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

RP is received pronounciation - the type what the Queen speaks, innit.

Received Pronounciation is in Wikipedia.

I like this quote, which sums it up [fbear]

It is the business of educated people to speak so that no-one may be able to tell in what county their childhood was passed.
A. Burrell, Recitation. A Handbook for Teachers in Public Elementary School, 1891.

YANBU. They can't expect to mock northern accents and yet have everyone like their own.

Thank you pawsnclaws & MollieO. I've never heard of received pronunciation before, obviously it's not used in Scotland.

The Queen isn't RP.

Of course everyone in the south has a cockney geezer accent

I love all accents. Love the variety. I sometimes struggle to understand some Scottish accents, but I love welsh accents.

So yabu, but you already know that don't you!

OP - you mean you don't like the Queen's English.

Does it really matter. People from around the UK speak the same language in a slightly different manner. How they speak has no bearing on their intellectual ability.

I am from the south and one can detect the slightest of accent changes from down here, i live in Berkshire but am from Kent and can tell if someone is not from Berkshire, even if they're just from slightly afar from Bk.

I love accents, and work with many people with different accents, variety is the spice of life, is it not?

I'm Scottish, living in London and I LOVE the way that workies down here talk like Grant Mitchell/Del Boy.

Also very into the rude boi dizzee rascal type of accent. And the random spattering of every conversation with 'innit'.

I love all accents though... especially my own :)

The Brummie accent is the worst in the world - let alone the UK.

OTTMummA... a Canadian girl in Glasgow once commented to me that the strangest thing about the UK was the way that everyone has different accents. It's so true! If I hear a Scottish speaker I can make a good guess at where they're from/their class background (upper/lower middle class are very different)/education etc. I think it's amazing!

Not so hot on English accents but I am getting better

Im from manchester but dont have the oasis accent more the mark owen type of accent

So you don't hate southerners accents then? Just cockney?

Yabu and very ignorant. Seems some people only think the South means London! Stupid people.

That's soooo rude OP!!!

YABU I find all this North-South needle ridiculous, we're all english after all

I love Mark Owen's accent mrshess.

No we're not, kikoloine.

I am pue Pony Club. I appreciate it must be very annoying. On the plus side, cold callers often offer me jobs (well,twice) for my telephone voice. I am thinking of starting Home Counties Chat - porn lines for the posh boys.

That would be pure Pony Club. Lucky I will be chatting and not typing.

There is no such thing as "a Southern Accent".

"There is no such thing as "a Southern Accent"."

Why are there people up North who think South means London?

BUY A MAP PEOPLE!

I've got a Scouse accent. A posh one, mind. If there is such a thing.

I never say KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKHHHHH anyway.

At least they name a city, not like those who refer to "The North" as if it's all the same.

"Why are there people up North who think South means London?"