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What accent do you have?

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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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Gettingbysomehow · 29/05/2024 17:08

Joanne Lumley is the only way I can describe it even though I'm half Welsh and half Scottish genetically. I wasn't brought up in either of those places.

jlox · 29/05/2024 17:08

jlox · 29/05/2024 17:05

South london. I dont pronounce any T's unless its the first letter of the word. It feels really unnatural and abnormal if I try to.

And words with a Th are only said with a F.

Fing, barf, free = 3

Sahara123 · 29/05/2024 17:08

Fairly neutral slightly posh which I STILL feel self conscious about after living in Scotland for 30 years !

OkPedro · 29/05/2024 17:09

North Dublin but not really your typical North Dublin accent. A bit posh I suppose..My Mam sent us for elocution lessons 😆

TeamPolin · 29/05/2024 17:09

Generic midlands/northern - not really easy to pin down. Live in the South now so it's softened but the main giveaway is I've my flat northern vowels, bath rhymes with wrath etc.

TealDog · 29/05/2024 17:10

Brummie. I moved away for uni at 18, and then moved again not long after but my accent hasn’t really changed.

LizzieBennett73 · 29/05/2024 17:11

One of my colleagues told me that I talk "proper" on the phone whatever that means but I'm Gloucestershire born and bred. So perhaps 80% Princess Anne with a 20% of Gloucester rugby shed oooh arrrrhh.

My Uncle can really roll his r's and sounds proper Gloucester.

Iamacatslave · 29/05/2024 17:11

Thames estuary 😃

Moier · 29/05/2024 17:12

I sound like Jane Mcdonald.
Well l do live very near her and went to same schools.

spiderplantmum · 29/05/2024 17:15

Surrey but also slightly unidentifiably European (lived in a European country until I was 3, raised by European parents, didn't learn English until I moved here!). Most English people don't notice it but anyone from anywhere else always ask where I'm from ("no, I mean where are you originally from?")

NeonSky · 29/05/2024 17:15

A soft Lancashire accent.

When I lived down south, so many people I worked with used to comment on how strong it was and liked to do (bad) impressions, when I moved back up north, I had people saying “ ooo you sound posh” or telling me my accent had changed.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 29/05/2024 17:16

I don't really know - I listen to my voice in horror when someone plays it back to me. "Works in Ryanair Customer Services" is the best way I can describe it.

mathanxiety · 29/05/2024 17:17

@CelesteCunningham

Yes, I don't have the ROCK dorsh-speak accent either, thank God. Mine is south Dublin as it once was. I feel like a relic.

BatshitCrazyWoman · 29/05/2024 17:17

ladybirdsanchez · 29/05/2024 16:48

Generic well-spoken southern English. No one can ever guess where I'm from!

Same here. I grew up in Kent (near Tunbridge Wells).

ColinRobinsonsFart · 29/05/2024 17:18

Posh Cheshire that goes into board Mancunian when pissed/angry.

princesspeppax · 29/05/2024 17:19

Glaswegian!

Fontainebleau007 · 29/05/2024 17:21

Southern English but moved to Northern Ireland a few years ago. My family have noticed a twang in my accent now 😂

Pieceofpurplesky · 29/05/2024 17:24

North West, Cheshire. The accent here has changed a lot from my parents generation - people can never place me, until I say grass and bus

GirlInTheMirror27 · 29/05/2024 17:27

South east kent mixed with a southern African and German accent. It's mixed up Grin

Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 29/05/2024 17:33

Neutral middle class Irish, difficult to pin down for most. Turns into pure Cork guurrl after 2 glasses of pinot grigio.

Jewelanemone · 29/05/2024 17:37

Born and raised in Devon, elocution lessons as a child, lived in Surrey for the past 12 years. I'd say RP but the Devon comes back when I'm drunk or angry.

RandomUsernameHere · 29/05/2024 17:56

A slight London accent mixed with what people would describe as fairly "well spoken".

GentlemanJohnny · 29/05/2024 17:57

Sarf London.

nupnup · 29/05/2024 17:58

Westfacing · 29/05/2024 16:46

Born and raised in south London, moved to Surrey in my teens. It's helped my vocabulary tremendously.

What helped your vocabulary tremendously? Is this thread not about accents?

I pronounce my T's better now. And speak more clearly.

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Cattery · 29/05/2024 18:02

That’s your pronunciation

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