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'd do ANYTHING to have a local accent. I've been bullied/spoken rudely to/abused my entire life due to the fact I don't. I don't know WHY I don't I just....don't. I've lived within 30 miles of the same place my entire life yet not a single week goes by where someone doesn't accuse me of being from a different country because I don't speak with the accent. For a while things were so bad and I was getting such a hard time I used to take my birth certificate and passport out with me to prove where I was born!

I even thought about going to some kind of local elecution lessons! I know that sounds mad but I get so fed up with it. Unfortunately nothing like that exists.

I'm Scottish and have moved to the North East of England. I do like the local accents round here (agree the Sunderland one is fab) but whenever we go home my poor DDs get lots of 'OMG, how English do they sound?' (in Scotland a Darlington accent sounds posh, it's the North Yorkshire influence).

It constantly amazes me how snobbish people are about e.g. soft 't' sounds. Especially since those kind of people inevitably can't pronounce their 'r's. Farmers do not rhyme with pyjamas people!!!!!

I am trying to work how farmers don't rhyme with pyjamas.

Farmers
Pyjamas

They rhyme

Sound pretty similar to me!

I pronounce my "rs".

Perhaps I say my "as" incorrectly

Were the Bananas in Pyjamas Farmers in their spare time? One to ponder.

Why can't you all live in lovely Sussex and then you've had no discernible accent at all, and speak like BBC Newsreaders. Like little ole moi. Huh? HUH?

My family relocated from Sussex to the northwest last year - youngest son no effects on speech, but ds1 has adopted a kind of half way Sussex/Manchester accent which I find grating - I have to bite my tongue to stop myself from telling him to speak properly - I have nothing at all against the local accent it's really quite nice, but his half/half just makes me cringe!

People who speak differently are thick? Checking the address bar - I must be either on mumsnet or the BNP site.

I like a West Country accent. People often think I am from the West Country but I come from NE Scotland. Weird. I think it's cos we are r-pronouncers.

YAM.

I always confuse Birmingham accents with London / cockney ones.

I don't know why, perhaps it's the nasal intonations or the fact that they always seem so LOUD.

The difference between Dudley and Wolverhampton is that Dudley is actually in the Black Country and Wolverhamoton just wants to be. HTH