To hate my accent?

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Are you local? Asked the dentist.
Where are you originally from? asked my dog groomer

I am Cardiff born and bred. My parents are both from here for generations, speak welsh but don’t sound welsh when they speak english. My mum does a bit, like noticeable but my dad sounds southern english.

AIBU to hate my horrible, boring, southern english accent. When really I should sound welsh.

I only lived in the south for 3 year at cambridge for uni and 2 years then in london. Someone even thought they could tell I was from hertfordshire. Not sure if I’ve ever been there in my life.

Grew up in South Wales and it was only after leaving Wales and coming back for visits that I realised that the Cardiff accent wasn't the same as the queens English accent I always thought people from Cardiff sounded so posh (such as Charlotte church)!

Anyway don't worry OP if you're really bothered you could always move to the valleys and fake a Welsh accent until it becomes natural. But that seems like too much effort for what is a non-issue.

Lol UAEMum, I'm the same, from Cheshire, have been down here now for nearly 22 years. I still say bath right and often get asked where I am from.

Hello from Roath!
I don't have a Welsh or a Caaardiff one unless I put it on. Noone ever knows where I am from! When I taught in the valleys they all thought I was posh! I'm not! I'm a Roath girl!!

Not as posh as Edinburgh/Fife and further north but def posher than Glaswegian

No way is Fife posh! I've been down south for around thirty years but it took me a long while to get used to understanding a Fifer. Mind you, the faces of my colleagues who came up to my father's funeral were pictures when faced with broad Aberdeen and West Aberdeenshire accents - I'm mainly RP thanks to my father's work and boarding school though I have no problem in understanding Doric nor with using the grammar and vocabulary.

In my head I’m Kate Winslet. Sort of slightly husky and quite posh.

However, I’ve been told I sound like Adele

I hate the assumption that an rp accent is somehow the 'default.

my horrible, boring, southern english accent

I bet you sound quite pleasant really. The city where I currently live (not my city of birth) has the most appalling accent of all. Having said that, they probably think the same about mine!

Just asked my English DP about my Welsh accent. He said I do sound Welsh but not Swansea Jack Welsh. I grew up 6 miles from the city centre in "the gateway to Gower".

I am aware in work if a person from England phones I feel I switch to a "proper Welsh accent". There's lovely

I love all the different accents and dialectics .... all very intriguing.

My favourite accent is Southern Irish, which is just lovely. All smooth, soft and caressing. Just like being covered in warm melted chocolate.

Im originally from York. Never really thought I had an accent. Until I moved away. Not even moved that far (only an hour or so up the A1). Back when the floods happened on Boxing day in York I remember seeing the news and they were interviewing a local couple. I was shocked at their accents and how typically Yorkshire it was (I thought only West and South Yorkshire had a strong Yorkshire accent and York was pretty neutral), I then noticed my own accent. I am so Yorkshire. Sometimes I dont like it, but other times Im happy to embrace it

I'm from Cheshire but I have worked in Stoke for the last 3 years and DP is from Stoke also. Now have a Stokey twang. Just awful.

I'll raise you all of yours and give you my awful mix of arklow (shitty town on the east coast of Ireland with a pretty unpleasant accent) and scouse.

I also speak very quickly. People outside Ireland and Liverpool struggle to understand me unless I consciously slow down and reign in my accent a bit.

I’m not a fan of a welsh accent, prefer a southern English one.

Nobody can ever work out where I’m from either. Can’t say it bothers me.

OP - you say your family are Welsh speaking. So are mine and I always had to speak English "properly," not use local words etc. I don't sound local when I speak English. I've also noticed, in my town and surrounding areas that Welsh speakers tend to speak better English than most locals. This may just be the people that I know of course.

Ooh a Cardiff meet up!

Totally up for a Cardiff meet up.
As long as you all say round and round the roundabout....

I’m a sucker for an Irish accent - just ask my DH

I’ve been asked several times over the years (including today, as it happens!), if I’m from Australia. I’ve never left the south of England, so I really have no idea why anyone thinks that. Maybe I watched too much Neighbours/Home and Away growing up.

@CoisNaFarraige you wouldn’t be talking about de nortsiders by any chance?
(I keep me gob shuh) 🤐

I have a boring south england (non) accent and i really really hate my voice but the pitch and sound rather than accent but my DH and a few others think i and dc are posh. DH is from SE london/kent. Ds once asked him what pow blue was (pale blue!)

I’m broad Mancunian . Got to say I wish I wasn’t , I’d love to speak nicely. I have though of elocution lessons in the past.

I've got an estuary English nasal voice, and used to hate it. Then realised that it reflects my life, and my family's life so now embrace it. Feel the same about my large nose, used to hate it, now love seeing my grandmother's nose looking at me out of the mirror. Sometimes, how we are is good enough.

@Camillafromcobham, never had aggro from northsiders! Who knows who can afford to live where nowadays, no, but I find there are two accents in suburbs a bit further out, ballybrack/shankill/Bray. Luckily once you get as far as Cabinteely you're safe. Two local accents converge in to one local accent from about Cabinteely/cornelscourt/deansgrange in to town.

I never comment on anybody's (Dublin) accent because i know how annoying it is. But often you're invited to explain why you dont have a stronger accent.

Arklow has an award winningly bad accent it is true @billywigsting

horrible, boring, southern english accent

No wonder the OP fucked off and didn't come back...