Poshing up and chavving down your accent...

[LustfulInMiltonKeynes]

...depending on who you're talking to.

Anyone else do this?!

Sometimes I make myself cringe!

"though" becomes "dough"

I used to do this and now try not to, but it just seems to happen! Someone at work told me it was patronising when I changed my accent in speaking with him. I was mortified as it wasn't intentional :( I have a mixed upbringing - south London council estate dad, posh mum, so my accent has always been easily moved from 'Sowf landan' to 'goodness me dear' :(

Wish I didn't do this change accent thing, but heartening to know others do it to :)

ugh, I do this! When the two worlds collide, my accent is all over the place, makes me want to give myself a slap! Mind you, DH is prone to donning the accent if whoever he is talking to. Think Manuel from Fawlty Towers when in Spain and Borat during a recent trip to Budapest!

My accent as a child was definitely London. My mother was appalled and her efforts to get rid of that “F” instead of “Th” resulted in my developing a lisp and several visits to the speech therapist. I now speak RP, but do become a bit more London when I’m with my family.

DD1 went to an American school for the whole of secondary and part of primary. Although she didn’t pick up the accent, she uses entirely American vocabulary, so trash/garbage and diapers, and is often asked where she is from, despite speaking RP. She does, however, have a great Kansas accent on occasion when she is with her friends!