To put a regional accent on mumsnet replies

[thenettyprofessor]

just that really, I read one comment in a Welsh accent, followed by London etc I go round the UK, Sometimes I even throw in a South African, American or Australian, it makes reading more fun

I read a thread once where someone mentioned all the user names sound like race horses. So now I sometimes read them in a racing-commentator's voice.

Otherwise they all speak RP like me. Except when English isn't their first language.

I’m always wide eyed at the baby name threads when people discuss pronunciations and you southerners either ignore Rs completely or add them in randomly.

It’s hysterical.

I'm intrigued now @thenettyprofessor. What accent are you reading my comment in? Where do you think I might be from?

thistlebelle is southerners? Really!

Ffs what is it with threads as the minute where people can't grasp regional differences in pronounciation?

*us

Anyway, like a PP, I read in My accent, RP.

I’m American, if you want to read my posts in an authentic accent.

Grilled I can absolutely grasp regional differences.

I just think the things RP accents do with Rs are funny.

RP is the Queen's accent. Is that really your accent, you two? It's used by a vanishingly small percentage of people these days. Just saying.

Yes, it is. But actually if you listen to the Queen from broadcasts old and new, you'll see it has changed slightly, even for her, as the Queen. It's quite "usual" to hear RP where I am.

I am laughing that you explained my own accentvto me though😂

Argh *accent to

Hey up duck.

Bostin I have no real idea but I'd have a stab and say Lancashire or Estuary.

How many hundreds of miles out am I?

You can tell from my user name where I'm from, complete with a thick comedy accent. Nobody can say the place names round here without putting on the accent.

Buuuuurmingum
Wulver-ramptun

Bostin - Stoke?

What accents do you read my posts in?

Although 'bostin' is a proper Black Country word - hmmm!

I have a blocked up nose at the mo if you want to read mine in a sort of bunged up voice

Alright bab

I'm interested to know what accent I'm read in too.
Imagine Kryten Spare Head 3 in Red Dwarf. Bout sums my accent up lol

I was hundreds of miles out then -Bostin !

Yow alright cocka?

I wasn't explaining it to you aubergines - I don't know what you sound like! I don't know anyone who talks like the Queen! I just know that lots of people use that term incorrectly.

Don't think I'll ever stop doing the racing commentator username thing now