Following on from the "how do you imagine other members look" thread........

Lemongrove the first lesson was,a surprise! Hat to say the teacher 's name over and over: Miss Thistlethwaite ??? really true!

I sound mildly London having been brought up in London with Scots and Lancashire parents. Londoners think I sound northern.

Bugger, posted too soon, but you get the gist!

It's the modern version, lemon, the old style ones were just called a locution, it's only now that the new ones are elocution. [

In that case, I hope you learned to play it well.?

The impact of my elocution lessons can be heard in the recordings!

I chose elocution when my dad said I could choose an extra class. I knew what a piano and violin was but I had not heard of an elocution!

PECS I once heard a recording of my voice and was surprised, as it didn’t sound as my voice sounds to me when I speak ( the recording sounded better)
Unsure which is the true voice, but I suppose we all hear things differently.

Must admit, I have never wondered how GN members sound, and although I have met and chatted with quite a few of you, cannot now summon up how you actually sound.?
So, no strong accents I am guessing.

BTW, there are some members who have met me, and therefore know how I sound!

I am always surprised when I hear my voice on a recording..it is not how I think I sound!

My mother used to sound like Margot Leadbetter, especially when she thought she was being ignored.

If you caught her standing on her own (a very rare occurrence) at a family get together and asked if she was alright you'd more than likely get,

' Oh, hello stranger! I appear to be in splendid isolation.'

Funny though it was, you didn't dare laugh. Well, not to her face anyway.

Of course I don’t have an accent. Born in and early years on Middsex. Then Hertfordshire and for the last 40 years Buckinghamshire.
When I am up North or down in the West Country I have often been referred to as having a ‘posh’ accent.
I love hearing different accents although I like some better than others.

I have been scouring YouTube for a clip of Peter Sellers as Fred Kite in “I’m All Right Jack”
Alas, without much success.

PS "posh & authoritative" makes me think of Margot Leadbetter in the Good Life, and I'm definitely NOTHING like her!

Well, callgirl1 I suppose my speaking voice is what I would regard as accentless, although apparently that is impossible!

However, when I was a riding instructor, I could make my voice heard across an Olympic sized dressage arena without actually "shouting" (it's all in the projection, darling, from the diaphragm, not the throat! )

I have to admit that after many years away from Glasgow, I still have a Glaswegian accent. Not Billy Connolly or Rab C Nesbit, more Kirsty Wark, with just a hint (I am sorry to say) of Laura Kuenssberg.

Ah but Phoenix, are you posh and authoritative?

I love the infinite variety of accents in the UK. Mine is probably a mix of Central/Highland/West of Scotland. I tend to pick up the accent of wherever I am living at the time.

but not by

What a coincidence NannyJan DH and me are both Birmingham born and bred by when we moved closer to the Black Country, we could hardly understand a word people said!

I wonder how people imagine I speak ?

Yes, KatyK* I am Black Country aye I

Often strangers think I am from Birmingham, but they are different accents.

We were in Stamford last week, and chatting to a couple who sat nearby. She was from Surrey, but my Partner immediately recognised her husbands accent as from Birmingham area. Turned out in grew up in the Walmley area of Sutton Coldfield (same as partner) and they had a good chat about growing up in that area.

My aunt is from Newport South Wales Annie she's been in Scotland for over 70 years and still has her Welsh accent,

And mine's a Brummie, not Black Country - they're different.

Oim ampshire.....?