[Closed] What's your accent?

Quite a broad scouse accent, not as broad as it was when I was 18, but quite broad all the same.

Never had any negative feedback, even whist working in Surrey in a relatively professional job, if anything I found that people responded really well to it, Conservative Councillors included (given that the scouse accent usually betrays certain political leanings), maybe its because I'm such an affable chap...

Manc. But not full on Terry Christian Manc.

Depends who I'm talking to.

I can do a kind of non specific Northern England one, and educated Northern England one and the full on proper Northern dialect one.

Hoorah Henry. 😳

(West) Yorkshire

Educated.

'uddersfield 'ere.

Though a man in Derby once told me I was very well spoken.

Northumbrigchan > hard to spell it like we say it.

Funny North of Newcastle south of Berwick twang.

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And don't tha bluddy forget it lad.

Scouse! Kirkby to be precise.... 😆

Glaawwsterrr

I'm interested in variations, what's the difference between 'general northern' and 'educated northern' ?

posh scouser apparently

posh (with a hint of brum when drunk, due to living with the buggers at uni and slipping to lowest common denominator when tipsy.)

crappy unidentifiable Glasgow-outskirts accent here

mine varies from glue sniffing Devonian when I'm not putting on airs and graces, through to fairly clear speaking bloke of Westcountry origin..

Although some fella from Nottingham the other night told me that my accent sounded like I was from 'a city'

Cumbrian which I think is just a mish mash of other northern accents

Educated northern is the way I would speak to strangers in my work environment. General northern is the way I would speak to people at bus stops or in shops or pubs.

Edinburgh, or, "scottish person who can read". Though the further south I get, the more scottish I become.

Queens English innit.

* as long as she has a North Manchester / Bury accent when she's not using her "telephone voice"

Southerner here too, No Public Skoolbouy ya's & hokey's but always stood out when visiting places further north than the M4. Although for some reason I've been told I have an accent on the word Long, I seem to pronounce it lon....ng.

I love accents, they are something to be very proud of. I think my favourite is Northumberland'idge, soft yet full of tone. In fact any accent with a round tone to it I like.
I'm not a fan of squeaky accents, therefore the Liverpudlian and Manchester tone grate, that's not to say I don't like them, just they are a bit screechy..
Oh, Dudley and Walsall, well I have to laugh at both, they're like rhyming slang for the Midlunders.
I hear a lot of different accents at work, quite a few Scottish and Landanars..

Something to be very proud of your accent.

CaptainFlashheart - Member
A little of this....

and a smattering of this.

I am disappoint. I wanted this.

Edinburgh, Scottish, but properly.

Well spoken Mancunian. NOT [url= http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Salfordian ]Salfordian[/url]

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Leeeeeds accent sometimes. But in posher company I dont have a huge accent, other than generic Northern (proper!) pronunciations.

somewhere between Manchester, Stoke and Sheffield. Might be because that's where I live, and have lived all my life. Will change a bit when I go to uni too, which'll hopefully either be Bangor or Sheffield.

Blimey, what a question! Still a lot of 'That Lundahn' in me mixed up with a bit of posh (thanks mother, not) as well as some odd Scots vocabulary.

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Not sure as I grew up In Elgin then moved to London for 5 years. I've since been In East Lothian for 12 years and my old mates think I sound like an Edinburger.

Another Manc.

Varies from Noel Gallagher to Anthony Burgess - usually somewhere around Max Beesley.

Same as you Tang, though I was born in Derbyshire, grew up in the midlands, went to 6th form in godforsaken closed down pit country and my parents are from Manchester. I like accents, very interesting. There are lots of variants of posh Northern, I think Ed Oxley's quite a good example, but maybe he just sounds posher than he looks! 😉

t' reet 'un

For you, Tom, I could be....!

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Americans on the West Coast seem to think I'm Australian for some reason.

Bikebouy, you are correct accents are a fantastic thing. I'm never going remember all of these so feel free to give your future posts an accent footnote.

Rural Somerset.I am a yokel.

Durham-ite, It's like a softer version of Geordie with a bit of Mackem mixed with some Smoggy & Monkey Hanger.

tomhoward - Member

CaptainFlashheart - Member
A little of this....

and a smattering of this.

I am disappoint. I wanted this.

Educated northern is the way I would speak to strangers in my work environment. General northern is the way I would speak to people at bus stops or in shops or pubs.

Pretty much this.

aaaaaawwwwww I'm loving the Edinburgh boys trying to justify the poncey accent, like.

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Born and lived in East London for over forty years so twelve years in Cambs hasn't made much difference to my cockney accent.

I can still do a very passable Ray Winstone impersonation

Northumbrian.

Soft Oirish.

Turning the ladies moist since 1993. 🙂

Soft Oirish.
Turning the ladies moist since 1993.

Thought you were from Munster?

Norn Iron here but work in Scotland regularly on building sites so can do Govan Rab C style or posh Edinburgh architect or indeed dour Aberdonian

Scouse. Slightly less than when I moved south 15 years ago but still strong enough

Cockney init.

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I was totally horrified to discover WCA speaks with a brash German/Welsh accent

Brumaaaay

Judd, not young Billy

How man.

Birmingham accent here.. not black country.

I'm amused at the Northernists who claim to have "educated Northern" accents. I'm a southerner and I can tell the difference between you lot, "educated" or not.

Me - not-very-posh public school with traces of a North Western accent picked up through years of living with the monkeys.

Mid Atlantic Estuary - er dude.

Northumbrian

Ey up and sithee.

Leeds , West Yorkshire . But a bit more 'Yorkshire' than the majority of Leeds dwellers.

Should be Aberdonian but they all think I'm terribly posh. While my English relatives all think I'm just a little common (and unintelligible) with my slight scots inflection.

'Point is thes a diffrence tween Northin and educated northin, which dunt cum cross in text.

The point is that there is a difference between Northern and Educated northern which doesn't come across in text.

I never try to hide where I'm from, but can change the way that I speak to suit the situation.

Fen.

But proper Cambs fen, not Lincolnshire pretend fenners.

Except when I teach in Yorkshire anywhere, when apparently I am Australian.

Racists!

Colonial. Which makes it difficult for Brits to tell a person's class origins, so they have no idea how to judge me....

I would say public school with a healthy dose of Sarf Lahdan.

Unfortunately I'm told I actually sound like

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Born in Lancashire, raised in Cumbria and moved back to Lancashire twenty years ago so a bit of a mishmash of lancs/ Cumbrian. More Lancs now though. Well, until we go visiting friends in coniston, within 10 mins I'm back speaking how I used to. 😕 Anybody else find this?

a deeper version of Stephen Hawking

Saarf Lundun with a touch of Surrey (mid atlantic mockernee surfer) and a bit of irish phrase structure cos yer one's a fiery galwegian. Thats when I'm sober. If I'm in the pub I have an annoying tendancy to mimick other accents and to make things worse, I'm really quite good at it 😕

We seem to be missing Kent'ish, Cornish, Devon'ish, and I've not spotted a Welsh one yet, closest to East Anglian is colournoise, (my lil sis has a strong accent from... Chatteris) Lancashire we've not had yet..

The best part of this is guessing where your new found friends are from when on bike trips abroad, before they open their mouths. That's great fun, I've met loads of Northern Germans who can tell Southern Bavarians, Dutch whom have accents that sound Belgian and/or Norwegian and Italians who you can just about tell what region they ride out from.

I love it.

For the record MrsBouy has a soft North East (Redcar) accent and its sooooo sexy.

Quick guide to Manchester/Salford accents -

Unadulterated Manc, possibly trying too hard:
Liam Gallagher, Mani, Bernard Manning, Shaun Ryder, Ricky Hatton.

Standard Manc:
Terry Christian, Mark Addy, Caroline Aherne, John Thompson, Mark Riley, Les Dawson, Brian Kidd, Nobby Stiles, Ian McShane, Noel Gallagher.

Posh Manc, still recognisable:
Mike Atherton, Tony Wilson, Anthony Burgess, Howard Jacobson.

Manc, but changed accent due to affectation/inadequacy:
Morrissey, Steve Coogan, Judy Finnegan.

they all sound the same to me

Thick, virtually incomprehensible, Northern Derbyshire accent.
I sound like a ****ing idiot.

Teesside + West Yorkshire + London

Sound well weird

Kentish ...But not Chatham

I raise you Teesside + South Yorkshire + Yaarkshire + London.
Also sounds a bit weird (so I'm told) with the added benefit of sounding like I smoke 50 B&Hs a day and being largely inaudible.

Lancashire we've not had yet..

*ahem*

@Bikebouy. Chatteris eh? Grew up in a little village not far from there that was so small and insular it made Chatteris look like that London.

Yorkshire despite nearly 2 decades in scotchland....say glass not glaas...sound posh in Yorkshire and clearly English up here...travelling for 5 years also messed it up

A bit of BBC, Geordie (only few words) and a strong hint ... something similar to 6:37 in the accent challenge clip below ...

Many people think mine is Orcadian, others think it's Aberdonian, and a few think it's South African. It's Annanese.

Southern, middle class English. Received, yet toned down due to fear of ridicule. 15 yrs in yorkshire and no loss of accent. Have the mick taken out of me at work for it? But it always gets heard and things get done as a result.

I don't have to listen to it so I don't really mind.