Suzanne Shaw...what accent is that?

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Faux posh, clipped BBC with a hint of something else...

Very annoying!

(Had this morning on to see Gove)

I wanted to hear it straight from the bull's arsehole....

she has always spoken like that when she has been on telly when she was ditched by darren day she was all over the telly and her accent was the same,
It is Laurie Brett who blows my mind I mean properly when she was in enders she spoke with her English accent then waterloo road and out with her scottish on Lorraine kelly Scottish accent on the one show English poor woman doesn't know where she is from

Some people are more prone to pick up different accents than others I think. They aren't necessarily doing it on purpose.

Picking up, I mean

I think you are right on the picking up of accent I dont think people really hate being northern and change it, unless you are Laurie brett i cant let it go

Some people do pick up accents really easily, my friend moved to Australia and soon had a twang but some people drop theirs on purpose.

It's only in the last few years that Robson Green has gone all luvvie.

Works the other way, I moved from Midlands up North (not that far from Bury) and after very few years could hear myself sounding like Bubble off Ab Fab.

yeah he is smugly lovvie isnt he it is bloody annoying no way aye man for our Robson these days is it

I have an aunt and uncle who live in another country longer than they lived here they have accents for where they live and it is like a light switch when they cross the border it is amazing my uncle has lived in England 50 odd years

"It is Laurie Brett who blows my mind I mean properly when she was in enders she spoke with her English accent then waterloo road and out with her scottish on Lorraine kelly Scottish accent on the one show English poor woman doesn't know where she is from "

Same with John Barrowman! He has an American accent usually and then every so often he slips into A Scottish accent. I know he's from Scotland originally but it's like make your mind up John! What accent are you using today? :o

I must admit that I change my accent depending on who I'm talking to. It comes from years of being taken the piss out of, on holiday, by southeners. If I'm talking to someone from down south then I'll use a more neutral accent - probably a bit similar to Suzanne Shaw. If I'm speaking to someone who's reet northern then I'll go a bit more northern.

yes he is in and out of that accent all the time, when he does his scottish concerts he does his scottish accent my mum has the DVD not that i watched it or anything

As for Lulu..............

As for Lulu..............

lets not go there it gives me the rage,

Yes Lulu is VERY confused re accent isn't she?

Everyone from Dennistoun sounds as though they're from L.A.

aye so they do

I had a friend from Dennistun her L A accent was amazing

They have American accents in Bellshill too, why else would Sheen Easton talk the way she does!

My favourite accent change was Ritchie from 5ive on the Big Reunion.

He is now Aussie - the baffled look on his bandmate's faces was HILAIR when he pretty much bounced in on a kangaroo wearing a cork hat shouting 'G'day moyte!' At the rest of them as they stared, slack-jawed.

Look. The UK is now a country where geographical mobility is required for employment, due to advanced capitalism. This means many people will live in different regions for periods as both a child and an adult. Unless they surround themselves entirely by people from Surrey, they are going to pick up bits and pieces of all different accents, and it's not because they are 'pretending' or 'feeling they have to lose their accent', it's because that's what they hear every day. Really, the UK is miniscule in international terms and trying to pin down which even tinier bit of it someone is from is a hobby for people who don't have the many and varied leisure resources provided by a telly or computer, which clearly you do. It's pretty offensive to those of us who've moved a lot to be constantly asked 'where exactly' we are from or 'what accent is that', when usually we don't even know ourselves. Even more so when combined with being told we are fake just because we aren't lucky enough to have a posh job/rich spouse which funds us to live where we like permanently.

If you don't like it, you can address capitalism, not the people who are already stressed out enough by being forced to uproot every 3 years.

They have American accents in Bellshill too, why else would Sheen Easton talk the way she does

I remember years ago there was a concert all over glasgow cant remember what for but there was one at night and sheena easton came on did her fauz american accent then tried to slip back into her scottish and was booed

He is now Aussie - the baffled look on his bandmate's faces was HILAIR when he pretty much bounced in on a kangaroo wearing a cork hat shouting 'G'day moyte!' At the rest of them as they stared, slack-jawed.

Shaun from 5ives face was the best he had this going on