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

Personally though, I love it when I hear a man sound very very common, but also very very clever. That is SEXY.

I don't assume that well-spoken equals clever, but it does often equal well-educated. Which is not the same thing, but does a good impression of being the same thing.

Come on then. Explain this. I am a posh Geordie, Do I exist?

Posh as in speaks with RP, or posh as in speaks Geordie in a refined way?

It's a tricky one, because everyone is so in love with the Georgie accent that we don't hear 'common' we just hear lovely sing-song 'I grow leeks and go out in January with no coat.'

Ha ha, refined Geordie accent!!

Actually I'm stuggling to think how that might sound.

How posh countess? If you say oxters, tret or clarty then you are not that posh

That's a very intersting point - I know how a posh Londoner or Essxe person or Yorkshite person sounds. But not a posh Geordie!

at self and 'yorkshite'!!!

I am a brummy so get used to having our accent slated but when I say I am not keen on the cockney accent I am slated. Hence, no Eastenders for me! Give me a bit of coro or Emmerdale any day of the week.

I quite like a Brummy accent - very friendly and warm.

I don't say clarty but a (not "I") do say aye :)

posh geordie and posh liverpuddlian - oxymoron

My DS has developed a real dislike of the Scouse accent after X Factor and Rebecca's family so I keep putting it on for him now. Oh how I am glad that I am sufficiently old enough to embarass my child. The thing is growing up I always fell for the charm of the scouse and Irish accents. I still swoon when somebody rings me from Belfast. My Grandmother was from there and I find it really soothing.

Custy I've been called worse

I too have an enormous dislike of the Scouse accent but I think Rebecca has been Liverpool's saving grace; so beautiful and humble and dignified and elegant. I'm prepared to accept that it can sometimes sound nice in the right hands.

@ OP...'up t'ut road and round t'ut corner'...

Get a life!

Just what the heck did those Northerners do/say to you at the weekend?

Shoud say Fellatio at the end of my last post.

Yabu. I am southish. I absolutely love the Newcastle accent, but I wouldn't emulate it because I would sound like a dick.

I don't think people can change their accents much.

I'm welsh (from Barry island) but live in Newcastle. Sorta welsh sing-songy with haway pet in the end! Xx

It's up there, further up the thread joni.

at 16.36 I think. What annoyed me is that accept me as a gin and tonic drinking posh southerner, but they have very rigid expectations of their own 'type' and they are not to step outside their pre-ordained place in life.

There's a saying for that Fellatio. Peas above sticks. It means getting above yourself
I'm glad I had the sense as a kid never to listen to that crap.

It really upset me TBH. The family have ostracised this girl for daring to climb outside her box.