Accents

I'm another Brummie. Originally from Ladywood, which despite its rather genteel sounding name, was and still is, considered one of the roughest parts of the city.

I still regard it as 'home' even though we moved to Worcestershire 60 odd years ago.
I love regional accents. Mine can vary depending on the social situation I'm in. I still have a noticeable Brummie accent and when I meet up with my relatives from Birmingham I automatically slip back into full Brummie.
I never acquired a Worcestershire accent.
I've been told by several people that I remind them of Julie Walters in appearance (when I was young) and when I speak.

I love my accent, anyone can tell that I come from Liverpool, it is not a thick liverpool accent but I have that twang, which I deliberately set out to keep. It attracts people and goes with my nature. It would have been so easy to have gone into accentless, all those posh dinners and mixing etc but no, I wanted to be me, to reflect my background

My Dad was from N.Ireland and Mum was from Wiltshire. I grew up and went to school in Surrey where accents were a mix of RP and Estuary-ese. After college in Birmingham, I spent a year in America then lived in Luton before settling in Staffs for most of my working life. My accent is mainly RP but I enjoy hearing Midlands accents which happens regularly now I’ve retired to Torbay!

Southern standard English with a strong touch of the London when it comes to phrasing sentences and getting excited.

I do enjoy hearing a regional accent, and perhaps flatter myself that I can generally place them geographically, to the extent that I can differentiate between a Yorkshire and a Lancashire one. For myself, although I've moved around a lot, I still retain a trace of my North-eastern roots. Think Kevin Whateley. I won't say Vera, as talented actress though she is, Brenda Blethyn doesn't quite come across as a native North-easterner. Also, although her home ground is set as Lindisfarne, her adopted accent for the part has more Tyneside Geordie than Northumbrian about it, as there is a subtle difference as any local will tell you.

I have a Wearside accent and yes it is different to Geordie, North of the Tees we tend to get lumped together as Geordies but I am more Wendy Craig than Ant and Dec.

Lots of people confuse Birmingham and Black Country accents. I cannot understand Black Country, but like to hear it, found them to be very warm people, perhaps not to read BBC news though. I love regional accents, but can’t watch The One Show as the Welsh accent is like listening to chalk on a blackboard, which is strange as I normally like Welsh accent..

I’m from Durham - the Land of the Prince Bishops and have a North East accent. Much as I like Newcastle, I am not a Geordie (that’s north of the Tyne) and I like to think my grammar is good - I don’t drop my Gs, nor do I use slang, e.g. gannin instead of going and don’t get me started on the Durham girls on Gogglebox! 😱
I totally agree with Harrigran’ and *NanaDana about the subtle differences in this area - we know who we are.
Apparently our accent is very trustworthy, which is why a lot of companies based their call centres up here.

Despite leaving my home county (Wiltshire) when I was 18, and living all over the world, people still ask me which part of the West Country I'm from. I've now lived in the East Midlands for over 50 years and peop!e still hear Wiltshire!

I was born in Portsmouth, lived in Bath until I was twelve then moved to Fife. For the last forty plus years I have lived in Cheshire. People still tell me they can hear the West Country in my accent, but I was surprised when only a couple of weeks ago someone asked if I was Scottish; I thought I had lost any vestige of that long ago. Apparently I have no trace of the local accent in my voice. I have been accused of having a posh voice but I suspect this is not related to accent but because I was brought up to ‘speak properly’ and this has stayed with me.
I love the Geordie accent which to my ears sounds friendly and almost melodic and the beautiful softness of the Western Isles.

"gannin" is dialect, not slang.

Aussie with a pommie twang I think but I can imitate many accents and always have been able to. The one I can’t do very well is Glaswegian.

I’m from Liverpool the accent varies it depends where you are from. I wouldn’t say it’s a really strong Scouse accent. I like regional accents it’s who you are and your identity.

Oh yes Oops. We live on the edge of The Black Country and even with our broad Brummie accents we were called 'posh' when we moved here.

I suppose mine is RP, I was brought up in West London, although I did modify it when working with young people in poor city areas across the country. I didn’t want to appear unapproachable.
DH was born in Yorkshire, but moved to West London when young, he has maintained pronouncing some words the Yorkshire way, which always amused our DCs.

annodomini my Liverpool schoolmates said my Aberdonian mother had a strong Scottish accent. To me she just sounded like mum

I was born in the North West of England and usually at home speak a "Broad" dialect I see up post someone else uses the term as well.The men all call each other "Marra".
I change it slightly when I go out as it is a very regional and although I live near now they can detect the difference and ask if I am a "marra."
I moved around the country a lot and picked up Geordie, Durham and other places.
I can If I choose to speak RP ,we had election lessons at school and had to use it when socialising with DH.
The most famous person alive from my part of the world is Melvyn Bragg and he has changed his or tried to.The others being Wordsworth and Fletcher Christian and we can only guess how they spoke.

The most famous person alive from my part of the world is Melvyn Bragg and he has changed his or tried to

Perhaps a grammar school education and elocution lessons at school modified his accent, as it did for many of us.
Melvyn Bragg and Hunter Davies were from the same area, as was another author we met once on holiday who was at school with Melvyn and had a similar, gentle accent.

Born in a part of Essex,now considered as East London,my accent is very,pauline Quirk ( birds of a feather,or Gemma collins TOWIE)
complete with a glottal stop.
I have lived in Norfolk for the past 15 or so years,bits of Norfolk phrases have crept in.
My accent is just that,an accent,it is probably unattractive to the majority,but it dosent reflect on who I am as person.

RP for me which like previous poster not particulaly proud of, it just is! Sometimes get asked if I had elocution lessons - no!

I like to hear accents. It would be boring if we all spoke the same way. As I have lived in different parts of the country my accent has changed but some can still pick up where I came from originally.

I have a very broad yorkshire accent, sometimes im very aware of it when talking to someone who speaks correctly, i use yorkshire slang and to me it can sound terrible so what must it sound like to them 😁😁