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?

some l;ocal accents I like, some I detest BUT what I detest "more than shelves" is missing t's......whatever the accent. IT BUGS ME!! I sit opposite someone at work who has never said the t sound!!

I hate the teenage accent

I have lived in West Mids all my life but when I go to Chavdom shopping centre I really have problems understanding what shops assistants are saying to me!
Yesterday man delivering my shopping called me 'cock' twice.
I love regional accents, they remind me that tradition is still alive. Only thing I don't like it the "that will learn ya" and "can you borrow me sum?" mis-use of language.

I still amuses me when men call my DP or DF 'duck'

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I've worked in schools in South Birmingham, Worcester and North Worcestershire. Although all the schools are within half an hour of each other, all three accents are completely different. I'm currently in a "tow-an" sort of accent school, but no "yam"s. I still struggle to understand what the children are saying sometimes.

We recently moved to Warrington. I was waiting behind two young people at the bank a couple of weeks ago. They were chatting to each other and I thought they were from foreign parts. They were locals.
The accent that I hate beyond shelves is Scouse. I honeslty can't understand it. All the scousers/Liverpuddlians I've met spoke so quickly I didn't have a chance.
I find myself like the character in little britain with the Asian woman 'say again' 'say again' 'sorry'.

I shouldn't say hate, I should say can't for the life of me understand beyond shelves.

YABU

As are all those who judge people by their accents.

The UK is unique in the sheer number of varying accents. Going from the village I was born to the town two miles down the road you have different accents. It's fabulous and shoul dbe celebrated.

I also find that people who deliberately lose their accents often have quite serious issues. You should never be ashamed of where you come from.

Here's the bad news...everyone has a 'regional accent'. The supposedly 'neutral' middle class southern English accent most people who whinge about regional accents have is a) itself a regional, class-specific accent b) sounds quite odd to me and to every other Irishperson I know (Americans think its pretty funny too). When I moved to the south-east first I couldn't figure out why everyone spoke so incredibly slowly and inserted imaginary Ws in words like "car" that clearly have no flipping W. I've learnt to live with it now, but give me Geordie Manc or Scouse any day . At least they have a bit of character.

I absolutely love accents.

I have never lived anywhere other than the UK, so it could be the same in every other country, but I love the way that accents vary in such small geographical areas.

Gloucester has a completely different accent from Cheltenham (only 10 miles) away, however they both are very west country. 10 miles up the road from Cheltenham people sound brummy. Bristol is only 35 miles down the road and again the accent is completely different.

Manchester is only 30 odd miles from Liverpool and how different they sound.

My favourite accents are Bristol, glaswegian, strong welsh and weherevr in the east midlands that they all call you 'duck'.

I don't much like Bolton accent (mind you that could be because I can't stand Vernon Kay and Peter Kay). And I really like scouse when all drawly and deep like Ringo Starr, but not when all high pitched and 'eerrmmm' like Colleen Rooney.

Oh, and northern irish accent I love deeply.

"I have lived in West Mids all my life but when I go to Chavdom shopping centre I really have problems understanding what shops assistants are saying to me!"

Oh please. Which shopping centre is it? I bet it's the Mander Centre in Wolvertrampton

Did anyone see the Come Dine With Me from about two weeks ago, that was in Wolverhampton? Three of them were proper yam-yams, one was an Italian, one was a yam-yam but she was ashamed of Wolverhampton so she tried to affect a Liz Hurley accent, but every now and then she dropped in a "yow" or "cor". Made me laugh!

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Haha I live in east yorkshire now but originally from lancashire so I am constantly saying "What does that mean???"

My neighbours all think I talk posh. I'm common as muck where I come from haha Xx

I love yamyam accent as well. I remember asking in all innocence my XP (who was talking about Fred being a Yammy) 'what is a yammy?'. I thought it meant a type of gangster, like a yardie

Bristol accent is great, I used to work in Bristol and loved listening to people talking about 'going up the asdals (asda)'

bupcakes, it is Merry Hell. I can understand them really well in W'ton but a few miles down the road in Dudley I cannot understand them unless they speak slowly and shout (in a kind of Englishman abroad type of way).
Come dine with me was really good, I don't try to loose my accent but I do try to use non-regional dialect as I travel around in my work and people take the piss relentlessly .
I defy anyone to understand what anyone is saying in Asda Merry Hill. They may as well be speaking Flemish to me.

The accent is very broad where I come (north Devon), especially when you listen to old people, it is sometimes so strong I don't understand it, despite being Devon born 'n' bred

I always get called 'maid' when I am in Devon, it's lovely.

Is Wolverhampton accent different from Dudley then? I would have thought they sounded the same.

I've moved away from my home town , which I think had a nice accent, to a new area which has an awful accent. I hate that my DD will grow up with it. At the moment they just have bland accent like DH and I but I know as soon as they get older and go to school they will have an awful accent and I hate it.

"I'm from the south-west but i didn't feel conscious of my accent until some London lads started calling me 'the Caramel Bunny'..."

That just really made me laugh .

My DP's best friend as a teen was a black kid who lived all his life in Gloucester, so had a strong west country accent. When DP moved to Harlesden when in his late teens his mate went to visit him in London tahn. When DP's met was introduced to all his London mates, some of the Harlesden too cool for school and 'street' black lads pissed themselves at a black kid who had an accent like Worzel Gummidge.

Yes getorf, very different. The Birmingham accent is also very different but can understand that one too, (it sounds like they are singing to you).

Oooh I work at Merry Hell. I bet I have served you and you couldn't understand the barrage of ay, yow, cor, gooin, and one syllable into two syllable words.

Actually (am a yam yam) I do have a Wolvo accent but can say my words properly. DS can home from school the other day and said "can we go swimmin' tomorrah?"

Flipped. My. Lid.

Nickschick I also end up imitating not only people's accents but any regional linguistic quirks and phrases. Pretty sure I constantly sound like I'm taking the piss, and it gets worse the more conscious I am of it. Gonna get meself a slap before too long...

could be worse - my local accent is bad enough, but the local accent where I live has me pulling out my teeth at its shocking hideousness.
at least my local accent is decipherable.

Liek today, when a lady was here, asking for the classic "the tiger oo come to tea"

they have no past tense here !

English is my second language and I really like our local accent of 'Middle Class South East' - To me it sounds really sweet, especially women - I listen to people them talk on the bus and think it sounds really soothing.

I also like Welsh and Devon/Cornwall.

I have no idea what accent I have. Generic Southern with a hint of foreign maybe?