TO BE PISSED OFF THAT I PAY 900 FUCKING QUID A MONTH, FOR MY DS 3 TO GO TO NURSERY, AND HE';S GETTING A HIDEOUS NORTHERN ACCENT

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Is that what i am wasting my money on.
Oh the way he says Come 'ere.
really makees me cringe.
900 quid a month for that

I think this thread is quite amusing. Who an earth does the poster think she is. Why an earth do you think your accent is better than a Northern accent. Coming from the North doesn't always mean we drop every 'H' you know, that is simply bad grammer. Can't see why you think a southern accent is so good. Whilst on holiday this year we met some Southerners and there accent was vile in my opinion.

Erm excuse me DM! I know you're anrked at OP but yuou don't have to tar every southerner with the same arrogant brush you know....

My DH has never got over the fact that our DC have southern accents. He mourns for the northern accents that they should have.

Clarissimo - Is the chap next door an old fella, wears a flat cap, keeps ferrets and greyhounds and pigeons, does some sort of manual labour type of job, seems unaware that the house has running water and keeps going outside for a pee? OMG! It is? Send him home will yer? We wondered where he'd buggered off to!

Am now considering starting up my own elocution club for would be soap stars....more chance of a good gritty part if you can only master the finer points of the Yorkshire accent darlings!

I was born in Salford - a quaint seaside village on the outskirts of Manchester and now I have moved to 'Debtors retreat' otherwise known as Bolton. Have PMSL at Squonk and the othern Northern lassies on here!!!! Anyway will just take the whippets for a walk across the cobble stones before I clean out the pidgeons!!
This 'ere is what I sound like now

Ah TT now...

flat cap yes

old sixtyish

no ferrets LOL

Is a professor of philosopphy so not eaxactly manual (polar oppsoite?)

maybe thats why h is hiding down here!

SHOCK! They turned us away from 't' WMC (working mens club) last neet. Said ladies not allowed in 't' games room and if I wanted to join I'd have to get me husband to write a letter for me.

PMSl

we have mens only clubs down home too-carnival clubs though, tahts what they do there. The women drink gin and sew the costumes buta rent allowed to join in.

Sod that, not going there!

sounded at first like a description of my Grandad 'arry - till you said what his job was. Ta cock for clearing that up for me

Clarissimo - prof of philosoppy. It is him! Always did talk SH1T after a few bitters. Keeps ferrets down his trousers so not surprised you haven't seen them yet. Would have been VERY surprised if you had.

The place where Peter Kay filmed Pheonix Nights is in our town about half a mile away from our house. All the audience in his club are local owd biddies who we know!!! They got paid 25 quid each time they acted as his audience. When you go there they play bingo for two quid a house and have 'turns' on - its a right crap night out laugh!

Shabster: It's okay, don't panic. Think I've found yer Gran so Grandad can't be far off.

Take a look at this one - Pure Gold!...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/666541-Yes-my-MIL-has-come-up-trumps-again

Ohh! And top prize at the wmc bingo night? a bottle of stardrops cleaning fluid, pack of toilet rolls or some after eights.

Sorry, off on nursery run. Back later

That sounds like my Mam - our Dotster!!!!

I think she knitted me and my brother cause she certainly knows nowt about baby making - also think she dropped a few stitches in the tact and think before you speak area with me!!!! xx

Sorry Clarrisimo wasn't trying to upset any Southerners, just wanted to point out that although some southerners appear to sound posh, some sound common as muck, just like up North. But IMO I do feel Southerners "think" they sound posh. Just think the OP us being a snob.

Never mind shabster, make do 'n' mend eh! Did she borrow the pattern from the little toilet roll cosies - you know, the ones the look a bit / lot like Little Bo Peep?

I think she did - I am very short 4ft 11in and my bum is wide enough to fit one of those crinoline dresses quite snugly

We live in West Yorkshire. I am from the south and stricly RP, my dh is broad Rochdale and our ds (6)has a delightful Leeds/Rochdale hyrbrid accent. I love a northern accent. I love the north of england and the strength of the northern identify. Anybody who needs convincing should read Stuart Maconie's 'Pies and Prejudice' a wonderful celebration of northern-ness.

northern identity not identify

There you go, world domination is our goal....Imagine....

I have a friend from Brittany who mixes french and yorkshire accents - That is very bizzar! A yorkshire-aussie accent really would be brutal but a cracking night out.

PinotGrigio - that's the name of my best friend, we meet a few times a week. Where abouts are you to have a manc-yorkie child?

People are making generalisations about people from the North. I come from the North and don't have an accent and went to independent schools. People from the North don't all have accents.

Interesting issue as to how you're treated depending on what your accent is, whom you marry and how much you earn. At least we don't have complex castes like India does.

I love being a Northerner - I have lived in Middlesex, Oxford, Gloucester (worked on the pub circuit) and lived in the USA for 6 months. BUT there is no sense of humour like there is up t'North, never found as many 'rough diamonds' anywhere else in the world.

Me too Shabster, though not USA, just worked all over uk (had a job 'on the road' for a few years). I loved coming home.

Still got a soft-spot for a scouse or glaswegian though. Don't think I'll ever find London as friendly.

The OP could be my Mum in the early 1980's I went to an expensive boarding school in Yorkshire and came back down south on holidays with a yorkshire accent - with the assistance of my Dad's sharp hand on the back of my legs I quickly developed a "school" accent and a "home" accent.