If you have a strong regional accent do you like it?

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I moved about as a child so have never really had a strong accent, I always 'switched' to fit in with my peers. I live abroad now and tend to flit between a Scottish and weak Scouse accent depending on who I'm talking to but I'm always slightly envious of people who've kept their accent no matter where they live

I am from Birmingham (no not black country) but no, I can't stand my accent. Mines isn't particularly strong but strong enough for me to try to pronounce my words different to how is natural.

I haven't lived in my hometown for 30 years. Still people ask where I am from as I don't sound like I live where I actually live!! Didn't think I sound that non native but I guess I must!!

Yup. I have a strong mackem accent. I tone it down at work as some of my EsoL students struggle with it but otherwise I like it.

Brummie and Scouse have negative connotations but Geordie and Scottish accents are seen as friendly and welcoming 🤔

Have held onto my Glaswegian accent despite 14 years living down South!

I love mine. I’m from Hull but don’t live there anymore but I am broad as they come. Bloody love it. It’s really nasal and misses half the consonants and elongates the vowels.

14 years, I'd say that's an achievement but I don't think Glaswegian ever dies out!

I hear my accent cone out at times and how I feel depends on the context. I'm Cornwall, it's fine; I'm a professional context elsewhere in the UK, I try to minimise it. I avoid using dialect unless I'm with my family in Cornwall.

My husband has a strong black country accent and he hates it. 15 years of living in london toned it down, but it’s held him back at work.

We’ve had to move back to the black country and he’s determined that the kids won’t pick it up.

I don't have a strong accent as such but the odd word comes out strange to my Cockley friends. To them I sound Northern (anywhere north of Watford is Northern) but I come from the East Midlands.

@MonkeyPuddle

I love mine. I’m from Hull but don’t live there anymore but I am broad as they come. Bloody love it. It’s really nasal and misses half the consonants and elongates the vowels.

I do love a strong Yorkshire accent - my mother is from W Yorkshire but left 60 years ago so it's rare to hear her speaking in her mother tongue.

I do find Northern women have deep voices though!

I do use Cockley vernacular a lot at home. My swearing rate has risen exponentially. DH comes from a working class South London family. You rarely hear his accent round our way now.

I have a Geordie accent and hate it. It sounds really harsh to my ears!

*Cockney!

@PiccalilliChilli

*Cockney!

I wondered if Cockley was posh Cockney 🤔😅

I have a noticeable Estuary accent, although it isn't Gemma Collins level.

I like it, and it feels like me when I speak. Sometimes in the past I have felt like I have to tone it down for people to be willing to listen to me. I hate that.

I was once told that I was uneducated, unattractive, ignorant and lazy, by a Mumsnet user, for admitting that I naturally pronounce 'th' as 'f' in free running speech. I hold quite a grudge as to that.

Mild Merseyside when stressed or in the area (which I rather like), otherwise a kind of generic educated northern. I also moved a fair bit around the north west growing up, and my parents were from opposite ends of the country to one another - so I guess there was never the constant exposure to an accent to really make one take hold.

Love mine (cockney) but can switch out of it when necessary. I also speak v fast so have to slow it down if I go away somewhere

I do like it, and it helps me in my work as it's a straightforward and friendly accent that people find approachable and trustworthy, according research, anyway.

And like SaberToothKitten said, when stressed it comes out more. I can launch in to full on Oi Oi when I’m having a bad day.

@Iampicklerick

And like SaberToothKitten said, when stressed it comes out more. I can launch in to full on Oi Oi when I’m having a bad day.

Ha yes I can turn Scouse when someone pisses me off

@ItsAHardKn0ckLife1

I have a Geordie accent and hate it. It sounds really harsh to my ears!

I love a Geordie accent but can't understand a lot of the words used

Broad Mancunian accent here! I love my accent, although I do sometimes end up sounding like Liam or Frank Gallagher if I’ve had a drink

Mine is strong and not that nice. I have lived somewhere with one of the most attractive accents for nearly 20 years. Mine hasn't changed a bit.

I was thinking last night that the accents on this years love island are mostly awful. But I'm not sure if that's because they are strong or it's the drawling way they speak.