Everyone sounds the same in my head when reading posts. Well spoken Southerner here, didn't get the Harrow treatment as Dad did, thank goodness. I could get away with reading the news on R4.
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]
Though owing to some of my previous work collegues, I can occasionally break out into [url= http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yonner ]Yonner[/url]
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.
I wanted more like 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
