Has anyone ever gotten where your accent is from wrong?

[PunnyBeaker]

Been told I am from Birmingham , really from Coventry

I’m from North London but was working in a pub in Stockport.

Apparently I’m Australian “same as that other girl”

(the other girl worked in a different pub. She was actually a friend and she was from Norfolk).

Most people struggle to place my accent because I sound like I could come from anywhere north of Watford. I grew up in Derbyshire, with a proper ‘ay up mi duck’ accent. I never consciously changed it, it just naturally softened over time when I went away to university & started mixing with middle class people for the first time in my life. It moderated further due to working in a professional environment.

Now, when I go back to my home town, the locals think I sound ‘posh’. Objectively, I don’t because I have kept my northern vowels (the A in bath is the same as in cat), but southerners can tell I’m from ‘up north’. They just can’t place where.

Scouse often asked if I'm from Newcastle

Americans or other overseas countries? I can't imagine how anyone from the UK can mistake a Liverpool for Newcastle accent!

No!! Keep trying!

When I lived in Leeds for a few years I was regularly called a Cockney Sparrow and asked about London life- I come from Bedfordshire. Funnily enough, when I have visited London and looking around the markets, I’ve been referred to as a “posh girl”
because of my accent. So not sure how I can sound cockney and posh at the same time but there you go.

Jumping in here. Redcar?

My husband is broad Yorkshire, but he's been mistaken, several times, for being Scottish!

I’m from Liverpool and I spent a while in Australia in my early 20s and I was surprised at the amount of Aussies who thought I was Irish, but I’ll never forget one woman who insisted that I was Scottish!

More recently I was queuing to board a flight into Gatwick when another passenger asked me if I was from Sheffield, I said no, she then asked me was I from somewhere in the midlands again I said no, she then asked me where I was from so I replied Liverpool, as she looked at me in disbelief, tbh I thought she was taking the piss somehow as the bloke she was with was wearing a LFC football shirt - he looked like he wanted the ground to swallow him up.

They'd be a bloody good guess to know where I'm from. My accent changes from generic northern to generic southern depending on who I'm talking to.

Ding ding ding! You’re in the right area, and that is Teesside.

We get a bit upset at being identified as Geordies, Mackemd or Sand-dancers!

I watch a couple of YouTubers; I was convinced one was from Gateshead until he mentioned that he's from Yorkshire! 🤷‍♀️

Similar here I’m originally from Mansfield but live in Bath and am always asked if I’m Mancunian - and no I don’t sound like Angela Rayner

I can't differentiate between most of the west midlands accents either - other than black country which is really strong.

Mine's a hotch potch: few people ever get it right.

i have a broad Gloucestershire accent but when in America I get mistaken for South African accent!

Some Nova Scotian accents are a bit Scottish-sounding (and Newfie accents are basically heavy south western Irish accents).

So not a totally ridiculous guess!

Lol!!

I was going by Maid Of Steel as in Steel town.

Australian, South African, Canadian, Scottish (I'm from Northern Ireland ...albeit my accent is malleable and all over the place)
On the flip side, I wad impressed by the chap in the petrol station in Belfast who asked me "Tyrone or Derry?" when he'd only overheard me say "diesel on number 2 please"

Nobody ever gets mine right, I always say "orf" which causes much hilarity.

Sigh. Gotten is not just American. We use it in NI. Officially, not just colloquially. In fact it’s used all over Ireland.

Anyway, back to the subject. Like a couple of pp’s, my NI accent has been mistaken for Scottish a few times. Usually by English people.

I’ve had people guess I’m from Bristol. I’m actually from Shrewsbury and have a broad local accent that I make sure not to lose. Like pps, I hate to hear the older local accents dying out.

I have a middle class, Home Counties accent. I’ve lived in either end of the same county for years and spent my twenties between Hampshire and Hertfordshire.

no one has ever asked or commented on my accent. Apart from to take the piss about how posh I sound when I swear. I have never considered before that I am just not place able in this way.

All the time, apparently sound like I’m from London but I’m from Yorkshire

I have an East Coast American accent. People have asked if I’m German or Canadian mostly. I’m actually English born and have lived here for all but 17 years of my life (I’m 64), but 11 of that was formative years in the US.