To find this incredibly irritating and rude?

Kids at DD’s WM school have teased her for not having a strong enough Welsh accent. 🤷🏻‍♀️

People are just twats.

Also love other regional accents tbh

Prepare for a YouTube binge.

https://youtube.com/shorts/wUZjQ8K9HfA?si=yqXnsZJCHg5oJrC-

I grew up in east London and live in Essex, I've had to soften/lose my accent over the years, otherwise people treat me as though I'm thick. I'm not. It's ridiculous and YANBU

My accent is strongly Lancashire, I've had nobbish northern monkey comments. But more often it's people trying to be funny, making "Ilkey moor b'awt hat" type comments - they can't even get the bloody county right 🙄
I kind of think mocking Welsh/Scottish/Irish accents is even more offensive.

There’s little doubt he was mocking you, and I’m sorry, @Whatonearth17. What a jerk. And I’m guessing he thought himself very clever.
I live in California amongst many Mexican people who speak Spanish - yet I struggle to speak the language. I only know a few short phrases and words and make it clear to the person I’m speaking to that that’s all I know - I would no more mock someone than I would bully them because mocking them IS bullying them.

When I hear the variation of Irish accents (Liam Neeson's included) my mind turns to mush 🤭

His accent isn't too bad, but as he got older and very established he seemed to refuse to do other accents for roles and just did his own....which we found weird and distracting.

For example, he was Zeus I think, in the Titans films and insisted on doing it in his own accent, which had us falling about laughing and cringing, instead of actually appreciating the film.

Anyway, I think you'd be popular.

English accents usually sound lovely to us.

Buaswn i wedi dweud wrtho fy mod yn falch o'm acen ac ei fod yn estrongasaol a digywilydd.

A guy from here I knew LOVED English accents on women.

(He was quite good looking but was an utter twat, I have to say).

I think most people like a different accent from their own.

Maybe we're all wired to introduce variation to the gene pool 😀.

Happened to me constantly when I lived in England. Very irritating.

I'm West Country, work in Wales.
Workmates occasionally make 'oo-arr' and comments, and mimic the way I say certain words.
I give back as good as I get.

My Welsh boss has an English/borders accent; he impersonates his Mum, who has a strong West-Wales accent: Duw, Duw, <name>bach, etc.

Thinking back, I used to mimic my Dad's fairly strong accent.

It's meant as a mild piss-take in our case. Was certainly meant affectionately when Dad and I talked.

It sounds to me like your old bloke was trying to be amusing and completely misjudged it.

Not always fun for the recipient.

😄 you think they'd appreciate my boring London accent? (Asking for a friend)

When I hear the variation of Irish accents (Liam Neeson's included) my mind turns to mush 🤭

Also love other regional accents tbh

Op, people didn't generally mock my accent in England but that's probably because a mild Northern Irish accent is not very easy to grasp.

As evidenced by Judi French in "Belfast", the actor playing the leader in the SAS history drama series, and even Sam Neill who's Dad is Northern Irish.

I did however get called a "colonial" on e on the basis of my accent, in Tesco.

@Whatonearth17 there's a technique to practice of asking them to repeat what they've just said.

Most people won't want to repeat themselves because they'll have had extra time to think.

Bleeuuurghh.

Coming from a Northern Irish woman.

My partner is also Northern Irish (Liam Neesom's area) and I just tune it out.

I would prefer pretty much any other accent in the world.

It's fine when it's banter between friends.

It's not fine otherwise and is very rude. Imagine mocking someone's accent. If you were non-white, people would find it very racist.

I think it doesn't help that some English people act like the whole world should speak English, and never make an effort with other languages.

But the Irish guy would probably like the fact that you don't have an Irish accent lol.

I’m a scouser so I literally have this every time I speak to anyone with a non-scouse accent. It generally doesn’t bother me but occasionally people push a bit far and it gets annoying.

Yep can confirm….

😄😄

Do you know what, the accent can elevate even the most average of men, do you think i could have one of those? 🤭🤭

for an englishman to do that in wales is very rude an odd-im english go to n.wales alot ido get mimic alot as im from london/essex they think its quite funny-would never mimic back thoughh

I’m Welsh and although I’ve lived in the SE of England for 20 years I still have a Welsh twang although it’s mellowed a lot, I’m not a native Welsh speaker but the SW Welsh town I’m from is known for a strong Welsh accent. While I don’t mind people imitating it I can’t stand people who go out of their way to not understand me because I have an accent.

I’d not really discussed it with anyone until recently when I mentioned it to a group of friends who all happened to be from other countries (European, East Asia and Middle East) but have lived in SE England for as long as I have. They are all fluent English speakers to the point of being able to do a biochemistry based MSc in English and they’ve all experienced this ‘not understanding’ things too. The offenders are not people who are hard of hearing as they can understand those with the ‘right’ accents, it’s an intentional act.

I'm Irish, good luck I'm your search for a hot Irish guy. We only have a few of them and they're all famous

This.

Or northerners are nicer / more polite? You decide.