Has anyone ever gotten where your accent is from wrong?

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Been told I am from Birmingham , really from Coventry

I’m Canadian but a lot of people think my accent is Irish, even people from Ireland

Coventry and Birmingham are completely different accents. There are a lot of Brummies in Cov though. (Got relatives there)

I used to be able to hear the difference between Nottingham and Leicester accents which are quite similar. Mansfield/Sutton way is different again. (Broader)That Ashfield MP (Lee Anderson ?) sounds like my Aunt's and Uncles. Very nostalgic to hear the accent, if not the content.

I code switch a lot so don't know what accent I have anymore.

Oops seemed to have quoted a random post. Sorry.

Black eyed Susan ..You're forgiven🤣🤣

On the Costa Brava on holiday, we went for a ride on the road train. The train stopped for a 15 minute break before turning round and going back, at which point an elderly couple got on - they were speaking French and, to my very unpractised ear, they were wondering why the train wasn't moving. So I told them, in my schoolgirl French, that we had to wait for 15 minutes while the driver had a rest. Then we had a brief conversation, in the course of which I found out that they were from Brittany, and they asked me if I was from Paris!!!! At that time I hadn't spoken French for about 45 years and I really don't think my accent was ever THAT good.

I have a broad Lancashire accent, frequently get mistaken for Yorkshire. It's like the War of the Roses all over again

I’m terrible at placing accents! I thought a school mum was Canadian but she’s Scottish!

Coventry is practically Birmingham! Midlands accents tend to sound the same if you’re not from there.

I have an Aberdeen accent which is maybe not as familiar to people as southern Scottish.

I've been asked if I'm from Yorkshire or Irish. I've even overhead people speculating - just ask me!!

I’ve got a London accent and sometimes in the north of England people think I’m Australian. I also get asked if I’m from Essex.

Nope. People usually guess correctly that I'm a Manc. 😁

When speaking French (in the Caribbean)I’ve been asked if I’m Canadian.

I’m from Lancashire (and will happily speak French with a broad Lancashire accent to prove it).

Nobody has ever guessed where I'm from, but people have been surprised because they expect me to sound posh and I don't!

Born in Scotland, grew up in the South West of England and was accused on Qatar Airlines flight, in business class, for not having an accent, by a flight attendant from Liverpool. Silly bitch.

Australian (I'm Irish)

I'm from central Scotland, and have a fairly neutral, flat, Scottish accent. When I lived in Australia, I got Irish ALL the time.
I'm also fluent in French, and apparently I sound French Canadian, rather than actual French, according to folks, when I'm in France.

If you're from Newfoundland, your accent will have a lot of SE Ireland to it (Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny, Carlow).

Very often people guess it to be Northern Irish when it’s a Glaswegian accent but there’s a strong similarity so I get it.

Also had American and even carribbean a couple of times lol

occasionally been mistaken for Jordie and Scouse

I’m Canadian and I’ve been asked if I’m Irish!

Accents are definitely a thing in the US.

Gotten is also used in Scotland, or at least in Glasgow it is. I had no idea it was considered an American thing until Mumsnet.

Stevenage is weirdly specific.

My accent is pure Home Counties (unless I have occasion to mention Glasgow, which I say with a short, northern a). It's been mistaken for various things, but most commonly West Country (in the UK) or Dutch (by non-English speakers). Multiple people have also assumed I'm Irish, but based only on appearance not voice.

😆 I'm not sure whether you should be flattered by that or not, considering what most of France thinks of Paris.

More than one person has asked if I'm from Devon. I am not. I am from Dorset, and it turns out I feel quite strongly about it, because it is not Devon.

I have, on occasions thought someone was American when they were Irish, (when they first spoke) until they start speaking more. And vice versa, I thought someone was Irish when they were American... for a minute or so...

It's not just Americans who say 'gotten.' 🙄

Bet you think 'mom' is an Americanism too! (It's not, many people in the West Midlands say mom!)