can't get away from that) with a bit of Geordie chucked in. Go proper broad when I go back 'ome. Like being on Kes.
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North worcestershire, like brummie but posher with a underlying herefordshire bumpkiness
New potatoes in flour?
😆
East Lancashurrrr.Kind of East Lancashire but not Blackburrrn or Burnleh.
Ey up and sithee, I'm in't middle o' them.
Utterly fabulous.
The UK should really have a “be proud of your accent day”
A bit like “Pie Day” but with moar crust 😆
Nah, then we'd just argue about whether it was a real accent or just a dialect with a lid.
Smart RP.
Americans melt at the sound. 😉
Was on a large conference call with American colleagues the other day, and one, who shall remain nameless, forgot to mute her phone when she said, "His accent is just too sexy!".
8)
Moved around a lot as a child, then boarding school. As others have said, this tends to give a 'neutral' accent in terms of regional tones.
....and then she saw your shoes and the spell was broken 🙂
Scouser, but after 20+ years down in Berks, it's a lot softer than a proper one.
Cougar - Moderator
Nah, then we'd just argue about whether it was a real accent or just a dialect with a lid.
😆
New potatoes in flour?
Raw potatoes would've been better but yeah, LOLZ reading that. 🙂
As Yak, really - southern nothingness. Even the little bit of Berkshire R has gone nowadays.
I grew up in Surrey, and haven't moved far. Accent is standard SE nothingness.
I can do a fair line in West Country drawl since my folks moved down there but that's just for taking the piss.
Americans melt at the sound.
Get away from the tourist areas and pretty much any British accent will do that. In Orlando no-one bats an eyelid; in Hicksville, Kentucky I've literally had jaws drop.
It's kind of weird, it felt a bit like being a rock star. It actually got a bit wearing after a while, everyone wants to know all about you and exactly where you're from (despite invariably having minimal knowledge of non-US Geography). I sussed the answer to this in the end. I tried "near Blackburn" (back when they were top of the Premiership and I figured reasonably well known) - nothing. "Near Manchester" - nope. "Near Liverpool" - "aah, Liverpool, the Beatles!!" Everyone knows and loves Liverpool (even if they couldn't find it on a map if their lives depended on it).
Interesting that many of the folks from the South don't perceive themselves as having any accent at all.
You really do.
Born in North West Durham and lived half my life there ..a bit in the middle where I moved into Mackem territory for a while ( thankfully that didn't effect anything ) ..last 20 years in Noth West Nothumberland ..(but my Dad has lived here since 1969.)
So pretty mixed up ..kinda Geordie lite.. 😀
Interesting that many of the folks from the South don't perceive themselves as having any accent at all.You really do.
Agreed, but it covers such a wide area that it becomes difficult to pinpoint exactly where in the south you hail from.