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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...

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NavyKitchen · 27/07/2020 10:54

@MyDarlingWhatIfYouFly Birmingham?

OP posts:
Querencia · 27/07/2020 10:54

Ay up me ducks, cannay I join?

NavyKitchen · 27/07/2020 10:55

@Querencia Nottingham?

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Mammyloveswine · 27/07/2020 10:58

Am gannin oot, tell me mam!

BobbinThreadbare123 · 27/07/2020 11:04

Worra yeh doin, yeh absolute blairt?

SwedishEdith · 27/07/2020 11:23

Deffo Scouse if using blert.

BobbinThreadbare123 · 27/07/2020 11:30

Yep!

mccavitythethird · 27/07/2020 19:08

@Justawaterformeplease

Yeah chilly bin is definitely NZ!
Yep, NZ. Sadly not there right now though.
Zisforstripyoss · 27/07/2020 19:30

Querencia - Leicester
SleepingStandingUp - Black Country
Mammyloveswine - Geordie

Delbelleber · 27/07/2020 19:35

@MyDarlingWhatIfYouFly

Wales?

Delbelleber · 27/07/2020 19:37

@Mammyloveswine
Newcastle?

@BobbinThreadbare123

Liverpool?

Mammyloveswine · 27/07/2020 20:48

@Delbelleber ha yes!

Delbelleber · 27/07/2020 21:03

:)

NotExactlyHappyToHelp · 27/07/2020 21:07

@Querencia gotta be Stoke right?

@SleepingStandingUp the second I read that I knew it was proper Black Country. Love that accent!

Oblomov20 · 27/07/2020 21:33

Ohhhh errrr my Lover.
It be 'ansome.
Where it be to?

supersonicginandtonic · 27/07/2020 21:41

Weerz me mam!
Goin t'werk!
How's thee doin?
Can't grumble!
Tha Allas late.
Bagsy last biscuit!
Stop faffin.
Gaffers on his way.
Some popular sayings when I was growing up.
We also don't pronounce the H on the beginning of words.
So orse, otel, Orrible, Arry.

supersonicginandtonic · 27/07/2020 21:41

@Oblomov20 Bristol?

mintyroller · 27/07/2020 22:33

"Wherr wur ye yisturdy then?"

Delbelleber · 27/07/2020 23:53

Yorkshire @mintyroller

UsernameNotValid · 27/07/2020 23:58

@mintyroller, good auld weegie accent there?

UsernameNotValid · 28/07/2020 00:00

"A really dinna ken fit hawf a these fouks are on about ma quine"

Delbelleber · 28/07/2020 00:06

@UsernameNotValid Aberdeen?

Querencia · 28/07/2020 00:07

@NavyKitchen

You guessed correctly!

UsernameNotValid · 28/07/2020 00:14

Close enough @Delbelleber :o

Delbelleber · 28/07/2020 00:27

Ah cool Smile

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