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anyone who says 'Brummie' is wrong.
North West Wales accent is the worst on the planet, it's pretty much just gargling phlegm.
So soon, I'm sure we had this a couple of weeks ago?
Scouse seems to make my scabs bleed for some reason.
Mockney is pretty bloody annoying though.
yammers
Adrian Chiles's
I'm more worried by what people say rather than the accent they use saying it.
Jafaican, innit bruv.
Faux Scouse
“Yours”
anyone who goes up the end? like that?
*you're doing it your head aren't you!
Adrian Chiles's
is the right answer
Scouse followed by Cockney. Both make me think I am going to be robbed. Geordie is third because I'm fed up with the faux matey homeliness that Geordies always seem so keen to promote. The rest are all pretty good I think. I especially like a west country accent as I'm from that neck of the woods.
Bizarrely, living in London I hardly hear a cockney accent cos they've all moved out to the 'burbs. In fact, you hear more in Spain that you do in inner London. I do accept that what a person says is of prime importance, not their accent.
Jafaican, innit bruv.
Fuh reelz fam yahgetmethoblud?
Wirral faux scouse accent is bad
haughty
West Country accent for no other reason that he ( hh45 ) dissed Geordies as being fake friendly ..numpty! 😆
( see ..we are not that friendly )
I actually said that on the other thread too..
I do find the London accent grates a bit.
To make up for it, the Glaswegian accent makes me feel all funny inside.
Rachel
I dislike the 'no accent' posh thing.
We have such a diverse set of accents in the UK that it should be celebrated, not avoided.
Adrian Chiles's
is the right answer
From Hagley isnt he?
Seems about right
Geordie.
Would those Irish people up there ^^^^^ find the queen difficult to understand?
A Mackem lifting his head above the parapet ..thought you had all gone into hiding ..does your Maa & Daa know you have come out to play ? 😆
A Mackem lifting his head above the parapet ..thought you had all gone into hiding ..does your Maa & Daa know you have come out to play ?
sorry, i just can't understand you.
English, all of them, equally.
cockney. makes me very angry and annoyed, no idea why.
We have such a diverse set of accents in the UK that it should be celebrated
RP is just one of the many diverse accents we have in the UK. Celebrate it! 🙂
Mackem .. 😆
Unfortunately I wish I could say the same ..but I have a daughter now 26 who was born & still lives in Sunland...so I had to learn the lingo.
Thankfully I wasn't tainted with your twang while living there ..
Not regional but proper RP. Even my mum (and the queen) don't do it anymore.
Mockney makes me see red.
Scouse can be great, except when it's coming from shrieking drunk birds. Then I want to pull my middle ears out through my eyeballs.
Dick mucking Van Dike and Jamie Oiliver and there bastard mockney accents, hard to hear a real Cockney in London it’s been taken over by the generic Thames Estuary accent, init d’owe spar...
Interested to know what a real cockney accent is?
Ouch, as someone who was born within the sound of the Bow Bells it seems a lot of you would hate me..
That Danny Dyer has a lot to answer for
hh45 - Member
Scouse followed by Cockney. Both make me think I am going to be robbed.
haha Sh1thouse
I dislike the 'no accent' posh thing.
We have such a diverse set of accents in the UK that it should be celebrated, not avoided.
For me, it's the "fake posh" accent that's creeping in especially with young women. First noticed it at my old workplace, they became more and more like it over time, and in the 9 years I've been in Bristol, it's become incredibly obvious. Strangely, when I go to our London office, there's a mishmash of accents from round the country, in the same roles, with none of the "fake" thing. Not figured that one out yet, but maybe there's a social mirroring effect with Bristol having 2 unis? I'd be gutted if I hadn't met my Mrs years ago as it'd be a dealbreaker if I met someone now with the fake Made in Chelsea thing going on!!
Scouse sounds very rough to me ...
Agree that our diverse accents should be celebrated and enjoyed
Shame when people feel the need to hide their heritage eg Bliar going estuary or that ballet lady on Stictly
But then again I have never had a Brunmie accent despite being born there and bred not far away!
Reminded me of this project where they were trying to record regional accents and phrases for certain words.
[url= http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/BBC-Voices/021M-C1190X0043XX-1501V0 ]Hawick speak[/url]
For some reason if you draw a line from Liverpool through Manchester and into the sea and go 50 miles above and below, all the accents around there seem to grate. But then I hate my own sort of south east estuary-ish accent even more.
Essexxxxxx.........Mark Wright, Joey Essex and Co, just cant listen to them I have to turn the TV over if they appear on something.
Any accent where the owner feels that have to over-emphasise to the rest of us where they come from.
Glaswegian, Scouse.
The whole street 'ting is seriously ****ing cringey though. I wish that shit would die.
Elliot has it nailed. As for the Essex accent of joey Essex etc, they have London accents. Real Essex accents a bit different lol
Real Essex accents a bit different lol
I used to work for a company that had a factory near the Essex/Suffolk border. Oo arr bootiful it were
Anyone who sounds like they're off Eastenders, especially women. I make perfectly rational informed judgements of you instantly, if you have "that" accent.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by their accent, but by the content of their character.
Otherwise, wherever in Siberia Nicola Sturgeon hails from.
English ones
Any fake regional accent, i.e. as affected by radio presenters in an effort to make themselves sound cool. Following closely behind is the habit of dropping Ts and pronouncing words ending -er as -ah, as in "Manchestah". It makes the speaker sound like a complete fake.
Amusingly, in some words you can't drop the T, as in Manchestah, which would sound really bogus as "Manchesah"
Amusingly, in some words you can't drop the T, as in Manchestah, which would sound really bogus as "Manchesah"
Bit tangential but in some varieties of north-east accents Ts do get dropped from surprising places.
Shame when people feel the need to hide their heritage eg Bliar going estuary or that ballet lady on Stictly
I was more heading in that direction than dragging against recieved pronunciation. Proper RP is fine if that's your heritage, fake RP when you're from somerset or barnsley is the the type that grates
As a young teen living in North West Durham ..we were frequently amused by the landlords mother answering the phone behind the bar in our local ..when her strong geordie accent took a turn for the "better" ..
On one lunchtime session being unable to find her son( the call was for him) and having quite a full bar as an audience she took it upon herself to answer the callers query regarding an unpaid invoice ..leaving the caller to hang for a minute or two while she pretended to be looking for it she then picked up the handset and in her best Mrs.Bucket ( booQ ) pronounced " I'm really terribly sorry ..but he seems to have [b]hoyed[/b] it in the bin "..ended the call and then wondered why we were all doubled up on the floor with laughter ..
Hoyed= (Geordie for thrown)
I guess you had to be there though 🙂
That whole South London/Croyden/Grime/Mandem/RoadMan type thing is the absolute worst
Brummie is the most unfortunate.
that ballet lady on Stictly
Darcey Bussell? What heritage is she covering up?
Darcey Bussell? What heritage is she covering up?
A swipe at Darcey's parents I should think:
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For me, it's the "fake posh" accent that's creeping in especially with young women. First noticed it at my old workplace, they became more and more like it over time, and in the 9 years I've been in Bristol, it's become incredibly obvious.
Living close enough to Brissle to be familiar with the accent, I’m hardly surprised.
I do like some regional accents, of those that spring to mind are the pleasing mix of Irish tones in County Fermanagh, geordie I like and the rising inflection of Norfolk too.
However, the central south coast Southampton/Portsmouth accent is plain wrong on every level and I'm so very glad I no longer endure them on a daily basis.
Rough Scottish accents.
Particularly from the central belt.
Yuck!
globalti - Member
...... and pronouncing words ending -er as -ah, as in "Manchestah". It makes the speaker sound like a complete fake.
Not fake if you're actually from central/north Manchester.
Adopted and exaggerated by ****ers in bands and DJ's from Cheshire to try and sound more 'street'.