To love a regional accent not Like the ones we hear at Wimbledon ha

[Eggsinthemorning]

As above

Where u from

I'm also a northerner although thankfully west of the Pennines so I'm not likely to bump into you I'm proud of my roots but don't have a strong accent because my parents and most people at my state school didn't. An accent is an accident of birth and upbringing, nothing more and not an achievement 🙄

🤣🤣 love it keep been you girl x

🤣🤣your a funny lass and very rude !!! Good job you will never bump in to me !!

And btw it's a great achievement to be super proud to be happy from where come from your obviously not at your state school lol

I hope she eats then where she's from

Brendon Foster does commentary on the marathon and athletics and when he says country it sounds like CUNTRY 🤣🤣

@Eggsinthemorning
I was born in The midlands. Aston Villa is my football team of choice, but was forcibly removed to london as a baby. I do not identify as a southerner even though I sound like one. My mum lived in North Yorkshire for 15 years from when I was 18. She now lives in the West Country. I feel geographically homeless. What do I do!????

That's how I'd say it - how is country pronounced differently? 🤔

😂

I’m from Wimbledon. I live in the North East.

What's the issue?

That's how it's pronounced

I genuinely can't think of any other way to pronounce country.

Coountry? Cantry?

Weird.

I think the OP is taking the piss. My parents are Geordies but I grew up on the south coast. My mother and I have slight accents but my father’s is still fairly broad.

There’s nothing wrong with having a regional accent but having one so strong that it’s hard to understand is a bit difficult (or if someone hams it up to make it difficult).

I think the OP is taking the piss.

No kidding! 😂 😂

I'm from Northumberland, most of my family have geordie accents, I don't have an accent and forever told I'm "posh" until someone gets to know me. I'm not a fan of really strong accents

You do know that 'down south' includes more places than London? There's the whole of the west country for example, you seem to have lumped us in as one and northeners as a seperate species . I know people like you down here though "Cornwall is gods own country, best place/people in the world etc etc" its a horrible, prejudice attitude wherever you're from.

@willstarttomorrow I've never been to Leeds, but it's less than an hour from us so I really should! I think the kids would love Round Hays Park.
I thought the same about Sheffield, it is like a less frantic London, just as diverse, with plenty to see and do, but easier to navigate and won't bankrupt you as quickly! 😂
I quite like the cheaper housing, I'm completely sure our house, in London or thereabouts, would be £millions! DP hates the fare occasion he goes to London for work, he insists on driving back the same day, or he won't go. I think he'd celebrate if the M25 vanished into thin air. 😂

*rare occasion

In this part of Yorkshire at least, it's more "coontreh". I'm probably not doing it justice but it's the closest way I can think of spelling it.

I'm not sure that's an improvement 😂

Do you mean you don't have a "geordie" accent or do you think you dont have any accent. Because if it's the latter, then I can assure you that you do

As Jimmy Carr once said, I don't have an accent. This is how the words are supposed to sound when they are pronounced properly.

:-D

I know that I have an accent because my children spell some words phonetically (“discusting” rather than disgusting, “evulution” rather than evolution).

There’s nothing wrong with an accent as long as it is easy to understand. I remember watching a TV show (I think it was called Canny Coppers) and the accents were so strong loads of it was subtitled.

People shy away from talking about regional accents (because it’s awkward and uncomfortable - no one wants to be Hyancinth Bucket). Letting children think that having a difficult to understand accent is fine (and that anyone who struggles to understand is a snobby, plummy ponce) lets poor children down. Middle class children (even if they have an obvious accent) will generally be easy to understand.

Try presenting something to some Germans or Swedes (or anyone straight talking for whom English is a second or third language). The ones I know are baffled by our inverted snobbery around accents.

No I'm Scottish, the actual north.