to love regional accents

[Owllady]

And love having one myself :) ?

(Has this been done before:o)

I have the worst one too, black country ay it bab

Don't understand why anyone wouldn't be happy with a "boring" RP accent?

It is quite rude actually.

I have the closest to that, but as I have lived all over (including the US) for a good few years -I am a mix!

My DH has a lovely very soft American accent.

So did all the three children. Now we live in Dorset! Eldest sounds a little bit transatlantic ( apparently) and my younger two are a bit west country. I don't think it is dying out, especially as we boarder with Somerset ( very strong)

One of my friends (in danger of outing self here) was born in Stoke, moved to California as a child and then moved back to Stoke as an adult. She has the strangest hybrid California Stoke drawl I've ever heard. I could listen to her for hours she fascinates me.

When we were in LA a few years ago we used to visit the Starbucks near our hotel, one morning the girl who always served us asked DH if he'd mind very much just staying there for the day and talking to her because she loved his (very stoke) accent.

It is a lovely accent though :)

Yes my Granddad worked at Fives. My Great Granddad worked at the Valley too.

Burntwood swimming baths was so heavily chlorinated that I am convinced that it was some sort of attempt at birth control as it would have killed all sperms on contact.

haven't heard her for a while but I used to love hearing Bjork speak, if memory serves she spoke Mancunian English with an Icelandic accent. Gorgeously weird.

Richard Armitage in from Leicester, isn't he - could listen to his accent all day and all night whispering sweet dirty nothings in my ear.

There is nothing I find more atrtactive in a man than a regional accent. Any accent, to be honest, but my least favourites are south east/London and Midlands.

I have a Welsh accent. Its nowhere near as strong as it used to be, as I haven't lived in Wales for 15 years. I have 2 DSs with local south east accents, and my 6yo doesn't think that my voice sounds at all like my parents' voices, and they still live in Wales. Though I will never lose my accent - its properly ingrained in my being.

They call the Wolvo accent 'yam yam' around here and say it is different from basic BC accent. I was South Staffs BC too, now North Worc border but the accent is still used this way as much as the MC parents try to quosh it.

My accent is all over the place - mix of Yorkshire & Northeast with some pronounced Midlands word endings for added confusion. DH's is fairly typical but mild East Durham, though - falling far short of his dad's Pitmatic.

I gasped when Nick Knowles called the guy on DIY SOS a Geordie, on Monday, btw.

Owllady - when I went to school in Staffordshire, I was taught that the local accent had very strong links to old Anglo-Saxon.

I remember a column called "Sosh says" in our local free paper. I couldn't make head nor tail of it!

Found some Sosh!
m.facebook.com/notes/the-stunner/sosh-says/196570173551/

Our local paper had 'Me Un Mar Lady'. Dave Follows died some years ago sadly but still love the cartoons.

My accent is awful. No one likes the Wigan accent.

Rofl, that sounds like my gran. She says things like frittened, mithered, puthered too. Brilliant words. She thinks I talk posh

I remember when I first moved to Kent someone asked me if I was from Tipton :o

Hahaha I always say mithered. 'Oh stop bloody mytherin meh ya shit'

ouryve I've heard this too, apparently it is to do with the lack of navigable rivers, so people didn't move in and out of the region so readily.

Clemmed, blart and yowking still occasionally pop up in my vocabulary.

I'm so boring, I'm from North Essex near suffolk, and I have no accent at all. I sound so posh and bland.

Ouryve mine is also a bit of a North East (East Durham)/ Yorkshire type mix (lived in North and West Yorkshire for a good few years previously). I like my accent, though I'm a bit monotone with it.

Husband is Black Country, fairly mild compared to his family as he's moved around a fair bit- but it took me a good while to get used to and he still produces the odd word that means nothing to me.

Oh yes blart and gawp :)
Lol at the chlorination at burntwood baths, it once turned my hair green

Well luv am not bein funneh bu I speak lark a propa commona

I had no idea that gawp was a regional thing! I gawp too then!

Do any of you BC types know any Aynuk and Ayli jokes? I love the one about caatchng a whale in the cut. But Anuk throws it back because "It day have no spokes!"

Haha v good. I had not heard them, no. Give us more bab

Aynuk needed to go to Brumagum but had never been on the bus before and didn't know how to buy a ticket.

So he spoke to Ali and Ali said 'day be saft, just say what the person in front of you says.'

So later that afternoon Aynuk sets off on his adventure, but within 10 minutes he's back at Aynuk house.

What happened?

I got flung off
Why?

Well Aynuk said ' there was this woman in front of us and she said 'Shirley single' so I said 'Aynuk married' and the driver wanged me off.

:o