to hate beyond shelves my local accent?

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I had the pleasure of sitting behind 2 locallers at TheJoyThatIsSwimmingLessons today.

I normally let the yamyam flow over me, but oh my very shirt fuse today just could not stand it.

It took about 76megapixels of resolution not to stand up and shout "Use proper words you massacrists".

Does your local accent drive you full of angst?

AIBU to dislike it so terribly much?

I will one day get beaten up I have this affliction that causes me to mimic an accent.....i cant help it im not even v good at it .

My dp is from just outside Dudley and has a black country accent.

It's fucking sexy.

I love all accents.

There are none that I dislike.

I like accents though.

I always feel a bit flat and boring with my London flat drone. No lilts, etc. Accents are fab

(as CTR can testify as we had an actual RL conversation last week....)

I spend time trying to learn them.

I'd never even heard a Brummie accent until I was 18. It got slated all the time I was growing up. It wasn't 'till I'd left B'ham myself and was back for a visit, sat on a bus going int town that I heard it for the first time. I had to go away (and be amongst a load of southerners who like me to talk Brummie to them} to hear it. Many years on I can't talk Brummie much at all now. .

No, no, no! I've lived in the midlands since i was 6 and still hate both Brummie and Black country accents.

I went out with a lad from Tipton once and think i got bored when i could finally understand him. It took 10 months.

I only sound like a brummie when i'm drunk apparrantly :o

I love all regional accents.... apart from that newish London one that kids speak; a sort of amalgam of Jamaican, London and Pakistani - 'know wa' a mean innit'

YABU - I like shelves.

Grotty accents, of whatever variety can be like fingernails down a blackboard though!

We lived in Italy for a while and then moved near Crewe/Stoke.

When ds who was 3 at the time, said 'buke' for book and 'luke' for look and 'cuke' for cook, I knew we would not last long there and we moved south and now they say 'barth' for bath and 'grarss' for grass and we do not mind at all!

I am from Lancashire so not an accent snob but the Stokey accent kills me!

I like the London accent. However I hate the faux asian/Jamaican/Bradfordian Or whatever the fuck it is) melange than the local yoof seem to use to communicate. It makes them sound a bit slow to my ears and it's not a "real" accent. It's something put on because they think it makes them sound cool. It doesn't.

Old, grumpy and proud

Snap Belle I hadn't seen your post when I wrote mine!

I love a bit of yam yam. And Glaswegian.

I'm from Bristol.... Snm, my accent is disgusting although mine isn't 'proper like'

Oh, one of the things I really miss about my home town is the accent. Yorkshire accents and dialect are so lovely - the dry wit, the rich local vocab. I now live in the South East where there's nothing particularly noticeable. Most people speak modern RP or Estuary - extremely boring.

Seem to recall that Yorkshire accents keep coming top in any list of 'accents people trust' which is why when call centres were first introduced loads of them started Up North (before companies decided it was cheaper to exploit a load of people in India).

edam I think that might be 'accents that people trust when it comes to money matters'. The same with the Scottish accent. I wonder what accents are least trustworthy?

I think Bakelite and eurochick hate the same accent I mean as well, ...

It's horrible, but especially so when spoken by middle class kids who sound impeccable in the presence of mum and dad.

The Jamaican 'patois' that the kids around me put on.

"Yah bro - when we go baack to da Vinnie maaaaan"

This kid is third generation British and his grandparents came from St Vincents in the 1950's.

My grandmother was Welsh and my other grandmother was Irish and my Dad was Scottish.

Now that is a challenge!

"Well I was out gathering slate when a huge haggis bit me on the bum and Jesus Christ on a bicycle I was RED with shame because the priest saw me beating the bastard off with a leek"

Mine is proper bristle like idn't it.

Da Vinnie, maaaaan!?

ROFL

Agree with skirt YABU

I like accents and live in the Black Country and work in Birmingham and Stoke. Some of my friends have strong accents but are intelligent, kind and I am lucky to know them.

mumblechum1 and Mathewbellamyismyman - this isn't 'what group of people do you dislike based on where they are from?'

I love my local accent, it's very specific, we have a southern lady at the stables where I keep my horse, I was chatting to the vet about a leg injury last week and she asked me afterwards what the bloody hell we were talking about. I had to translate "nowt nor summat" into proper terms and the best I could do was "don't worry his leg won't fall off"
It can speak English and I do in most situations, but when I'm with friends or people with a broad accent, I talk broad Yorkshire, it's like taking off my heels and putting my slippers on. I don't care what others listening may think, they probably wouldn't understand a word of it anyway.

me and husband sound quite rough at times (to soft southern ears) but our children sound like posh toffs (to our rough ears anyway) - have to watch out when i take them back home to visit as they stand out a mile.

begonya, I slip into pretty broad Ampshurr when drunk angry - I'm pretty sure that sounds rough! It certainly took DP by surprise the first time it happened to his normally well-spoken Missis

I like all accents, but not poor spoken grammar, 'would of' etc.