To ask if your accent is the same as your parents ?

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I was born in London as were both of my parents. I moved to Spain from when I was 2 until 15 and picked up a Spanish accent. Although I can’t speak it 😬 ( lived in a very touristy area). Both of my parents accents didn’t change. I still have a slightly Spanish accent. People always find this so strange.

Is your accent the same as your parents if you moved abroad when you was young?

RP is a south of England Accent - albeit affected by some people from elsewhere, but it is South of England pronunciation and accent.

Those are still accents.

Yes they have an English accent. You wouldn’t be able to distinguish where in England they are from.

I didn’t start moving around until my 20’s so yes, same as my parents.

My children have American accents though, sound nothing like me.They say that they can’t “hear” my British accent as they’re so used to me!

You mean they sound as if they are from the South of England?

Born in Cornwall, moved up north via Oxford
Have a Lancashire accent
Parents both had Bolton accents but quite mild. Rest of the family is as Bolton as you can get

I think parental accents are really only a small part of how you land up sounding. My parents are English, I am South African. I speak with a South African accent. My children speak with English accents, but both occasionally have a small South African twang. DS is older than DD so that might impact things but she definitely has a slightly "posher" accent. I assume because DS friends mostly have accents themselves (he has a very international friendship group) and possibly because he watches too much tik Tok and follows a different type of influencer!

I'm born and bred in the same place as my parents. You can't actually distinguish between me, my mum or my sister talking at times!

My Uncle moved from London to Scotland when he was 2. He has a proper East London accent, even though he's lived in Scotland for almost 60 years. I find that baffling.

No, that’s not correct. My DH has a Southern accent. My children are plainly spoken with no discernible accent. I went to law school with plenty of people with similar accents from all over the country. In fact, my cousins cousins are Scottish and don’t have an accent either. You might describe it as posh but I won’t as I think that posh is a vile word.

More or less - my parents were from much further north from where I was born and grew up (Inverness > Glasgow) and I have what I refer to as a 'mongrel Teuchter' accent: much softer than a standard Glasgow accent, but not quite as sing-songy as a classic 'Sneck accent.

I think you can tell i'm Northern, but i sound nothing like my parents, they are very broad Yorkshire, my mum more so since she married my stepdad.

How do they pronounce “glass” or “grass”?

Are you Hilaria Baldwin ?

Is “posh” insulting? I genuinely did not know that. Can I ask why?

...that's still having an accent, though.

Lots of people have accents that aren't specific to a certain region - they're still accents!

I'm from the Southern US, and I have a Southern accent, but it is much less pronounced than my parents' accent was. My children grew up and still live in the South, and their accents are much less Southern than mine, partly because DH is from the North, and also the influence of television has a lot to do with it.

I'm better spoken than my sister or parents because my dad pulled me up on my pronunciation when I was a child (eldest).

My parents are from London and my mum and her mum in particular were born within hearing of the Bow bells. My nan, before she died found it harder and harder to understand my usual accent so I reverted to a cokney twang when I was around her .

I actually switch accents (wider than just RP/ london) and pronunciation without realising quite often and pick up on other people's vocal tics which is embarrassing but useful at times.

My dad reverts to a northern Irish afcent when he's been there as he spent half his childhood there

Nope. Mum was born in London and dad was born in Bristol. I was born in Plymouth but no one can work out where I'm from! So far had Stevenage and Portsmouth...

Nope. It was a deliberate change on my part.

I was a teacher for many years of a demographic of students who were almost all immigrants, many refugees, for whom English was their second, third or even fourth language. My Kiwi vowels confused them, especially if I got a little stressed (I was teaching 16-18 year old boys. This is easily done). So to be understood I had to deliberately change my accent to a more estuary one.

So now I sit somewhere in the middle. In NZ I sound English and in England I still come across as Kiwi to most people.

My mum is English from Surrey, and my dad is Spanish. I learned English from my mum first, with a neutral accent and then learned Spanish at school. I have a Spanish accent when speaking English but quite a few English new acquaintances tell me my Spanish is too good to be English and my English too good to be Spanish. So they are a bit mystified about my origins.

Oh sorry, should have said they don’t have a regional accent. Lord knows why people are getting their knickers in a twist over this.

No, not at all.

My mum's from Newcastle and my dad is from the south of England.

I don't really have an accent, but I have some odd pronunciations of certain words. I tend towards the Northern pronunciation of words like glass, grass, castle, etc. but the odd "posh" one slips in.

Yes, I'm very boring. My parents are from the north east and so am I. I've never moved so have the same accent. Although they are both from different towns about 20 minutes apart but are generally the same now.

Oh sorry, should have said they don’t have a regional accent. Lord knows why people are getting their knickers in a twist over this.

I think it's in part because people are using confusing language, or they are associating RP only with southern England when it is spoken (with some variations not necessarily regional) all over the UK. And yes it is considered "posh."

I take exception to the claim that, for example, RP isn't a regional accent, despite the fact it has the pronunciations of a South Eastern England in it. Just because it's affected by people in Harrogate or Edinburgh doesn't make it sound less like Southern English. If I taught myself to speak like a native of Govan with their local accent, it wouldn't be a non-regional accent just because I don't come fe Govan.