General Chat

Im Mansfield and proud, lol. Moved to Banbury aged 16, and adopted their rather posh accent gradually, without realising. My boss at work hated anyone North of Banbury and their accents, so that made things hard for a while. But then he was a woman hater in general lol. Living in Coventry I had no particular accent, but having moved North of Coventry now, I've gone back to my Mansfield tones slightly, as there are a lot of people from all over here.

Keep your individuality folks ,it's what you are and where your roots are!
My Lancashire /Manchester accent only surfaces when speaking with tourists from that area -
Lynda in Cyprus xx

Hi Helen S - I have a couple of Stotties in my freezer. Whenever anyone is going up to Geordieland I get them to bring some for me. I am Midlands born but of one parents Newcastle and the other Jarrow - one each side of the Tyne. As a result of this 'parentage' and my Midlands birth, I am a real mixture with probably mainly a midlands accent but lots of Geordie phrases thrown in and a bit of a geordie twang as well.

I live in the sussex and don't think we have any accent here..............do others from outside the county think we do?

xx

It IS pronounced Newcahstle! LOL!
When in Rome and all that...!

Hayley, thank you but I haver never twanged in my life. lol BC

Sylvia,I bet its my accent that you hate,midlands,I hate it too.By the way its not brummie,mine is Walsall,believe it or not but there is a vast difference between Birmingham and other areas of the midlands.

Maddy

Thanks for that Deb....just looked and will book mark it .
The Millennium Memory Bank on there also has people talking about their lives way back....amongst them was about a mining disaster and another polio, so a very useful oral history resource too.

Here is a link to audio recordings of accents and dialects.

http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/

The rest of the site is very interesting too.

Deb

arrrrr go with ya...do tell....

BC has a lovely soft Irish accent but you can hear the twang of southern in her voice ...untill she starts taking the mick out of a me..lol

I agree Helen.
I find it's easy to pick up bits and pieces of everything, intentionally or not!
K

I too don't have a cockney accent. Yes I was born in London and my brother had a cockney accent but I disliked it immensely so never took it up.
I rather like the Yorkshire accent myself and think it is nice that television newsreaders, weather reporters etc. are now allowed to keep their own accents rather than have to have lessons to get rid of their accent.
There is one accent I really loathe, but not going to tell you here or I might get lynched!
Sylvia xxx

My Aunt moved to London when she was 20,
people in the south think she's from
the north and we all think she has
a southern accent. Obviously she
must have bits of both and wherever
she is the locals pick up the differences
and don't notice the similarities.

Hah, don't think so, we left Herts when I was 4, went to Derbyshire. LOL

K

I bet you have a southern twang....we had family from Heartfordshire they lived in Hatfield..

Hayley,

Apparently I don't have a regional accent, nobody can ever guess where i come from!!
I was born in Hertfordshire. But the reason I have no regional accent is (I think) as a result of moving around a lot both as a kid (in the UK) and an adult, to various overseas countries...and still move every 2 to 3 years!!
Maybe this adds to my fascination with accents and dialects.

K

lol

you wont need speakers it's in written format

I have got speakers on my pooter susan ...but I could lip read..lol

Hi Hayley

There is an interesting article called

The origins of Scouse
by Paul Coslett

Where does the Scouse accent come from? Is it always changing, and why does it even differ across the city and between people? How come we can’t learn to talk proper?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2005/01/11/voices_liverpoolaccent_feature.shtml

Stotties are big flat buns about 8 inches or so in diameter. You would cut some off to use, a quarter make a generous sarnie and they's absolutely gorgeous.