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To pick up an accent I was born and bred with in 2 days?

39 replies

mosschops30 · 27/01/2008 21:07

dh seems to think so

Have just got back from a weekend in newcastle where I was bought up. I was with all geordie mates, and obviously everyone we met was geordie and I have come back with a bit of a twang.

Unreasonably dh thinks its terrible and has just stormed off to bed shouting 'youve come back a different person, the best thing you can do is F off back there' !!!!!!

Charming

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talktothebees · 27/01/2008 21:10

what an odd reaction

I assume you'll be keeping the twang until he apologises.

BananaPudding · 27/01/2008 21:13

Goodness, that's a strong reaction. No, YANBU at all. I've just moved to an area with a completely different accent than mine and I am stubbornly clinging to every vestige of a northern accent that I possess!

In fact, I would be furious if dh told me to "f off back to Seattle" because I didn't sound Texan. Your dh needs a kick up the backside for that one. for you!

ChirpyGirl · 27/01/2008 21:15

How bizarre!
I don't have an accent of my own and I tend to mimic other peoples unconciously. DH always knows who I have been out with as he can hear it in my accent, so after 2 days back where you were brought up it is perfectly reasonable for you to have picked up an accent.

flameboy · 27/01/2008 21:15

I go proper geordie if I have been on the phone for a few minutes with someone from home. dh thinks its cute.

LynetteScavo · 27/01/2008 21:16

Is there more to it than the accent?

smeeinit · 27/01/2008 21:17

at your dh for you.

i do that when i go back to suffolk,ive beeen moved from there for 20+ years but always get me suffolk twang back when i go visist.

anorak · 27/01/2008 21:18

Perhaps he's miffed you went away for the weekend without him?

I love a geordie accent.

FrannyandZooey · 27/01/2008 21:18

how odd, he does sound a bit jealous, or threatened, or something? I think NE is a lovely accent (dp is a Makem )

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mosschops30 · 27/01/2008 21:20

i have been away from there for 15 years so i think thats why he thinks its mad! He's never known me with anything other than a welsh accent.

I dont think its the weekend, he's away next weekend for a stag party so fairs fair

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Sycamoretree · 27/01/2008 21:23

My mum only has to be on the phone to her sister (also from NE) for five minutes to pick up her accent again - and she is 63 and has not lived there since she was 21! He is being very unreasonable, not you. I think anorak is right - he miffed about something else, not the accent. Probably the fact that you've had a girlie weekend away whilst he's been at home (with the kids???!?)

WanderingTrolley · 27/01/2008 21:26

Was he a wanker when you left?

It seems to me you've come back and he is a different person.

Very odd way to react.

bonkerz · 27/01/2008 21:26

I originally come from Basingstoke and whenever i go to visit family i end up with a strong accent and start swearing lots! I lived in devon for 6 years and can pick up the accent from there easily. i have a strange accent really because of the places i have lived! Dh knows when im on the phone to my sister because of the way i talk and likewise if im on phone to friends in devon!

MaryAnnSingleton · 27/01/2008 21:27

what's a Basingstoke accent like ? a Hampshire burr ?

Cappuccino · 27/01/2008 21:28

my mum used to get upset at me coming back from university sounding different

I used to say 'basically' a lot for one

I think it was a bit possessive tbh; I didn't sound like 'hers', and it was part of me growing up and moving away so it was understandable

but your dh's reaction is off the scale

Nemoandthefishes · 27/01/2008 21:28

oh dear..is it his time of the month

BumperliciousIsOneHotMother · 27/01/2008 21:39

Was there a context to his outburst? I bet a welsh/geordie accent is interesting! My lil' bro's have a Bristol/Durham accent

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mosschops30 · 27/01/2008 21:47

I know I was just so shocked at his rant, I said 'why do you think you have the right to stand there and speak to me like that' (in geordie obviously)

I'm so glad you dont all think its a bit bonkers, because he clearly thinks somethings up.

He hasnt got a leg to stand on, with the weekend away thing. I'm not gonna be this pathetic when he comes home next week

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frecklyspeckly · 27/01/2008 22:01

I have an accent which marks me out, some like it, some do not. but i am 32 now and it is not going to go away. Nor will i try and change the way i speak to be something i am not) I try be proud (not easy when faced with some people who get really upset when faced with something DIFFERENT)... but i bet your husband may just be slightly showing you he missed you and feels a bit threatened you have been away, it'll probably be okay 2morrow.. bit like little bit of sulk coming out as silly angry words, perhaps? perhaps as soon as he said it he realised it was a daft thing to say..I bet your voice is lovely. oh yes mine does come back -it is what i am and where i am from, after all !! My BIL has horrid friends who are vile about my accent, they all live in a very bland part of the uk. I always think to myself in my head when they say it... oooh yes, wish i lived around here (blandsville) too, makes me really jealous every time i visit...

3andnomore · 27/01/2008 22:12

lol moss...what is his problem?

When I go home to Germany or my mum is for a longer visit my english gets more of a german accent again...completely normal I would think

soopermum1 · 27/01/2008 22:34

i come back from trips back home sounding like rab c nesbit. workmates have even commented they know if i'm talking to a fellow scot as my accent changes on the phone

DH finds it hilarious, but then again he does the same, all croc dundee on thankfully rare trips home. these days he is more essex boy than anything in terms of accent.

bonkerz · 27/01/2008 22:51

Maryann.....Yes its actually more a london accent to be honest, Very common!!!!! Lots of swearing and slang!

nzshar · 27/01/2008 23:13

I have been over here for 13 years now, have a bastardised NZ/Southern England accent. When my mum comes over to stay or i spend more than even a half hour on the phone to someone back home my NZ accent starts getting heavy again. DP thinks its a laugh and takes the p DS (3.7) even has some of my accent which my friends find hilarious as well considering the poor thing hasn't even seen the shores of his mothers homeland yet

twelveyeargap · 27/01/2008 23:16

YANBU. My Irish accent returns even if I've spoken to friends and family on the phone!

DH's reaction was horrid. Mine loves it when I "go all Irish".

How did you sound when he met you? Not that it really matters I suppose... It's still a horrible thing to say to you.

colditz · 27/01/2008 23:23

What outrageous behavior. I would endeavour to hold onto that accent as long as you can

amytheearwaxbanisher · 27/01/2008 23:24

that was nasty and weird of him

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