My children have Dublin accents

[MaLarkinn]

and I fucking hate it!

There, i said it.

Haha Dustin!

Arkla Arkla Arkla Co. Wicklow 🎵

That's going to be stuck in my head for days now

A little taste of home!

I've been accused of sounding like the late Rev Dr Ian Paisley and I've never even lived anywhere in Ireland.

I'm not saying he wasn't a lovely speaker or anything, obviously.

Ouch! That's a funny one.

Out of interest what accent would you say Pierce Morgan has?

I listened to ross o'carroll kelly "Brayside" on audible and the narrator did the arklow accent justice 😂😂

Oh wow, you must have some hellfire and brimstone boom to your voice, @Triphazards?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=zmmkjjQBF8U

@Jenasaurus

Out of interest what accent would you say Pierce Morgan has?

English! RP

I would say Piers Morgan has a well to do/middle class, SE English accent.

Not RP though

@WagnerTheWehrWolf

I'd love to hear a 'howiya' accent right now. Has been so long since I've been home!

I recommend Brayside. It is hilarious. Obviously it revolves around school rugby teams but Sharton and Ronan and Sharton's parents have accents the narrator do3s perfectly. It was a funny book that had to be listened to. Only one character from arklow thankfully!

I have a wandering accent. Born in London to very London-accented parents, lived in Kent until I was 4, then Northumberland until 10 - where I picked up a Geordie twang, then down to the south east, where the Geordie twang was disapproved of and squished, then (after 3 years in Huddersfield) moved to the west of Ireland, where I've been for 20 years - and what started as a parody of the local accent has stuck in some places. so I now say 'care' when I mean 'car'. I tend to unconsciously reflect people;s accents back at them, not having a fixed one of my own!

Rebecca Rabbit has estuary english and that does not sound nice to my ear.

Piers morgan's accent does sound nice (to me)

You mean you have a couple of Howayas

Isn't estuary English the one that is like RP but not as clipped or fake?

I certainly didn't mean Essex or cockney by it.

Have I been telling myself false information all my life!!!! 😮

@Shopgirl1

My kids have south side Dublin accents, not American sounding though. I hate it. I’m Irish, but from Munster. Worse again, they support the Dubs!

This. I think the supporting the Dubs is the hardest part

*fake sounding

My son is only 2 and speaks in my Irish accent despite living in London. I’ll be so sad when he inevitably loses it when he starts nursery! Would love him to have a Dublin accent!

My perception of estuary is that it's that accent with the long drawn out vowels. RP has "quicker" vowel sounds. I dont know how to describe this!!

Isn’t it literally ‘estuary of the Thames’.

Ok.. holly willoughby - RP?
Zoe Ball - tiny bit estuary. That is a bit unfair to her but cant think of better examples.

This is how I understand it.

Or is it ME who has been WRONG all my life?

Also surely if you speak like the queen you have an extraordinarily strong southern English accent?

Radio 4 Today show is what I think of as RP.

Holly Willoughby doesn't have an RP accent.

Think David Attenborough. That very clipped and cut glass BBC voice of decades ago.