To hate southerners accents?

[mrshess]

Alright i know i am a teeny bit but i cant bear the accent from down south.
I hate all that cockney geezer talk and yet they mock northern accents

I don't know, but I used to find northerners' accents a bit whiney and daft (sometimes. Eg, Derby, omg)

You might think i have nerve though, because I'm Irish.

I'm a Southerner and have no discernable accent. Bar RP, does that count? My parents would have disowned me otherwise.

oh yeah, brum accents. ok on big and small and that's it.

What's your accent op? We can't possibly comment until you open yourself up for criticism as well.

The Scouse accent is shit.

southern fairies

Oh do fark orf dear

I'm a southerner, we don't all speak cockney! I don't feel my accent is particularly offensive, perhaps just a bit boring!

"North" is a relative term: a lot of the places posted here as examples of north are southern to me; and my fairy Godmother from Elgin would consider the whole lot to be in the south.

Well, I'm northern, but I moved.

Your grass if fucking grey ...

.. Is ...

What is RP?

all souterhners sound the same

Birmingham is the midlands, so I think the midlands have the worst accents.

[gavel]

My Nan was always very scathing of the East End accent (what some people call Cockney - rarely heard these days)

She used to look down her nose at it from the comfort of the Old Kent Road

London (and the South) is full of loads of different accents

Bristolians don't

I'd rather talk in ma best mockney accent than like the tetley tea folk. innit.

Aint nuthin wrong with the sarrrrfff!

I went to uni in the Midlands and was surrounded by a range of accents. The only accents that I thought were odd were those who had a RP accent but came from an area that had a strong regional accent.

I am relieved I have southern accent it makes
me sound much more intelligent than I am[so have been told]whereas dp who is super intelligent comes from ooooop north so can be seen as at disadvantage FWIW I think Northern pronounciation is more accurate.Even after years of being together we still have much hilarity over each others accents and [eek]

Iv got a West Yorkshire - Wakefield/Castleford Accent. So abit like people from emmerdale!

Im very common. But i love my accent and im proud to be from Yorkshire!

Although would LOVE to be a scouser! for some reason!

I love the scouser accent mainly as I've only ever met friendly scousers (admittedly most of them builders and they're usually friendly anyway).

Yeah but innit?

I love the Brum accent but have to press mute when that awful Diana Vickers comes on. She was on Buzzcocks the other night and I'd have rather listened to nails scraping down a blackboard. Is she from your way?

Would someone please tell me what RP is?

I'm Scottish & have no idea of what you speak.

I don't see that there's anything to "hate" about an accent per se, it's just a reflection of where you're from - unless of course you mean when people put on a different accent, which really does bug me (MIL/Hyacinth Bucket take note please).

I have a bog standard home counties accent, fairly well-spoken to most people, I can see it would be viewed as pretty boring to many but I can't see you'd hate it.

My favourite though is a Brummie accent, I know, I know, but to me it has a lovely warmth to it.