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What accent do you have?

202 replies

nupnup · 29/05/2024 15:21

Just that!

I'll start.

I have a mixed south London accent come Surrey accent.
I basically queens English with a slight chav twang.
Born and raised in south London, moved to Surrey in my teens. It's helped my vocabulary tremendously.

What accent do you have?

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cerisepanther73 · 29/05/2024 16:04

@RoseyLentil

That's even more intriguing 🤔 that this happens naturally like you blend in linguistically whatever place your at ect,

What does home 🏡 was RP in your ubove post mean ?

Thanks

sandorschicken · 29/05/2024 16:07

Broad Barnsley. Wouldn't have it any other way!

VeryQuaintIrene · 29/05/2024 16:08

RP with a bit of London overlaid with a little bit of US southern as I've lived there for nearly 30 years and can y'all with the best of them (I think...)

DokoE · 29/05/2024 16:08

Moderately "refined" Yorkshire accent here - the rough edges were knocked off at Grammar School and College pretty smartly. Think female Alan Bennett.

Berlinlover · 29/05/2024 16:09

West of Ireland.

Cattery · 29/05/2024 16:09

South London Cockney accent

Rockschooldropout · 29/05/2024 16:10

Southern with a mix of North Walian , Cambridgeshire fens and a dash of Gloucestershire thrown into the mix …
Im from N Wales but have lived all over .. currently in the Cotswolds …. It’s a very confused accent 🤣

esmeisa · 29/05/2024 16:10

JaneIves · 29/05/2024 15:33

Sarf London.
Although I titrate how broad it can be depending on company and circumstance, and I don't drop my T's like a lot of my family do.

I get asked often if I'm Australian, linguistically there's a very close link between cockney/Australian accents.

Definitely Essex/ cockney but not too strong and I do occasionally use consonants!
However, I've also been mistaken for an Australian which I found weird. I put it down to watching too much Neighbours and home and away!

fiddleleaffig · 29/05/2024 16:10

Southern with a twang is how I describe it.
Born and raised in the south east but dm is northern (grass with an ass not an arse 😉) and df is Dublin/Irish.

muddyford · 29/05/2024 16:16

Home Counties but a tad more neutral as I have lived and worked all over. I have kept 'intit?' from my Yorkshire days as it's much nicer than the 'innit?' of my upbringing. Currently in the southwest but it's had absolutely no effect on my accent.

RallySooney · 29/05/2024 16:16

A soft Dublin accent.

Funnywonder · 29/05/2024 16:19

Belfast, with the hard edges knocked off (except when I'm shouting🤣)

HunterHearstHelmsley · 29/05/2024 16:20

Black Country. Not really broad and definitely not Brummie.

bilgewater · 29/05/2024 16:21

A variation of Surrey/London/Estuary I think. Northern DH thinks I'm insufferably posh because you know, southern - and actual posh people think I'm the artful dodger.

PickAChew · 29/05/2024 16:21

It wanders around the Northeast and East Yorkshire, depending on who I'm talking to and whether we have snerr on the ground or not. It occasionally throws in a Midlands - inG from my yoof but has lost the traces of East Lancashire it developed as a reaction to ex criticising me for saying things wrong.

Echobelly · 29/05/2024 16:22

Depends who you ask. Some people think I sound posh, others (like my MIL) think I sound 'common', yet others quite often think I'm Ozzie/Kiwi/South African (I'm not).

It's basically a middle class state school North London accent.

I definitely almost involuntarily change it depending on who I'm talking to, I can up the Norf Landan dropped 'hs' or enunciate more given context. I guess it happens as I move between quite a lot of contexts and groups and I pick up on the norms within those.

CelesteCunningham · 29/05/2024 16:22

South county Dublin, but the old one, not ROCK dorsh-speak.

With a northern twang as I've been in NI nearly 20 years.

Lampzade · 29/05/2024 16:25

Was born and brought up in South London but I don’t have a South London accent
I now live in Kent
My mother was obsessed with making me and my siblings speak’well’ and made us watch the news
She wanted us to speak like Trevor McDonald , Selina Scott , Angela Rippon et al

DramaAlpaca · 29/05/2024 16:26

Unspecific north west English accent with a bit of soft west of Ireland thrown in, thanks to living there for many years.

Tisfortired · 29/05/2024 16:27

Generic northern with a manc twang. We moved all over growing up but family is from Manchester and I settled here with my family.

Owlplant · 29/05/2024 16:27

Wigan with a touch of manc

MrsTerryPratchett · 29/05/2024 16:28

JaneIves · 29/05/2024 15:33

Sarf London.
Although I titrate how broad it can be depending on company and circumstance, and I don't drop my T's like a lot of my family do.

I get asked often if I'm Australian, linguistically there's a very close link between cockney/Australian accents.

Exactly this.

Maxentia · 29/05/2024 16:28

South Dublin/co wicklow hints - perhaps - I don't think it'd be obvious where I'm from.

Maxentia · 29/05/2024 16:31

CelesteCunningham · 29/05/2024 16:22

South county Dublin, but the old one, not ROCK dorsh-speak.

With a northern twang as I've been in NI nearly 20 years.

Ha ha same, I was going to say I don't say gorrrrgeous with 5 rrrrs. I pronounce a t as a t not a d.

newnamethanks · 29/05/2024 16:33

RP with London inflexions.