Accents

[Beauhead]

I'm from Canada but watch almost 80% of things from the UK.
I need a crash course please.
I've noticed that people are extremely picky when it comes to accents. They don't like certain ones and if you sound like you're from the north it's a bad thing and it's looked down upon...
Posh ones (whatever that may be) is good but then people think they're better than everyone else.
There are so many accents for such a small area and it seems like it's the first thing people judge you on.

 

[I’mThankyou_]

I'm from Canada but watch almost 80% of things from the UK.
I need a crash course please.
I've noticed that people are extremely picky when it comes to accents. They don't like certain ones and if you sound like you're from the north it's a bad thing and it's looked down upon...
Posh ones (whatever that may be) is good but then people think they're better than everyone else.
There are so many accents for such a small area and it seems like it's the first thing people judge you on.

Those with Northern accents tend to be happier people

 

[Beauhead]

Those with Northern accents tend to be happier people

I can imagine!!.....but I don't get why I see the discrimination all the time.
I watch Naked Attraction and they're always put off by the northern accents.
I watch Escape to the Country and NO ONE ever wants to live up north....

What is going up there???? lololol

 

[I’mThankyou_]

I can imagine!!.....but I don't get why I see the discrimination all the time.
I watch Naked Attraction and they're always put off by the northern accents.
I watch Escape to the Country and NO ONE ever wants to live up north....

What is going up there???? lololol

It depends where in the North you come from tbh. There's a lot of stereotypes attached to the likes of a scouse accent or a Mancunian or Geordie accent.

 

[Snippysnips]

Am central Scotland an not a huge fan of my accent, but I CANNOT stand the Glasgow accent an my brothers wife is that, plus they live there now so my neice is getting that weigie tang, am tempted to put her to voice coach's to get it out of her I also hate the scouser accent, it sounds so lazy to me, way up north I don't mind the accents but soon as they talk fast am totally lost with them, same with Aberdeen, I can't keep up with that but overall the accents themselves are OK, I do love the Canadian accent an Australian one's, Jamaican as well, I grew up going to Blackpool a ton so I don't hear that accent as much as others do so I don't mind that one either

It's crazy how small areas can have a ton of different accents, my dad an his brother have two totally different ones even though both grew up together, but my uncle stayed in his home town an my dad moved to where we are now an it changed them lol

 

[Ensay]

I can imagine!!.....but I don't get why I see the discrimination all the time.
I watch Naked Attraction and they're always put off by the northern accents.
I watch Escape to the Country and NO ONE ever wants to live up north....

What is going up there???? lololol

I'm pretty sure I've seen some episodes of Escape to the Country in Yorkshire and Cumbria, but more do tend to be down south you're right.

Some people are funny about accents, but I think most don't care.

 

[thetemptationisreal]

I like my accent; it's not distinctive. Unlike our neighbours in the west midlands.

 

[BigBrenda]

I’m from south London so my accent is common as muck but I love scouse accents best accent going I think.

 

[mcfeez]

I'm from NI and had to travel to England and Scotland a fair bit a few years ago for work; I always got told by my, mostly Scottish, coworkers that Northern Irish accents sound "overly aggressive" and then they followed it up with an Ian Paisley impression haha .

Accents in the UK are wild. There are less than 2 million people in Northern Ireland and we still have quite a range of accents.

 

[Em_]

I'm from Canada but watch almost 80% of things from the UK.
I need a crash course please.
I've noticed that people are extremely picky when it comes to accents. They don't like certain ones and if you sound like you're from the north it's a bad thing and it's looked down upon...
Posh ones (whatever that may be) is good but then people think they're better than everyone else.
There are so many accents for such a small area and it seems like it's the first thing people judge you on.

Northern accents are the best accents in the country.
I think the worst accent is cockney and I hate posh accents and not keen on a Scouse accent.
I think one of the best accents in England has to be a Geordie accent. I also love the Valley accent in Wales.

 

[Tide'sout]

I love all our accents in the UK.

 

[Lizzie Mintdrop]

I'm from Salford, I really don't like the manc accent, especially not north Manc, it's too nasal. My favorite accent is Birkenhead scouse, it's not as harsh as a full on scouse accent, it's a bit more musical, which I think is probably the Welsh influence. I like a full on scouse accent too. I like to hear a Lancashire accent too. Not keen on cockney, brummie or west country. What I love about accents is how they change. There's a road, near the border between Salford and Bolton and the change in accent is massive, it goes from harsh, nasal Salford to deep, rolling Bolton, think Shaun Ryder to Peter Kay, I think it's amazing

 

[lastdis]

I’m a manc, I don’t really like my accent but wherever I go in the uk people go ohhh Manchester and automatically think I’m really friendly . Like above I do love a bit of scouse accent but not too scouse .

 

[Kitt]

Birmingham’s not in the north and the accent is generally accepted as the worst in the U.K.

 

[Melian]

Birmingham’s not in the north and the accent is generally accepted as the worst in the U.K.

A friend has a Birmingham accent and it sounds horrible.

 

[Meangirl815]

I'm a geordie and very proud of it

 

[BattleAxing]

I like Scouse and certain non nasally Manc accents. I do adore an Irish accent. Not so much N Irish though.

I am not keen on Cockney, Geordie or Welsh.

 

[sasuss]

I'm a Manc lol but my accent is pretty neutral, I put it down to the fact that we come from a bilingual household and are from one of the "posher" ends of Manchester. My 3 kids are Glaswegian however only my son has a slight Scottish accent again maybe because they're educated in the posher end of Glasgow - (it was a lot stronger when we lived in the more central part of Glasgow) add to the fact they spent a lot of their formative years in Manchester as well as the fact they learnt to speak from me. Again our own household is bilingual as English is not my husband's first language pretty sure that makes a difference..??

I'm not being a snob lol

 

[Eirawen]

Birmingham’s not in the north and the accent is generally accepted as the worst in the U.K.

I can't stand it or the Wolverhampton /Walsall accent they all sound thick. Can you imagine seeing a Dr with a Brummie accent? He would have to pay for elocution lessons. A lot of people from that area come and live in Wales and you can hear them braying all over the place.

 

[Em_]

I'm a Manc lol but my accent is pretty neutral, I put it down to the fact that we come from a bilingual household and are from one of the "posher" ends of Manchester. My 3 kids are Glaswegian however only my son has a slight Scottish accent again maybe because they're educated in the posher end of Glasgow - (it was a lot stronger when we lived in the more central part of Glasgow) add to the fact they spent a lot of their formative years in Manchester as well as the fact they learnt to speak from me. Again our own household is bilingual as English is not my husband's first language pretty sure that makes a difference..??

I'm not being a snob lol

I'm aanc, but I've had people on Manchester ask where I'm from, but I don't have a strong accent, plus I'm from South Manchester and we don't have the North/Salford accent. I also made an effort to pronounce the t sound in words. I live in Cheshire now and my daughter does say the odd manc word and has a slight twinge if Manc due to me, but that's better than the alternative.
I do think the Geordie accent is the best accent in the country.