To love the Scouse accent?

Yes my Liverpool friends are all Allerton way and have barely discernible scouse accents.

Surely most of us have both! 😅

You can definitely hear it's Irish origins if you listen close enough.

It's so exaggerated by so many people that it's become satirical. It's like they've developed accent blindness and don't realise how fucking stupid they sound. I'm from there and don't feel the need to half hock up some phlegm before I utter a sentence.

My man's a scouser had to ask him to slow down or repeat what he said at first 😂 but I love it, however the variations over Liverpool are different some scousers are quite raspy , they have slightly different Scouse accents, depending which part of Liverpool.

Same, do not like it.

I like very few accents though unless light. Irish is my fav.

Alright wack. My Bootle friend thinks that is from Irish ' a mhac' - basically my son. No idea what 'la' means. Great band though! The accent always makes me smile.

Ah eh

It's the magical blend of Irish, Welsh and Norwegian that gives the Scouse accent its uniqueness. Swear words and put downs sound so much better in scouse although I maybe be biased.....

@TheBirdintheCave , I once asked somebody if they were from a certain town. They were. I knew one person with exactly that accent. I've never been there and it's not a big town - there are larger villages in the UK.

I live in Liverpool (not from here) and there’s some nice sing song type accents but so many of them are clearly put on with the way people talk. It’s honestly hilarious at times with some of them. I quite enjoy some of the local slang at times.

@Iceache Lies, I'm an L post code 😂

@NoWordForFluffy Yup, I know where you are 😂

I now work in London and once had to take a photograph of a girl who was a new starter. We had a chat and I said 'Sorry, weird question but are you from X place?' And she looked so surprised and said 'Yes!'

She sounded exactly like my cousin 😂

I think the range and diversity of regional accents and dialects is one of our greatest national treasures. How boring would life be if everyone sounded (or looked, or thought) exactly the same?

We’d say you’re wools tbh 🤣

The posh zone is Allerton, Calderstones, Woolton, Childwall & Mossley Hill. These areas all have softer accents and generally good grammar (no ‘I seen / We was’ etc) and a much stronger student influence (students come from elsewhere and often stay in this area as a lot of the halls / student housing is based around here)

I’m from Liverpool and there are variations of the accent:

Older scousers tend to have a softer accent with a slight Irish lilt to it. You don’t hear it too much anymore but think The Beatles;

North Liverpool tends to be quite harsh and guttural;

South Liverpool tends to be softer but this part of the city is more affluent with a stronger influence from students who aren’t from here so that’s probably why;

Young lads tend to put it on a bit but grow out of it. I do love certain things they say though like ‘lad’ on the end of everything;

A lot of us have quite soft accents: my grammar is perfect and a lot of scousers think I don’t sound scouse, but people not from the city always do. My husband isn’t from the city though and I think his accent influences mine a lot!

I’m a scouser although I’ve lived all over the U.K./world in my life. My accent is probably the soft scouse accent.
I can tell if a scouser has Welsh or Irish roots just by the way they talk.

I'm in the posh zone too. The accent is a Lancs variant here though (there's also not a singular Lancs' accent either, as it varies across the county).

Yup 😂 I'm in the 'posh' zone 😅

Some people just sound thick because of what they say.

I can’t bear scouse, brummie or lancs accents. They make people sound thick. I love Geordie.

How about this then 😁

I blame Brookside for creating that extreme Scouse accent. No one spoke like that at school in the 70s and early 80s. How Alan Bleasedale speaks is more how the accent was to me then.

Look, if several posters are unaware that there is no such country as ‘Southern Ireland’, and that the term is fairly problematic for obvious reasons, AND think that said ‘Southern Ireland’ has a single accent, I doubt they’d be able to distinguish between different types of Scouse accent.

There's more than one Scouse accent. Old Scouse which is South Liverpool (Woolton/Garston/Calderstones/Aigburth etc.). South Liverpool is shared with over the water, Birkenhead/Tranmere etc.

Scouse which is more North Liverpool, Bootle/Walton-ish, think Jamie Carragher. Then round Huyton/Kirby/Prescot way it gets a bit hyper-hard Scouse, like Stephen Gerrard. Then there are mad variants like Skelmersdale/St Helens/Warrington/Runcorn (the Scouse contingent).John Bishop springs to mind.

People were moved out to those places, and others, in the mass destruction/rebuild years after the Second World War and on into the 50's/60's so working class Town accents were transplanted and changed and grew by themselves.

The thing about the kids is they are going for a hyper-hard exaggerated Scouse. But then the 'road men' do that with accents all over, wherever they are.

They are not uniformly spoken according to area either but are all mixed in along with Lancashire/Welsh/Norwegian/German/Irish/Chinese/India/wherever. It depends where your family is from/what school you went to/level of high faluntin'ness etc.

I don't know what accent Martin Freeman's doing, that's a mix of several and completely barmy.

Everyone thinks their own accent is the One, True Scouse though so what do I know 😬