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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I don't believe I have a strong Yorkshire accent, do you have trouble with folks understanding yours. I believe it's more down to local dialect than a language barrier  |
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i have a mixed accent bit posh, bit farmer lol
i also put on a mockney accent a lot of the time to lol
i also pick up accents if i talk to someone for a while, which can sound like i am taking the piss but i'm not!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I still have a slight accent, despite being in the UK for over 30 years.
The accent is more pronounced after I visited my parents, as I have to talk in Cantonese with them.
I do not speak the lingo with anyone else, as I don't mix with anyone Chinese. I may converse and order in Cantonese if I know the staff etc. can speak the lingo.
When abroad on holiday, peeps can tell I am a Brit though, thanks to the advice from my EFL teacher back in 1979, who advised me to ditch the accent in order to get ahead in society etc...
Such advice was the norm in those days, when regional accents were less appreciated.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"i also pick up accents if i talk to someone for a while, which can sound like i am taking the piss but i'm not!!"
Same here 
As for me, posh scots so i've been told - lol as if! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"i also pick up accents if i talk to someone for a while, which can sound like i am taking the piss but i'm not!!
Same here
As for me, posh scots so i've been told - lol as if!"
posh glaswegian...apparently lol |
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By *eaboMan
over a year ago
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first 22 years in devon, the rest mainly in kent, and working in london. Still have my westo accent and find some people don't understand me. Who the fek taught these eastenders to speak ffs.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don't believe I have a strong Yorkshire accent, do you have trouble with folks understanding yours. I believe it's more down to local dialect than a language barrier "
lol your accent sounded pretty strong to me steve xx |
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I'm told I have a relativley posh accent. I also have hints of australian in my accent.
As far as other people go I adore the irish accent in women. The south african accent is one that makes me laugh a little... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Potteries, Mancunian, Brummy, Liverpool and to some extent Yorkshire accents all sound 'normal' to me.
I think that's down to where I grew up and who I grew up around.
When I first moved down here, everyone sounded Cockney but I can now distinguish bewteen London and Bucks/Herts/Beds accents.
I get told that I have 'no accent' until I say certain words. Exam, but, bus and Mum are apparently sure give-aways. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Potteries, Mancunian, Brummy, Liverpool and to some extent Yorkshire accents all sound 'normal' to me.
I think that's down to where I grew up and who I grew up around.
When I first moved down here, everyone sounded Cockney but I can now distinguish bewteen London and Bucks/Herts/Beds accents.
I get told that I have 'no accent' until I say certain words. Exam, but, bus and Mum are apparently sure give-aways."
We're the exact opposites, moved the other way from you. Used to have friends from Hull and Bolton and thought they spoke the same (I know!!!). Now I can tell the difference between Bolton, Wigan, Manchester etc and yes the accents from t'other side of Pennines ha ha Love surprising people when they expect a broad Bolton accent from us, a Southern accent is the last thing they expect  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"posh glaswegian...apparently lol
nothin posh about you paddy lol
keep chewing yer straw cuntry girl lol...and hike up yer dress for me! x"
oh paddy your such a turn on  |
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when meeting people from here I sometimes forget to mention where I am originally from so there is sometimes a bit of a shock when they hear me speak for the first time and then I am like " oh...oops did I forget to mention I am originally from Canada?"..lol...and my friends back home say that I now have an english accent...I don't think I do... |
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"when meeting people from here I sometimes forget to mention where I am originally from so there is sometimes a bit of a shock when they hear me speak for the first time and then I am like " oh...oops did I forget to mention I am originally from Canada?"..lol...and my friends back home say that I now have an english accent...I don't think I do..."
Ooooohhhh i absolutely love your accent dreamy ain't in it xx |
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ive been up in glasgow a good number of years and my accent has mellowed slightly .i get asked if im australian or from london lol .i have southern english accent but alittle mixed as father is from glasgow . soon as i visit family down south my acent immediatly gets broader and im talking like a farmer before you know it lol !
funnily enough i have a thing for accents hence married a scots guy .
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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I'm Scottish, born in Edinburgh, but lived all around the UK following my father's career, returning north of the border for my Secondary School education.
Left home in 1973 and after working in the Borders for a year, moved South and have been here ever since.
Yes, I now have a softer Scottish accent but when in the company of fellow Scots, I revert to a harder edged tone. Yet, remaining members of my family still up there, reckon they can't understand me as I talk "posh"; I find I cannot understand them either! 
But the number of times, people ask me which part of Dublin I come from, if I'd a fiver for each time, I'd have retired by now, mega rich |
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
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"I'm Scottish, born in Edinburgh, but lived all around the UK following my father's career, returning north of the border for my Secondary School education.
Left home in 1973 and after working in the Borders for a year, moved South and have been here ever since.
Yes, I now have a softer Scottish accent but when in the company of fellow Scots, I revert to a harder edged tone. Yet, remaining members of my family still up there, reckon they can't understand me as I talk "posh"; I find I cannot understand them either!
But the number of times, people ask me which part of Dublin I come from, if I'd a fiver for each time, I'd have retired by now, mega rich "
There is soemthing quite irresistable about a soft Scottish accent...
I have been told I sound somewhere between Welsh and Brum... well I used to work in Wales some years back... and the Brum one has been acquired through a different activity...;-) |
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