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

Well my mum is from Manchester and she sounds like Dame Celia Johnson.

I have lived all over the shop and like all regional accents, stronger the better. I like it better when the accent goes against stereotype as well - I know several very beautiful, sophisticated, educated women from the North West with either scouse scally or Liam Gallagher accents.

I like it best when I am on the tube listening to what sounds like Jamaican Yardies and I turn around and it's the pupils from Highgate boys' school.

YABU

Yes, it was very funny when I heard a white Sheffield boy on the tram, on the phone to his friend, saying "Did ya watch da football innit man? Ohhh well safe innit wikkid man. Oo scored den? dat Jermain Dafoe? I is goin' up inna town laake." And so on.

custardo

Rather be a southern fairy than a northern monkey.

YABU

Personally I love British accents, so much better than the midwestern accents in the states. YIKES!!

YABU

What a strange think to hate lol I know some people may dislike others accents, but hate is quite strong, no?

To me (Devonian) southerners are from Cornwall.

And yes they sound like inbreds.

Even Londoners are nothern to me.

We don't all have the same accent down south you know - it's quite a big place!

But anyway, generally speaking you are wrong. There are a handful of horrid southern accents, whereas ALL northern accents except Geordie are rubbish. All of the north is rubbish. I've just come back from the most rubbish place in all of the rubbish north and it's rubbish.

I love all the accents in the UK - I think it's brilliant how everyone speaks differently.

What cracks me up is when Brits take the piss out of my kiwi accent!!! Apparently I speak differently!!! Which is a hoot cause in the UK (and especially in melting-pot like London) just about everyone speaks different to the person next to them.

Oh I love a Kiwi accent - I like the "fush and chups" and especially the use of "lollies" for sweets (or is it just chocolate, I'm never sure).

lollies are sweets (not chocolate)

It amazes me as I've been here 16 years & everyone comments on how strong my kiwi accent still is. Yet 3 years ago I met this old Liverpuddlian guy on a beach in NZ (he'd lived in NZ for years) and the first thing he asked me was what part of London was I from

I'm from Devon and whilst it is very mild, I am slightly embarassed by my westcountry twang, so I a bit hurt by your comments . Would my accent be acceptable? I lived in Manchester and I actually really like a mancunian accent so it is a shame you are not so accepting of your southern cousins. Though, some northern accents make my ears feel like they want to bleed - whereabouts are you from?

My DD has a problem with southern accents. Specifically, her own.

She's Lancashire born and bred. I am a lancashire/yorkshire hybrid but my parents made the terrible mistake of raising me in Essex. I aquired the local accent. Unfortunately, DD has picked up mine rather than local (or DHs who, from Gloucester, is to my ears accentless)

So poor DD was miffed at primary school to be accused of coming from London before she'd ever even been there, and now at secondary her new classmates think she sounds Aussie!

I was brought up in East London and still have a bit of a cockernee accent. DH is a Manc but you'd never know it, DD is a bit all over the place with her accent. She does ally herself to me when we talk of barths and grarss and carstles etc.
I love Vernon Kaye's accent, I think it's the same as Peter Kayes, possibly Bolton.
We are moving to Warrington next year, I will be very sad if DD picks up a scouse accent.

Southern accent as in...Essex, Hampshire, Devon, Cornwall?
Northern as in Manc, Scouse, Geordie, Yorks?

I was born in (West) London, moved to Hampshire, spent 4 years in Dorset, lived in Suffolk for 5 years, then 3 years on S Yorks/Notts border (where the accent is rotten - Y'orraaaat dook?).

IME, every region has an accent - all are different. I now live just 20 miles south of the place I've been living for the past 3 years and am amazed at the difference in the accents. Thank god - because if DD2 had started speaking with a Doncaster twang I would have had to enrol her in elocution classes.

Mick McCarthy has the best accent in the world. FACT.

I'm in London and here we mix with so many people from so many different cultures that we just don't feel the need to make sweeping derogatory remarks about how people speak

"And the southern girls, with the way they talk, they knock you out when you're down there." I'm with the Beach Boys.

JamieLeeCurtis - I'm loving your style and couldn't agree more with you.

I am a bit midlands toffee nosed they say.

Thanks Fran

"And the southern girls, with the way they talk, they knock you out when you're down there." I'm with the Beach Boys.

surely the BB meant Southern Belles not Essex girls or Mockney ladettes though

DD is going to be in Oliver (Youth Theatre). She has replaced her Northern accent with a Cockney one in order to prepare. Despite being quite fond of many Southern musicals, I am getting mildly irritated by all this musical style 'Awright Gaarvnar.'

YANBU. I can't bear some some Southern accents either. The accents on Eastenders are vile & Fearne Cotton's & Holly Willoughby's London accents are unpleasant. Some Southern accents are nice - like Devon but Essex ones make me cringe.