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?

lost count of the times I've had to resort to a very posh queeny accent on the phone just to be understood. It's becoming a bad habit now and it embarrasses the hell out of the kids when i start doing it out and about.

I used to work in Debenhams there bupcakes! Used to love the girls there and probably adopted the accent as we went out a lot in my yout.
My mother used to work there for a while and we found that she started using the word 'like' after every sentence and had to tell her to stop as it was driving us mad!
When I first moved over to this area people thought there was something wrong with me because I couldn't reply immediately to people as I was computing what they meant.
Mind you I am very deaf in one ear so it doesn't help much.
My accent is probably more W'ton as from Bobbington.

camerondiazepam (luv that name) glad its not just me .....

begonyabampotI have a telephone voice too lol ds1 says one minute im yellin' like im in the rovers return the next minute the phone rings and im all newsreadish ....

My grandparents were from Sheffield. They are both gone now but I still find an elderly person speaking in a Yorkshire accent very soothing. Grandad had a budgie and taught it to speak. It spoke in his voice. It sounded really funny to hear a little blue bird talking in a deep voice with a Yorkshire accent.

We moved from Kent to Bath. For the first few weeks at work the accent really grated on me. When we went "home" for a visit the local accent then had the same effect.

My 4 yo has just started school in Bristol. I suppose it is inevitable she will pick up the accent?

When I first met the PILs they used to tease me a bit for pronouncing the 'g' on the end of words like 'ring' or 'sing'. Us Yorkshire folk pronounce the letter, soft Southerners do not.

Actually FIL had a really gorgeous Swansea accent - very much like Richard Burton. I practically swooned over it. Such a shame dh didn't inherit it!

I get irritated when people are obviously putting an accent on that is not their own. When the result sounds really false IYSWIM.

Okay I have skim read the thread, has someone explained the phrase hate beyond shelves I thought it was some kind of auto-correct thing?

I was buying some make-up at the Estee Lauder department in Boots at Merry Hell last month. "Yum not frum rowund ere am ya bab?" said the woman. I'm from six miles up the road, if that's what you mean?

Cor yow understand em me babby?

I can understand um now cor oy?

Now that I have to work with them. You know they say the best way to learn a foreign language is to just get chucked into a work situation with the foreigners? Well, it's true.

Ah, just reminded me of when my friends took me to Bingo (Brierley Hill) with them for a laugh (at my expense I think) I couldn't understand why people kept putting their hand up and saying "E R". Mates rolled around laughing at me (they were saying "here you are or something")

"E R"

I HATE Ee-yar! UGGGGGGH fucking knuckledragging Black Countray yokels, it's "here you are".

lol

when I moved to the west country i got the piss taken (gently of course) out of my scottish accent (understand it sounds a bit rough and ready to some), oh how they thought it was amusing, coming from those who sounded like they should have been driving a tractor and shouting 'gert orf moi laaaand' made me understandably a bit ! Also, if one more person asks me to say, 'there's been a murrrrderrrrr' so they can all guffaw in a west country kind of way - there will be one!

My DH is forever correcting my yam yam accent. I lost it almost completely when I met him as was working in a different area. Then got a new job in wolvo and it came back within seconds! He is now trying to ensure that DD and DS don't develop my affliction ( as he calls it)

I used to loathe my accent but now I love it! Although I do agree about not understanding the spoken word in Merry Hell

Ah, cj that is a shame , must stop nagging DH about saying 'tuffbrush'.
Hee hee, Merry Hill - love it, they all get freaked out by the fact they can't squeeze another syllable into the words 'Greggs' and 'Asda'! . They can into 'Boowuts and Powundland'

any accent is ok as long as it isnt scottish or whiny scouse :)

I hate my accent because I cannot make myself understood no matter how hard I try :(. I even do my best to moderate my accent to be understood but to no avail. I understand most other people, bar the odd blip.

I am brought up and still live in West Yorkshire. I agree that there is no excuse for poor grammar, but I do like my accent and am not ashamed of it. Can't stand southerners though that think their way to pronounce a word is correct, and everyone else is just mis-pronouncing words. Surely there is no right and wrong?? My friend even tells me I am pronouncing local place names wrong- since when was saying every letter in the word clearly the correct way? Many place names, north and south have peculiar pronunciations which are familiar to locals but not to visitors.

I love local accents :) They're full of character and interest. Some I dislike the sound of, some I like, but even the ones I don't like I wouldn't want to lose. It would be boring if we were all the same.

My accent is dull Surrey. Dh has a very well educated Scottish accent. Accents are fab but bad grammar isn't. He's a lawyer, well-educated, well-spoken, knows his Latin etc but he still gets snobby comments from people saying stuff like, 'I didn't understand a word of that' whilst snurking. He's not a sensitive soul but that drives him potty.

We used to live in Cheshire and I was amazed and how the accents changed even within Greater Manchester. The Manchester accent was very clearly different to the Bolton accent even to me despite Bolton only being about 6miles out of town! And where we lived, in Cheshire, most people spoke like me with a home counties accent as if it had been lifted up from it's natural place between Berkshire and Surrey and plonked down just south of Manchester!

My Manc born children are gradually picking up an East Yorks accent. I think it's probably preferable to the very manc accent DS1 was picking up at playgroup before we moved...

DP lived in N. Ireland until he was 8 and then moved over here. He has an accent local to where we live (albeit he speaks very very fast (and mumbles :o)) unless he's speaking to his family or bizarrely the dogs!
I used to hate the N Ireland accent but like it now. I'd still kick him out of bed in favour of a guy with a Russian accent though!

In hindsight, I may have used too many !

Sorry