Do you have a strong local accent?

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I do! If I hear it on a recording I am surprised at how strong it is. When I did a voice message to a family member I did it about ten times but couldn’t disguise it!

I don’t mind the accent but it isn’t particularly attractive.

I spoke to an old friend recently after many years and she had such a lovely voice/accent and we are from the same area.

Do you have a strong local accent and how do you feel about it?

I have an accent that is a combination of the places I've lived in. You can also tell I'm a Welsh speaker from my accent if you know what to listen for and that sometimes confused people as to my geographical origin.

No accent - RP if that counts?

Same. I got told I sounded like the Queen by someone in Australia.

West of Scotland so yes I'd say pretty distinct, although I hear a lot stronger daily. My auntie emigrated to the US and lived the 50 years till her death but never lost her accent. I think she prided herself on it.

Same. I am now more Lancashire than anything else though!

I've lived in North Wales and South Wales for considerable amounts of time. To people in the north I sound very very south, to people in the south I sound very very north 😂

No, and having moved away and gone back to visit family, I'm glad as the local accent sounds worse than I remembered!

At university, I was told, "You're from the North, but not Geordie or Scouse"... and that was as specific as it got. Apparently, I sound like a posh northerner... which had people questioning my mother (very broad northern accent) where I got that accent from.

Now that I am lucky enough to live in Wales, I get a lot of people asking where I'm from, because I don't have the local accent (even in English) there, either. My attempts at Welsh have been jokingly described as "mongrel Welsh", courtesy of asking people who originally came from all over North Wales to tell me how to say things in Welsh!

I don't when speaking English.

Apparently I have a strong Belgian accent when speaking French though.

Born in Northampton to parents from Bedford and London, grew up in Plymouth, moved to London at 18. I have accumulated hints of local accents at times but I don't sound like I'm from anywhere in particular. My dad especially has a neutral accent, mum has the Bedford creep in only when she's on the phone to a relative. My sister stayed in the south west and now has a regional accent, but none of us has a strong accent.

I do find some presenters with strong accents hard to listen to, especially Manchester or north east, but not unpleasant....just takes more concentration!

People tell me I’m ‘posh’ but I just have a standard RP way of speaking for people born and raised in the SE; I tend to think of it as ‘no accent’.

Yes, Yorkshire accent here. Not very strong, as the rough edges were smoothed off by Grammar school/college, but still hanging on in there despite many years spent living in Merseyside. I still occasionally greet people with "Ayup!" or "Nah then" just to keep the flag flying.

You probably do have an accent but that it is not noticeable in the company you keep.

I don't think I have an accent and am told I sound posh, but a colleague with English as a third language said she struggled with my regional accent.

I've moved around a lot so I've probably picked up little traits, and am originally from somewhere where the accent isn't a strongly identifiable one.

I ging in tae that when I lose meh temper.
If ye kin fit I mean min🤔

I don't think I have a strong Bristolian accent (like Jodie Gibson or Justin Lee Collins), but more of a general West country twang. It may be due to the fact that I have kentish parents , a Scottish DH, went to school with girls from all over the world, and have worked with colleagues and clients for whom English isn't their first language.

North London with a bit of an Aussie twang due to family and living there

I'm originally from Cumbria but don't have a local accent. I have sort of a generically northern accent and most people can't pinpoint where I'm from, other than somewhere up north. My mum fancied herself as being slightly posh, so that's probably why she drummed the local accent out of me.

Touch of Hampshire Hog here.

I lived in so many places growing up, including abroad (military child) that I don’t really have a “natural” accent. I’m also autistic and I’ll take on the accent of whoever is talking to me. Generally though, I have a soft Lancashire accent as I’ve lived here half my life now but people can sometimes tell I’m “not from round here”.

I didn't think so until I went to university, encountered proper posh Londoners for the first time, and they thought I was Welsh (I'm not, but I am from the Marches).

It's still an accent. The idea that there's a standard English non-accent makes no sense.

The SE is big enough to have lots of local accents. To give you an idea, I can easily tell the difference between Hitchin and Stevenage accents, even though they are only about 5 miles apart. Oh and there's even a difference between 'Old' Stevenage and 'New' Stevenage.

Similar has happened to me, I moved to Newcastle 20 years ago.

I have been having numerous conversations at work about litter pickers (litt a pick as) and cringing at how fake Geordie I sound. But I can no longer say it any other way.

SE London Cockney. I quite like it. Saaank to be proud of x

Mine is definitely Belfast. With the hard edges knocked off. I think. But I’m generally surprised at how broad my accent sounds on video recordings. And I always sound quite monotone and vaguely irritated, as if I have a bone to pick with somebody😆

God help me, I have a strong Rotherham accent.