Accents

An accent emoticon would be misleading in my case Jangly - I have only been in Scotland since 1957, so all my Scots friends think I speak southern English. I have learnt quite a lot of the lingo though, and understand Fifers better than my DH whose parents were from there (well, he went to Watson's, what do you expect?).

I'm so proud of my DS who has just used the word 'dreich' in a text message. Something Scottish must have rubbed off on him. Mind you, what better word to describe the weather today?

They did, jangly! I recognised 'bauchle' at least! Just for information's sake, a 'bauchle' is a broken-down, comfortable old shoe (or person!!) Well, that's what it is here in Fife, anyway! Think it would be a great idea to have regional emoticon, by the way!

Do you know, I was thinking about accents a night or two back after being in the quiet corner. I think Baggy and Elegran started talking Scotch to each other (sounded like it anyway!) . I think we should have an emoticon type of thing to put after our names to show what accent our posts should be read in! Good eh?

My accent is Anglified or perhaps 'Englified!'/Scots. I really don't like to hear my voice (eg on a recording), but having lived half of my life in Nottingham and the other half in Fife, there's nothing I can do about it. I do love to hear the Nottingham accent though - it takes me right back there!

I was brought up in the East End of London to cockney parents. My mother tried to speak 'nicely' and encouraged us to do the same. We moved to Essex and I went to an good Grammar school where accents were not tolerated so we had to speak ' properly'. So I thought I didnt have an accent - that is until I moved to North Yorkshire where I was not only rumbled but slightly ostracised (small village). Here in South Leicestershire all accents are heard and no-one seems to mind how you speak as long as you are friendly - much more comfy here. What does come out of me at random times are saying and phrases and certainly humour that is definitely East End. I am married to a middle class boy from North London who speak beautifully and doesnt swear so my more colourful expressions are edited

Come to think of it, my English granny lived in Scotland for over 50 years and never lost, or even modified, her Leicester accent.

I think DH1 is like you with regard to accent as well, annobel. (Yes, he is still D without irony, but not to live with ). His parents' accents are much broader and his sister broadest of all.
Nobody can tell from my accent where I'm from except that it is "the north" as I've never suppressed my short 'a' in words like grass and bath. When I first moved to Oxford I had been living in Edinburgh for seven years and even an old Edinburghian (!) thought I was Scottish! That did surprise me. In Edinburgh (we lived in Sighthill) some people thought I was posh until, on a club picnic one time I told my two kids (politely of course ) to 'shove up' on the picnic mat.