My children have Dublin accents

[MaLarkinn]

and I fucking hate it!

There, i said it.

I absolutely love the Cork accent.
There are some regional accents that I am not so fond of but love the variety.
I spent years hating my Welsh accent but love it now, sounds like home.
Also English people from the South East, yes you all have accents and there is no shame in it

Oh yes, david Attenborough, I totally agree that he's RP but has RP evolved a little bit over the five or so decades since he was a young man?

I'm Irish so I am not claiming that this is the case! But for RP, David Attenborough is a high bar!

@Alrassan

I absolutely love the Cork accent. There are some regional accents that I am not so fond of but love the variety. I spent years hating my Welsh accent but love it now, sounds like home. Also English people from the South East, yes you all have accents and there is no shame in it

my boss is from cork and he gave me a shit sandwich today and hammed up the cork when he was giving me the shit.

I can always tell when he's thinking ''this is difficult for me but I'm going to say it anyway'' because his cork accent doubles!

Yeah it's definitely evolved, you can hear the difference in the way the Queen speaks now versus the way she spoke in the 1940s.

But I would say Holly W has a middle class English accent rather than an RP one. Emma Watson's on the other hand is that bit more refined so maybe she's an example of modern RP.

Here we go:

Anyone i ever met who says they "don't have an accent" speaks like this!!

@CherryValanc

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!!!! 😮

No, Estuary is very much like your classic Eastenders and Towie accents. Characterised by the Glottal stop (buh’ uh instead of butter, waw’ uh instead of water etc), the F or V for Th (mouf instead of mouth, Muvver instead of Mother etc) and the K for G (nufink instead of nothing etc). Eastenders crossed with Towie because many Eastenders moved out of the East End after war and I to the green spaces of Essex (like ‘Arlo’ - Harlow). Absolutely nothing wrong with it, and I do love all accents tbh, rich history and all that, but I tried to tame it because I wanted to be taken seriously in my job and I did feel others would judge. Ah well, wrong I know, but......

Actually, now I’m thinking about it, I’m chuckling remembering my late Grandfather’s accent. Completely, impenetrable Kerry accent. Even to other, younger, members of the family (he was born in 1923). And he emigrated to South East London in the late forties. I remember one of his friends on the council (corporation) painting and decorating team, saying he didn’t always understand my Grandad’s words, but he sort of understood the ‘Irish sounds’ he made 😂

Wow, interesting. She has a good ear for an American. That mild glottal stop is hard for Irish people to put on. . I could never do a normal English accent, I could only put on full on cockney or RP. The estuary accent is very hard to do if it's not how you actually speak.

So true, I found that some English people would say Lore en awduh instead of law and order, and believe that they "no accent".

Piers, he has posh Home Counties accent
No accent is code for English and probably posho

I used to be a French teacher in Liverpool and every now and again I would hear 30 Scouse kids reciting something back to me in a strong Northern Irish accent. My apologies to both those kids and any French person they ever tried to talk to!

That’s a really charming image, 30 scouse weans speaking French with a NI accent

I live in Scotland and taught English as a second language for years. One Turkish student really had an ear for language and worked incredibly hard ( ended up getting into St Andrews to do his Masters!) and I worked with him to a very high level. However, he also picked up the local Fife lingo and would make me corpse in lessons by saying things like “ Ach, I dinner ken the answer” and “goan give me a wee minute take think”
He now teaches English at a university in Turkey and I dread to thing what he’s teaching them!!!

@Exasperatedcroc

I used to be a French teacher in Liverpool and every now and again I would hear 30 Scouse kids reciting something back to me in a strong Northern Irish accent. My apologies to both those kids and any French person they ever tried to talk to!

As someone who went directly from fifth year French taught by Bean Uí Bhrosnacháin from Sneem to being an au pair in Toulouse, you cannot imagine...

Never speak with a glo'l stop!

Hmmmm, I wonder if I mean Home Counties then rather than Estuary English. I will have to admit I've heard them as terms for accents but never really bothered to think about where that places them on a map 😳.

I'm okay with the ones that have the same name as the area that are from 😀

@WipeYourFeet

Could be worse. Could be a culchie accent What accent do you have? Its disconcerting when your LOs have a different accent to you alright!

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I dont mind a culchie accent except for Arklow.

Youse are whingin about Arkla and Drogheda accents.
Have yiz not heard the Waterford accent ?

It's Arkla on steroids

You mean your heart wouldn't skip a beat if John Mullane whispered in your ear?

I'd have to steady myself!

Mullane's is a gentrified version.

Aww that’s a funny one. Drawer full o Mass cards that ye sign and pop a few Bob in
My ma had such a drawer in the kitchen,cards,menus,out of date bus timetables

Pop money into a Mass card

Is this a thing now. ????

I've sent and received Mass cards but never put money in or got money in one. .

@LadyEloise

Pop money into a Mass card

Is this a thing now. ????

I've sent and received Mass cards but never put money in or got money in one. .

Not that I’ve ever come across. Wouldn’t it be quite weird, given that Mass cards are most often sent for an illness or a bereavement? My mother, who is old school, does also send them for other occasions, but I have pointed out that other people (I mean, besides me) also mostly associate them with funerals or the anniversaries of deaths, rather than weddings or birthdays.