Has your accent changed?

[MardyBra]

I grew up with a fairly strong regional accent. I went to university in my own region but it faded there, mainly because I was mixing with students from another region. Eventually in my twenties I ended up working in London with an accent that was all over the place ( short and long As galore) before returning to my home region with RP with a hint of my original accent.

Hope that makes sense. (I try not to give locational details to keep anonymity).

None of this was ever conscious. Just wondered how others' speech has evolved.

I am Scottish and spent years on another continent growing up.

I have never lost even a smidgeon of my accent. It's not particularly strong but it's never been anything else.

Wiffy rammel means smelly mess where I'm from

I grew up in Africa, Italy and Switzerland, and used to speak English with a very strong Swiss French accent. After I moved to the UK as an adult, I lost the accent and spoke in a typically Radio 4 type accent, with some South/ East African words and pronunciation.

I now live in the USA - my English friends think I sound American and my US friends think I sound English. It is very confusing. My son sounds American now, so people generally do not know he belongs to me, which is strange, as I got so used to people knowing he was mine when we first got here.