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.
Nothing wrong with being a Henry 😆 Henry being my surname 😆
My grandson who is 7 lives in Carlisle as does my granddaughter who is also 7 have got totally different accents. Grandson by my daughter and partner has aquired this posh accent whereas granddaughter by my son is broad Cooombrian like her mother and her family.
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.
