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?

But where I live many educated people in professional jobs have a local accent. Or do you mean something else by middle class?

The only time I come unstuck with my accent is with voice recognition stuff.

4 to me is foe-err but I have to put on a faux English accent to get it to work.

My mum was born in Stepney, but she sounded like the bloody Queen !

It's IPA. ɡreɪt is like 'grait'. The other one has the 'ea' in great like a long eh sound (like in wear/ware or there)

Mine comes out after a glass of wine or when I'm singing girl guide songs!

South London accent consider very mild where I grow up council estates near Croydon but not a Croydon accent.
Now live in the west country everyone think im a cockney my land lord calls Margate lol no where near London lol.
I work with other people from south east with stronger accent them myself

I've got a very strong yokel, hurdle bunter, sheep sh*gger accent which is mistaken for Welsh, Gloucester and on one occasion, Irish!! Shropshire/welsh borders but if you go east of the County, it's quite yam yam!!

New Addington?

This makes me think of Sophie Willan. Are you from Bolton??

Born in Cumbria. Lived in the NE for 30yrs. I have a bit of a hybrid accent. Cumbrians think I sound like a Geordie. Geordies know I'm not one.😁

I’ve often wondered if I do.

Broad Lancashire here. I've lived abroad for 17 years and still sound very broad. I tone it down at work but to the kids it's all ey up, tint in tin, etc.

I particularly love the expressions: bone to pick with you, trouble t'mill cock, hold yer horses etc etc

me too, well North London, though 18 months of living in Somerset is starting to mellow it. I practice every day though. I live near and work in Bath and I’m doing my best to keep pronouncing it Barf!

it used to drive my mum insane. She sent me to elocution lessons but they went over my head.

I said no more than 4 or 5 words to a complete stranger last week and he said " you're not from round here"!
I'm from Wiltshire, not lived there since I was 18 - lived here (Northants) since my.late twnties, and I'm now 80!
You can take the girl out of Wiltshire, but you can't take Wiltshire out of the girl.

No - NE Scotland

Eeh by gum! I 'as no accent. Just normal, tis everybody else.

No, I think private school removes most traces of any regional accent. I’m from Manchester but to southerners, I sound a little northern. To northerners, I apparently sound southern. I wish I did have a regional accent; it gives you roots and a sense of belonging to a specific time and place.

That's really sad. I love going anywhere in the world and when talking to strangers having that 'You sound like you're from my neck of the woods' conversation.

Ha thanks, Scouse x Scottish is interesting 😂

No, because I grew up in the east end of London and if you retain your accent people assume you are either stupid or a criminal. Mine faded when I moved away to uni.

ETA it does come back when I'm either drunk or angry....

Mine's a modern RP accent rather than the more traditional, clipped RP of the late Queen. People generally describe it as 'posh'. I do very much appreciate the variety of accents and dialects across the UK. I'm definitely a fan of a Geordie accent and love the softest of Welsh. I do find Northern Irish accents a bit harsh on the ear sometimes.

West London convent school girl. Make of that what you will. 😉

Strong Berwick accent. People struggle to understand me, and that is frustrating. I've had southerners look panicked when I've spoken, like that Catherine Tate sketch where she thinks the Geordie nanny is going to attack her kids.

I am from Lancashire, but extremely broad and often get mistaken for being from Yorkshire.

I’m a Brummie and I hate mine. I don’t think it’s all that strong, but it’s so embarrassing hearing myself on a recording. My kids say my accent becomes stronger when I’m angry 🤣

I was reading something recently about someone who had an accident and when they came round they started sparking with a Geordie accent, even though they were from nowhere near there! I thought I wish that would happen to me. I love a Geordie accent. At work there was a bloke on an IT Helpline we used with a gorgeous Geordie accent. I loved it when he answered the calls and I used to say “pardon” a lot just so he’d keep talking!