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Show me your accent!

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catmate · 06/03/2022 22:19

I am really sorry if this has been done to death but I thought it might be fun to guess where we are from based on our pronunciation? I would have loved to have studied linguistics and I love this kind of thing. BtW the way the last thing I want is arguments or piss taking, it's just a bit of fun. To begin with (me) 'fack' for 'fuck'

OP posts:
StoneofDestiny · 07/03/2022 22:30

Nae bother
Aye right
Giein' it laldy

OhLordyWhatNow · 07/03/2022 22:35

I ne'er did zee zuch a girt woak tree avore

^ Original accent for area I grew up in, but is dying out now.

SilverSplitsTheBlue · 07/03/2022 22:39

Slow ye down!

OhLordyWhatNow · 07/03/2022 22:42

Loving the Bristawl accents, wi their funny ideals about goin down Asdals. Aw'right babbers?

MinecraftMuppet · 07/03/2022 22:49

Ach, scundered for ye, so ee am!

transformandriseup · 07/03/2022 22:59

Alrrriight me loverrrr???

Yeah you?

Ere wasson?

Sharnydubs · 07/03/2022 23:21

Iamkmackered1979
Ah..The Invernesians who "Don't have an accent" 😄
You may not use dialect words, but a great many of you will be "Goeeen aaap to catch the baaas , righteenaaaf " 😉
I'm writing this with great affection, by the way, as a "Furryboots-er" with many relatives in Inverness and Ross

beautifullymad · 07/03/2022 23:21

What ee say my luvvur? Do yews mean it my ewe?

Sharnydubs · 07/03/2022 23:28

TatianaBis

That'll be Aberdeenshire - with the emphasis on 'shire ' as opposed to Aberdeen city

MrsMoastyToasty · 07/03/2022 23:32

@Abhannmor ize from Bristol . We talks proper like, we dooze.

Passthecake30 · 08/03/2022 15:39

Not bad, east london followed by north london

Onlyforcake · 08/03/2022 15:41

Is this noos?
I had coocumber in my salad today.

Onlyforcake · 08/03/2022 15:42

Though where I live now it would be a batch

TatianaBis · 08/03/2022 16:07

@Sharnydubs

TatianaBis

That'll be Aberdeenshire - with the emphasis on 'shire ' as opposed to Aberdeen city

Aha
Anonymouseposter · 08/03/2022 17:14

'eyup! Yer 'reet. Si thi!

RedRec · 08/03/2022 19:38

@Onlyforcake

Is this noos? I had coocumber in my salad today.
Somewhere in Norfolk.
NeverDropYourMooncup · 08/03/2022 19:40

@Onlyforcake

Is this noos? I had coocumber in my salad today.
You are Stanley Tucci and I claim my five pounds' prize.
Vitani · 08/03/2022 19:43

Uh need tuh ge'da chube early in mornin', d'ya wan' me tuh buy miwk 'fore uh leave or anyfin'?

Somethingsnappy · 08/03/2022 20:08

I'll fother me yows...

Warszawa · 08/03/2022 20:15

Don't be a squinny ya dinlo

longwayoff · 08/03/2022 20:19

RP only here dear, with a voice like Joanna Lumley. There rest of me looks like Kathy Burke to compensate.

Ormally · 08/03/2022 20:26

I know it's bin on the flor....Gerritet.

squishee · 08/03/2022 20:38

@MooseBreath

Everyone thinks my people say "aboot", when it's actually pronounced "aboat", eh? Otherwise it's a very phonetic accent...
Oh Canada...
JaneJeffer · 08/03/2022 20:47

RP only here dear, with a voice like Joanna Lumley
You sound more like Kim Woodburn Grin

HamsterTrumpet · 08/03/2022 20:50

It’s a liddle bit parky he-ya. Oi’ve troyde to put the foire awn, before oi visit the hawspitol but oi ain’t got no ‘eetin, ‘ave oi?