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

Are you like Rebecca Bof?

Because some people in Leeds/Manchester/Liverpool/Newcastle etc etc etc that are on MN do refer to the south as London. This thread proves that!

In fact i would love for the op to write down some places in the south without looking at a map! And they can't write London!

at MsSparkle.

Oh you are so right. There is no-one from the south of the UK that doesn't sound line an extra from Eastenders.

Gor blimey, love a duck. Doncha know. What.

God what a horrible thread! You're all as bad as the OP, "well I hate such and such accent, scousers sound whiney etc." How lovely .

Hahaha, funny thread, I love the variety of UK accents. DD is doing jolly phoncs and it took me ages to work out why "-or" was listed out as a separate word sound, 'cos where I'm from every possible variant of "-or" sounds like "-o-" plus "-r-", then I had my lightbulb moment, it's for those with southern accents!

My DH who speaks RP (I really should have realised the above sooner!), thought the reason my friend's DS was in speech therapy was because he'd inherited his father's speech impediment. His dad only has an Aberdonian accent !!!

As i live at the crack of England - the Humber. I class the south as anything sheffield to me! anything North i class as past Wetherby.

Where i am is in the middle and the south to me doesnt SCREAM Landan to me, its Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Torquay, Portsmouth, Southampton - i class Landan as its own place. Cos thats what it is isnt it?!

anything past sheffield - south for me that was meant to say

A London accent sounds like home to me. I feel happy when I hear it.

The Yorkshire accent makes my ears bleed. Each to their own, I suppose.

I am classy like Rebecca. But I don't nod as much.

Can I just say that I think you're all AMAZING though?

North/south Pah!

Try coming from the East, when people north or south think you are Australian FFS.

I think it often depends who is speaking. A Bradford accent when used by Kimberley Walsh makes me go weak at the knees. All rough and ready and Northern laaaake, and ready for a snog be'ind t'bins at closing taaame in return for some chips. It's the same effect as I have heard women describe when hearing Sean Bean.

I have a girlfriend who moved to the states from just outside the Brum area and she said if I end up talking like that she'll disown me. She says (and I quote), "The Brummy accent is an abomination to the English language".

I have a non accent, but live in Bristol. Us posh southerners don't 'do' accents. The South has a plethora of accents, all representing the sort of people. West country is relaxed and friendly, for example.

There are accents that I can't bear, many make me think the people sound a bit thick, but I'm stupid enough to offend the MNers with my list!!!

I'm not sure I've ever heard a 'sophisticated' northern accent though.

YABU
Coming from the south, I think thatsome people with northern accents sound a bit, well, thick.
Which is hard, as I live in the north. But, people do think I am posh, because of the way I speak (I'm not).
But when I go back home, I think people with southern accents sound a bit thick too. I am stuck in accent limbo-land.

All those mocking the Brum accent, I think you actually mean the Black Country accent. Which I love far more then any version of Estuary English.

UnquietDad
thats like my accent but more Wakefield.

Birmingham is WEST Midlands, though, not Midlands. I?m in the East Midlands and we sound nowt like the Brums! Our accent is horrible!

Having lived in Yorkshire for fifteen years and hating the accent initially, I have now decided it can sound very sexy when the right person is speaking.

It's not really fair to say northern accents can sound any more "thick" than, say, some of those from north Kent and the London suburbs. An "oo-ar drinkin' zoyder on moy combine 'arvester" West Country (and also Norfolk/Suffolk) accent can sound a bit "dim" if you want to read it that way.

Accents are odd. I suppose I'd say I speak "RP" because I don't have the local accent which is a cross between chavvy and cockney (the medway towns accent which has spread to mid-kent although largely "calls" dependant)

I knew a woman who had moved here from Shropshire and when she first arrived her accent was quite noticeable. It didn't seem to change all that much to us, but after a while she'd remark that she'd been talking to her mum on the phone who remarked that she now had a Kent accent.

My sister has lived in Cornwall for the last few years and every now and then she gets a cornish burr alongside her RP. It's quite amusing to hear her talking actually, because the two really don't match that well!

Also, my nan is Welsh but moved here when she was a child. On starting school the teacher told her that her that the first thing they would have to do was get rid of her regional accent! You would never know that she's from Wales, though her brother has kept his Welsh lilt despite having lived in kent for longer than her.

I think one of the troubles with thr North/South divide is that the Home Counties have a rather high proportion of snobs people who regerd "Northeners" as uncouth and resentment has built up. There are still a lot of class issues in this country, though accents seem a strange battleground to play it out on to me!

Bleh. "calls" should read "class".

Typing with sleeping DD on my arm is hard.

Hoping that someone has pointed out that not all southerners are cockneys...

You are only cockney if you live within earshot of the Bow Bells. there are however many, many Mockneys. I used to work with a guy that used to drop in the odd bit of rhyming slang, I would always say, Oh, can you actually hear the Bow Bells in Luton then?

There are some foul southern accents, just as there are some less attractive northern accents.

Lazy speaking, poor grammar and diction are what is ugly about any accent, not it's geographical origin.

Well people tell me I don't have an accent.

I'm from outside of Portsmouth and would probably say I'm RP. There are people who use the 'innit', dun't it' etc, but I would expect not all Northerners 'go downt pub'. Because accents vary town to city, city to county, north to South.

OP if this is all you have to worry about in your life - your a lucky person.