To be ashamed of my brummie accent?

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I hate it. It makes me sound like a droning thicko and I'm not !

Well, not a thicko. I'm definitely a droner.

My DH is from Bedfordshire and now lives in the Black Country with me. He has picked up the BC accent and I can't understand him.

It's even worse when his mom and dad Skype him, they look to me for a translation and I'm pissing myself laughing because I don't understand what they are saying either - his DM is a cockney and his DH has a thick Bedfordshire accent

Another Brummie here too. Don't be ashamed.
I tend to accidently adopt other peoples' accents if I spend a lot of time with them which is quite weird.
I now live abroad and my accent seems to be getting stronger, especially if I lose my temper .
DS hasn't really had any other contact with english other than me talking to him and watching Postman Pat but has a slight brummie twang :)

Sorry that was such an unhelpful post.

Maybe don't greet people with "Yow arrright am ya?". They won't guess where you're from

Yow'm a roight snob!

I'm a very clever Brummies with a Masters Degree

Nothing wrong with my Brunmie brain, me bab! As has already been said, it's what you say, rather than how you say it.

I'll also add that I'm actually quite chuffed by the amount of people on here who say they like/love the Brummie accent.

God bless you all!

• Type-o in my last post: not 'clever Brummies' but 'Brummie' maybe the predictive text on my iPhone is thicker than the Brum stereotype??

YANBU, its a vile accent. And you probably are thick but because you are surrounded by other thick people, you havent noticed.
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Think back a few years, geordie accents where synonymous with being thick and drunk, welsh accents were all about being thick and shagging sheep. Now, all the link people on TV seem to be either Geordies or Welsh and people talk about the accents like they do about Irish accents. It'll be the Brummie's turn soon, I am sure :)

I'm not thick, really - the type-o's on my last two posts don't do me any justice at all ...

Yeah alright....if you say so... :o

YABU

An accent does not define who you are. It merely defines where you were raised.

I love the Brummie accent actually.

No accent is better than any other. They're all just different.

I like it. Probably because I've not yet met a nasty Brummie. You must be Brummie and proud.

I used to speak "posh" and actively cultivated a brummie accent when as school to sound cool

My dm is still horrified as I can't seem to lose it

I love a Brummie accent. Having lived in Brum for fifteen years and known lots of cool, clever Brummies, it doesn't have negative associations for me. There are thick droney versions of most accents because there are thick droney people in every part of the country!

Yanbu

I feel your self hatred OP. I live in an artsy ffartsy area of Birmingham, and i have been ridiculed because of my accent.
It's very W.C, very brummie, but, d,ya know what? It's ok.
I think normal people don't judge on accent, but rather on the content of the speakers conversation.

An artsy ffartsy area of Birmingham? Moseley?

I'm swapping ashamed for slightly embarrassed. Esp when phoning call centres.

"Can you repeat that please?"

I love brummie accents. Its happy sounding.

Ooh tell me tell me!
I live in a part of south brum which has a few posh sorts.

Probably Aston, Saltley, Nechells, Sparkhill, A Cock is Green

Artsy fartsy = Moseley or Harborne surely?
Oh, Edgbaston at a push?

I was going to say Edgbaston!

OP, you should try living in Brum with a totally different regional accent! I am a veteran of 'smile and nod', as some poor shop assistant wonders who this idiot is that doesn't know if she needs a bag or not

Have to say it's not my favourite accent but fuck it-it's your accent, it's where you're from so you should be proud of it. I'm from Sheffield, which, whenever I hear the accent on telly I think sounds really thick but I still love it

I love all regional accents apart from Derby and living in Liverpool but from Watford I have to!

Dad still thinks he is oh so hilarious to mimic very badly the scouse accent

Sorry got carried awat watching montalbano .
Bloody heck, you lot are good, Moseley indeed!
Namechange perhaps?
Maybe i should tell you about falling theough the fence at the Profs & Artists garden party?