[Closed] What's your accent?

Elocution lessons anyone?

You know, to smooth things out a bit or perhaps make you morph into a new environment?

You knows it!

any awful combination of rural and london 😳

Leeds with a hint of Bradford. but not so much as Bratfud

Generic Scottish. Someone (another Scot) once suggested Ewan Macgregor, which I don't really get, he's clearly posher than I am. I'm much more glottalstoppy.

propur 'ampshire. gets mucg thicker if i hang out with my family too much.

or perhaps make you morph into a new environment?

I don't see how that'd work, I couldn't understand a bloody word he said.

Non descript southern with a slight twinge of Norfolk on certain words.

A cross between Bolton and Manc. Although when drunk its full on broad Mancunian, the scummy style like the Gallagher brothers. Born in Salford, moved to Wythenshawe and now living in Bolton.

Missus was Born in Bolton, moved to Darwen but speaks more Manc than Yonner.

YamYam ay it

Black Country not a brummie

softly spoken with a sing songy twang

Kind of sarf mixed with a little West Berkshire i.e. a yokel who has failed elocutions lessons.

Softly spoken with a sing songy twang

Nah,i don't know what I have.

Roter Stern - Member
Hoorah Henry.

Yorkshire, skipton, so is the wife but she sounds right commom like shes from Bratfud

Educated Anglo-Montreal when public speaking, or trying to impress.

Middle-class Winnipeg with softened 'r's (the latter due to the self-consciousness of having lived in Britain for the last decade) when at home and with friends.

Leeds accent here although at a festival last year after a day on the ale I got asked if I was from Bolton! I almost spat my beer in her face!

Missus was Born in Bolton, moved to Darwen

Bowton to Darren?

Leeds accent here although at a festival last year after a day on the ale I got asked if I was from Bolton! I almost spat my beer in her face!

Should've done, that would have cleared up the confusion.

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Another Leeds accent here, though slightly softened by living in the South and South West for a number of years.

Has nobody owned up to RP?

That had better be me then

essex estuary english according to some woman who studies language.

Pretty weird. Mancunian dad, American mother, born and raised in Glasgow.

Non descript southern with a slight twinge of Norfolk on certain words.

Same as for my comment on "educated northern", I bet it's not nondescript at all.

I come from The South(tm), but a north Oxfordshire accent doesn't sound anything like one from Kent, or Hampshire, or Plymouth. But they're all "south".

Even RP is an accent. I've ditched most of mine.

Cwoydon.

A combination of Oxfordshire bumpkin, Kentish yawl and RP. Also a touch of sarf London too, a few good mates of mine are from the big town and it rubs off a bit too readily.

I love going back to the chilterns and hearing my native tongue in pubs and shops though.

Do we have any authentic Northamptonshire accents here? It's an endangered species!

Depending on inebriation and company, Sliding scale between full on Janner (as distinct from the rest of Devon) and quite middle class but vowel sounds giving the game away somewhat.

Despite being proper halfy halfy Enngleesh/French, I learnt French as a child/teenager not a baby/toddler, so my accent in French is obviously a bit foreign, not particularly recognised as eeengleesh and with lots of comedy south west (pyrenees) inflections and slang. A bit like that time in the 90's when Bjork sounded a bit cockney and well wierd.

Apparently the only thing I am at all good at is impersonations, so I suppose if I listened to a few people and then concentrated enough I could be from Huddersfield.

I grew up in Morningside, eEinburgh where Sex, is what you carry coal in, and a Creche is when two cars colide!!
Except I sound English (BBC Radio 4)...Mea Culpa, Mea culpa, Mea maxima Culpa! 😥

Ghetto mancunian...south central (not l.a) moss side with an afrocentric twang for a caucasian...get mi. My second accent being again south central Italian, Abruzzo, Abruzese,strong dialect might aswell be another language. Its odd other European countries still contain dialects...is there any English equivelent as in completely different...oh yeah, Welsh.

OP, the variations are of intrest, indeed the study of which in the lingustic sense does have a title I can't recall, although phonetics of speech are less analysed as say, pre war experts that could distinguish a vernacular tone from one end of a far flung town in a remote corner of the isles...facsinating. (quoted in Moss-Sidish)or(envisage a gangster-rap version of any Gallagher brother)btw Welsh is ill!?

Think I would be best described as "an gearasdan" I don't notice it till I move out of the area!

cross between Saaf East Lundon and Kentish (but certainly not Kentish Chav / Chatham-ese).

Mackem. Proper mackem. From the north of the Wear. (Now live on the south, and feel dirty for it)

Mine is weird combination of Orcadian, Hawick-ish from the Borders, cooncil Fife and Edinburgh.

To Southerners I sound very Northern, to my friends etc back home, oop in Ashton I sound tame and educated 🙂

im from arbroath but i dont sound like im from there apparently - when compared to the other fisherfolk .

i keep getting accused of being posh fife (does that exist? )

which is strange - my dads from stoney but speaks in pretty broad dundonian and my mums from forfar and speaks tuchter.

Used to be a bit Auf Weidersehen Pet many years ago. That had to change when went to work down London way twenty odd years ago. People would simply not understand me at all.

Now the Pit Yak only comes out if beer and other sufferers are present.

Hampshire via Oxford, about as RP as it gets. I don't drop 'H's but nor do I say 'hice' either.

Dunno pretty neutral, from the East Midlands so we don't seem to have much of a strong accent! My Grandparents are Londoners though so a bit of that has rubbed off, as has the 3 years I spent living in Leicester I think!

Geordie. Technically slightly northumbrian but Geordie to most

West Cumbrian gibberish spoken here.
I have to use signing for those in the south.

apparently I'm a bit ay oop lad..

Despite being Cumbrian born and bred I get told I don't have a proper Cumbrian accent. Not sure what accent I do have but I've been accused of being Geordie by some and Scottish by others. So I chuck in some Cumbrian dialect now and again.

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Relatvely mild Black Country-ish (not Brummie).

Went to school in Home Counties, so use that most of the time.
Geordie with me mates.(Lived back in Toon more than half my life)
Can do Mackem and Hartlepool/Teesside/Darlo at a push.
Quite a good mimic actually, if I say so myself 🙂
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Mix of Esseeeeex, hampshire and now kent. I've been asked if I'm Australian a few times before, but i reckon they were just thick people!

I don't have an accent.

Dads from Banbury, mums from Elgin, and I live in gloucester... Mixed up?

You that David Beckham ... that’s me that is.

Nasally Estuary English ... that probably really grates most of you, as it does me when I hear myself. 😳 😆

When drink with local friends I am a Brummy with the odd bit of Yam Yam thrown in, the more I drink the stronger the accent! Without beer I have a reasonably inoffensive south midlands accent with the odd Brummy word.

Mid-southern commoner, me.

If you think of a Cornish accent and move eastwards, gradually it loses some of the oo-ar-ness. Southampton still retains some of the twang, but I'm a bit east of there so just sound fick.

West Country with a tinge of Welsh, Herfordian, Worcester, Brummie and Mancunian thrown in.

Sussex/Hants border and Pompey 'tongue'. Think Rambling Syd Rumpo meets the Krays.

Dads from Banbury

Orroight moi duuck, you goin dane tane?

(Translation: hello my dear, are you going into town?)

Lolling at ourman, right bunch of bumpkins!! LOL, my granddad lives just outside Banbury his accent is sooooo farmer!!!

Essex chav.

Soft SE Cornish

Born, raised and still live in Leicester (the shame), so a boring, pretty non descript midland accent.

Plus the ridings poo!

Mixture really. Lost most of my Malvern accent when I moved to London, so now it's a mix of middle england, a bit brizzle/FOD/cornwall at times with a smidge of midland (dare I say kidderminster).

Of course when I'm around yokells I revert almost immediately into 'talk like a farmer' mode.

Oddest thing, I lived in Newcastle for a bit, but the accent didn't really come out until I moved to Glasgow.

Weegies still take the piss as I can't do their home phrases (or pronounce towns...) It just sounds wrong...

Essex boy. South-east coast, nasaly, estuary English. But I enunciate properly. I have developed quite a few West Country-isms since I moved here 20 years ago.

Mine would be the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_English ]Pittsburghese[/url] dialect of American English.

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"Yinz talk funny in England n'at."
"Don't make funna me, ya jagoff!"

Deepest darkest South Wales Valleys. I could have narrated Ivor the Engine. Tidy like see butt.

Kind of mid Atlantic apparently, courtesy of my parents choice of school and them both being very well spoken teacher types.

Often mistaken for Canadian / Scots mix.

I love accents and dialect, I meet lots of folk through work and always try to workout where they are originally from based on their accent.

I have Peebles accent, quite muted I think because my parents came from other parts of Scotland, a lot of my peers from school have very broad accents, I think because their parents were Peeblians as well.

I started having children when I lived in Leeds and tbh was dreading my weans having a Leeds accent, was glad when I got a job back up here when child number two was on the way. They are all broad Gala now, which actually might be worse.

I lived in Leeds for about 11 years and can just about pass as a native if I try, a few yorkshire words/expressions have made it into my vocabulary as well, 'my lass' used a lot when describing my girlfriend and 'appen when replying non-comitally to a question.
Conversely my Yorkshire girlfriend has started to develop a glottal stop after being up here for 11 years, she also uses no instead of not, mind instead of remember, aye and nuht instead of yes and no etc, still broad Yorkshire tho.

'ampshire!! with a bit of mockney twang from spending too many years working and socializing up that direction. So not Laandon and not full wurzel but somewhere inbetween (with lots of swearing).

posho RP speaker here.

but i live in Yorkshire, where they lynch people like me.

so i've had to adopt the northern 'A'.

'barth' has become 'bath'

'grarss' has become 'grass'

etc.

but mum tells me off when i go home talking all funny - so i'm basically bi-lingual.

tha'kno's, now tha' comes t'mention it. I dun't reckon a'st getten an accent.

I'm told I speak German with a pronounced Bayerisch accent though 😛

proper working class southside glasgow(rutherglen/castlemilk borderlands to be exact). I suspect I'd need to use my phone voice to be understood by most on here.

Teesside,full on unlike some of the middle class Doyles above.

My Oxford based company would say Northern, people in Leeds would say posh so not quite sure.

I grew up in the Vale of York so certainly not a broad accent but definitely from round these parts.

Tom83 - Member

Mix of Esseeeeex, hampshire and now kent. I've been asked if I'm Australian a few times before, but i reckon they were just thick people!

i get asked that quite often. and some of those asking me have been either australian or from essex 😕

Ecky-Thump - Member

I'm told I speak German with a pronounced Bayerisch accent though

manche sag'n das i au oina boarisches ak'zent hob....

Turnip-top from Hicksville.

Yorkshire. I've lived in West Yorkshire all me life, but the wife's Dodworth accent's rubbed off, somewhat.
I work in Leeds, where i was told by a Polish guy that I had a strong accent. 'E dint know worriwere torkin abart.

Slight scouse

'Cheshire darling' Macclesfield to be precise. So somewhere between a northern monkey and well to do. Still find hearing myself totally weird though

Finest Ayrshire, complete with glottal stop.

R instead of yes

Black Country Lite

Baaaarnsley. although lost it now after moving around the country a few times and now i've got some annoying accent comprising a mix of yorkshire/geordie. still go back into proper barnsley accent when i'm back home and cant say anything starting with h properly. my girlfriend and southern mates can't understand my granddad...