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Can you guess the accent?

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NavyKitchen · 27/07/2020 01:22

If I write in my accent, can guess what it is? Let me 'hear' your accent...

"I af t' look wen a cross oarva the street"

That was harder than I thought! Where am I from?
Write any sentence in your accent...

OP posts:
RightOnTheEdge · 27/07/2020 01:24

Yorkshire?

YouSofunny · 27/07/2020 01:27

Liverpool

JamieLeeCurtains · 27/07/2020 01:27

Are we in Viz territory with 'oarva'?

Or Emmerdale?

SwedishEdith · 27/07/2020 01:27

Cumbria?

YouSofunny · 27/07/2020 01:28

C'mare ouha dah!

Where am I from?

SleepingStandingUp · 27/07/2020 01:29

Yau aye lookin propa if you goo an get run ova am ya?

RightOnTheEdge · 27/07/2020 01:31

Although if it wer Yorkshire, ada missed out "the"
"I af t' look wen a cross ovva street"

Zoomintheroom · 27/07/2020 01:32

@NavyKitchen Geordie

NavyKitchen · 27/07/2020 01:34

I couldn't get 'over' right! Haha don't sound the r in it.
I'm from Lancashire

OP posts:
FlorenceFlounce · 27/07/2020 01:34

Yorkshire

YouSofunny · 27/07/2020 01:36

SleepingStandingUp Glasgow

YouSofunny · 27/07/2020 01:37

Liverpool is near to Lancashire!! I win. Suckers.

FlorenceFlounce · 27/07/2020 01:38

Oh lol! Cross posted 😅

I’m from the southerly part of Lancashire and I’m disappointed that I couldn’t tell lol 😂

I’d have written;

I after luk wen a cross ova the road

SwedishEdith · 27/07/2020 01:40

Where in Lancashire? I typed Bolton first and then changed it to
Cumbria.

YouSofunny · 27/07/2020 01:41

But it's the rooad in Lancashire. No roads there.

queenmother · 27/07/2020 01:42

I was going to guess Bolton or Oldham

ElizabethMainwaring · 27/07/2020 01:44

@YouSofunny

SleepingStandingUp Glasgow
Nooo! Black Cunt-ray!
MrsTerryPratchett · 27/07/2020 01:50

Do me:

Wat the faaaking 'ell woz you finking abaaat? Innit.

Well that was me 30 years ago. Innit?

avamiah · 27/07/2020 01:54

Love this.
A scouser of course .
I should know I’m one .
Haha

RightOnTheEdge · 27/07/2020 01:56

MrsTerryPratchett
London? Sounds like Eastenders.

avamiah · 27/07/2020 01:57

A saying from Liverpool
“Me Ma said your a head case”
Lol

hellsbells99 · 27/07/2020 01:57

London - Eastend?

YouSofunny · 27/07/2020 01:58

Sauf London man innit

MrsTerryPratchett · 27/07/2020 01:59

@YouSofunny

Sauf London man innit
Abso-fucking-lutely.

Eastenders my arse.

avamiah · 27/07/2020 02:00

Mrs TerryPratchett,
Bethnal Green, London .

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