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?

You need to watch this about the Scottish accent and voice recognition 😂

Im really embarrased of my accent. Im from Formby near Liverpool and Southport. We have a bit of a mix between Liverpool,Southport and Lancashire accent.
I used to live in different parts of the uk when i was younger due to being a dancer. I wish i had just one accent

I'm from the home counties but live in the west country so a lot of people here think I sound "posh". People from the home counties mostly think I am the opposite of posh!

Ds1 always thought he had a home counties accent until he went to uni in the north and people started telling him it was obvious he was from the west country because of his accent. He was a bit shocked!

At least you don't have a 'woollyback' accent 😉

Apologies to any woollybacks on here 😜

That's what it is like if you've a Scottish accent.

Despite not having lived in my home town in Lancashire for over 30 years, I'm told my regional accent is still strong. I only notice it if I hear a recording of myself speaking, or am trying to make myself understood using voice recognition. I end up repeating myself several times until the program gives up and puts me through to a human being.

I was in an Inverness hotel and the lift voice had a lovely local accent. Inverness is not a strong accent and not difficult to understand.

I read reviews on TripAdvisor and somebody had commented on the lift announcer speaking Polish.

🤣🤣🤣

Thats funny

Yes. I've got a strong Mackem accent. DH is as Geordie as they come - and ds is somewhere in between!

@HundredMilesAnHour I cannot imagine having five Shelties at the same time😁

I have had five shelties over the years but only one at a time. My fifth Sheltie is 13.5 years old and definitely showing her age (as am I!). 😂

Northern Irish accent here and hate hearing myself on videos.
My nephew is a school teacher in England and was told not to lose his NI accent as schoolchildren there find it intimidating 🤣

I'm familiar with the Formby area myself, lovely place 💖

I work in a job role where my voice is used a lot. I left a message for a customer who by luck called me back. He is an actor in London, he admitted that my voice sounded AI. I weirdly clearly have no accent then.😳

Its amazing. We are often referred to as plasy scousers. I love Merseyside all over.

I'm a fifer. I used to have a strong accent but damped it down when I went to uni (in Fife!) as no one knew what I was saying. I can ramp it up or down depending on who I talk to.

I am told I do by my DC, I have a West London accent, sounds a bit like Dido the singer. We are in the south east but I don't live there anymore and it's distinct from where we live.

Lancashire accent. I don't notice it much nowadays as I live in Yorkshire, having moved about a bit. The accent here isn't very different, but some people comment on my rhotic 'r' - 'floorrrr'. I spent years clipping my long vowels (maaaaayyyk into make) so that I could be understood. At 18 I was quite flummoxed by a southerner of a similar age holidaying in the north and telling me she hadn't realised people actually spoke like I did. She thought it was put on for Coronation Street.

No accent at all.

people are always shocked when I tell them that I grew up in Manchester.

I love different accents paticullary Welsh.

You do have an accent. As others have said, it is RP or RP-adjacent.

Am very Welsh-SW Wales nr Swansea. Very strong.

The Queen’s accent when she was younger was what is known as heightened RP - the accent Armstrong and Miller’s airmen sketch parodied. It evolved into a more modern form of RP in her later years.

The rhoticity of Northern Irish and Scottish accents may well sound “harsh” to your ear. Better that than the passive aggressive iron hand in the velvet glove of the long, open monophthongs of RP, IMHO.

I’ve lived all my life in the West Midlands and my accent isn’t very strong, it’s obviously West Mids but not broad.

We’ve recently moved to the East Midlands, around 20 minutes from Derby city centre, and sound nothing at all like the locals so now I most definitely don’t have a strong local accent to where I live, or even a mild one for that matter!

Yes for a while although started off beddington them roundshaw my accent wasn't as strong as others in New Addington but my mun didn't have any accent really

Im welsh and have a very strong north walian accent. I go most days without speaking english, and when I do its with a strong welsh accent.