The Forty Fifth Republic - Can I get a hair appointment before the summer term starts?

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I'm midlands too - south west. No local accent though. Really fed up with the cold weather here

I have visions of Jan with one of those crime scene boards with a map with little coloured pins in and random information like, mum was from the west country....

My pork was actually very juicy and not dry so google helped. Even ds said it was delicious. I'm really relishing the growing out of the picky phase that is unfolding in him and it's actually got me cooking again. I think I just came to loathe cooking when he was little and pinickity about everything and everything ended up having to be so plain and boring. I can't complain because I was insanely picky and stubborn with it myself.

I had a lovely picture in my head of living in Lancaster and being able to afford to rent a big house and have student au pairs live in so I could have childcare (long time ago) and then I didn't get the job and ran off overseas instead.

No one ever knows where I'm from because I have a nowhere accent and then weird inflections and bits and bobs of dialect from all over that I've picked up off of boyfriends or whilst living places. It is not uncommon for me to be accused of being west country or even as far as cornish when tipsy though. I slur in a south west accent apparently.

Eg. I use the word that 'sounds like' niven for cold which I thought I'd gotten off of living with geordie boyfriend and his brother for years but google doesn't know what I'm on about. Ooh it's nivven/niven/nivvin. Have I just made that up completely?

Thanks to their dad I can sing the Lampton Worm in a Geordie accent.

Sorry mad multiple posting. I have come out of hibernation and am missing talking I think. Perhaps it's time to go back to work after all.

@TheHoneyBadger

Eg. I use the word that 'sounds like' niven for cold which I thought I'd gotten off of living with geordie boyfriend and his brother for years but google doesn't know what I'm on about. Ooh it's nivven/niven/nivvin. Have I just made that up completely?

Thanks to their dad I can sing the Lampton Worm in a Geordie accent.

Nithering in this bit of Yorkshire or mafting if it’s hot.

I have no accent except when drunk and the brummie/south Midlands becomes very prominent. I’ve learnt to translate Yorkshire into normal over the years but I was flummoxed by a lot when I first moved here

It's not time to go back to work yet! I love accent and dialect stuff. It was great when we had proper spoken language at GCSE because kids really got into it.
They always think it's hilarious that I had a dap bag for my daps, for example.

My accent is all over the place as a result of living all over (autocorrect says loving all over, which might also be true), goes really RP when angry, now picking up a slight outer Merseyside twang when being empathetic. Matches my constant slight outsider personality, I suppose. Am trying to raise my own children in one place.

I've had to message the geordie ex to ask him about that word now as it's bugging me. He's a science teacher in Sydney now of all things - couldn't have dreamed of him being a teacher when we were together but he'd likely say the same about me too.

I love accents and dialects too. I used to love boyfriends for whom English was a second language and the fun you could have playing with words and comparing idioms and the like in different languages.

I've done my bit for international relations Things to look back on in my spinsterhood.

@TheHoneyBadger

I've done my bit for international relations Things to look back on in my spinsterhood.

Hahaha, that has made me giggle. I'm not in touch with any so well done you!

My partner is a Manc. Child's accent is a proper hybrid of vowel sounds.

My dad is from Heysham in Lancashire and claims that it rained all the time when he was growing up. I’ve been there lots of times, can confirm he’s exaggerating.

Because of him, I love a North West accent. He left the NW at 18, but 50 years later still says ‘pooer’ and ‘geeeeet’ instead of poor and gate (because he practises his accent regularly to make sure he doesn’t get ‘Southernised’ 😂)

I went to a wedding in Heysham once and can report it was so hot people fainted.

Aw, my dad used to sing the Lampton Worm when I was little !

I cycled to Heysham last summer and it was BOILING.
It does rain a lot round here though.

I think people may think the Piggy Voice is some mad Susan Calman / Billy Connolly hybrid.

It really isn't. Remember my DM is American, my dad is a posh Geordie. Think Alexander Armstrong and I ahve lived everywhere. However, I also determinedly hold on to 'moor' and 'poor' and rolling my rs. But don't say 'girruls' or 'fillum' any more and think I have lost all the dialect/grammatical stuff. Just had a Twitter conversation about 'amn't'.

Most frequently accused of being from the West Country. Where I haven't lived!

However, angry Piggy is quite Glaswegian!

Am going to have to keep a note of all these so I can read your posts in my head in the correct accents! I go very RP when with some of my posher Camb friends and their ilk, but a little bit “estuary” when with family. My Camb friends think I’m a bit common-sounding (I think), home/other friends think I sound posh. It’s all relative isn’t it?

Think Alexander Armstrong and I ahve lived everywhere

You’ve lived with Alexander Armstrong piggy?
I was at college with Ben Miller, so there!

I love accents/dialect too - I think I'm probably close to RP thanks to a Home Counties early childhood. I can, however, mimic a Black Country accent with disturbing accuracy after sharing an office with a lady from Dudley for several years

Oh, my punctuation went a bit awry there!!

Ah, harriet, I heard "Dudley, in the West Midlands" in a perfect Black Country accent there.
My sister used to teach EFL and worked for a German firm who was sending staff to the UK for conferences. Her job was to teach them conversational English, which she did - including her perfect RP.
Imagine her horror when they got back and complained that she'd taught them the wrong English. The conference was held at the UK office, somewhere in the West Midlands. Apparently some of them didn't have a clue what was being said l.

@MrsHamlet

Ah, harriet, I heard "Dudley, in the West Midlands" in a perfect Black Country accent there. My sister used to teach EFL and worked for a German firm who was sending staff to the UK for conferences. Her job was to teach them conversational English, which she did - including her perfect RP. Imagine her horror when they got back and complained that she'd taught them the wrong English. The conference was held at the UK office, somewhere in the West Midlands. Apparently some of them didn't have a clue what was being said l.

That's hilarious!

when traveling, or in egypt, I often translate between between english people with strong accents and waiters who haven't got a clue what they're saying. They'll be like, are you sure they were really English Badger?

Geordie ex says he's now not sure if it's a geordie thing but it definitely means really, really cold.