Accents

[whisperchat]

I'm London and my boyfriend is Irish. I've been with him so long now he doesn't even sound Irish to me anymore lol.

 

[thetemptationisreal]

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

 

[Ensay]

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 find this interesting because my niece is being raised bilingually. She was a bit slower to speak (which is apparently normal for bilingual children) and when she started to speak she wouldn't always talk in English, so I couldn't always understand her.

However, she's 3 now and only seems to speak English, even though she can understand everything her mum says (her mum's first language isn't English). I wondered if it was because she's cottoned onto the fact that everyone other than her mum only understands her when she speaks English.

Do you find your children speak both languages - or do they tend to favour English more?

 

[GamerLlama87]

I'm Welsh and can't friggin stand my own accent I live in the valleys area of South Wales and I just don't understand why we talk at such a high pitch but I can't get myself out of it either

 

[Elles20]

People say I sound cockney 🥲🥲🥲

 

[yepyep]

Have a black country accent, always hear it about it being thick sounding and I always get called a Brummie.

 

[BattleAxing]

I am not keen on the deep South West “farmer” accents either. Bristol has hints of it and it isn’t too bad - I actually know a Bristolian lady who spent a decade or more living in Manchester. She is also Jamaican and has a really unique accent where you can hear influences of all 3 and it’s actually really gorgeous to listen to.

 

[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

 

[Lizzie Mintdrop]

I'm not sure if this is related, but how do you pronounce 'chimney'? I'm really interested to know how fellow Mancs pronounce it. I pronounce it 'chimley' and my husband who is from Cheshire makes fun of me and was shocked that I didn't know it was pronounced 'chimney'. He asked his work mates who are all Scousers and they pronounce it 'chimney', they said it was a cockney thing to pronounce it 'chimley'. I wondered if it was a Manc thing or if it's just me.

I'm from Salford but live in North Manchester, I don't know anyone who pronounces it chimley

 

[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.