mortified - someone at work said i

[EnlightenedOwl]

talk "rough"
i have a strong accent - think Lancashire x Yorkshire and confess the odd "t" has been dropped but do have an immaculate phone voice
No one else has mentioned my accent but this person who I've worked with a while often makes reference to it saying they can't understand me etc
However to say I talk rough is an all time low.
Anyone else ever felt mortified by their accent?

EnlightenedOwl, you should have said 'Well, no, after 14 hours int mill on me hands and knees, I don't get out much' .

Another gem my mother heard in a pub down sarf: 'There's nothing intrinsically wrong with Northerners...'. WTAF!?

I said to my mum she should have chipped in 'Well, love, there's a lot fucking wrong with Southerners!'.

Toffeeboffin - that is a fabulous response I am going to store that one up! Love it!

Oh what a surprise, bring on the southerner bashing. Took a while today, mind.

And it's south. No-one in the south calls it sarf.

Oh yes they do

Well I'm born here and they don't. If anything, saff London. Not said by southerners per se. More likely estuary.

There's a bit of a difference between 'no-one in the south calls it sarf' and it being said by people who speak Estuary English. Unless Estuary speakers are somehow magically classified as northern?

Ffs, pick pick pick.

Unless you have an exceptionally low-prestige southern accent, drbonnie, I'm not sure why you seem to have such a chip on your shoulder.

Why expect your average northerner to be so clued up on the nuances of southern accents when your average southerner is no more clued up on the nuances of northern accents?

People who slag ones accent off is just jealous of it .....
I being from the sarf would never do such a thing ,;-)

sorry but what would a low prestige southern accent be? There's no chip by the way.

what would a low prestige southern accent be?

Most rural ones - people assume you're thick and uneducated.

Thought you'd like that one, Enlightened

I do toffeeboffin, its reet gradely!

Aww "gradely" it's years since I've heard that!

Gradely, god, my dad used to say 'She's a gradely lass!' about a friend of mine

Really strong Geordie accent, use all the slang words in normal conversation but talk posh Geordie if speaking to a non Geordie but even trying to talk posh and slow myself down no one on the phone understands me. It was extremely hard trying to sort out an EE problem over the phone as they have an overseas call center. I didn't say 'Halow can ye help is sort me bains phone oot pet, it's proper nackad n sh cannit get through te nee one' which is how i would normally speak. Even posh Geordie doesn't work sometimes.