Your accent

[cushtybert]

I moved around a lot in my 20’s and overseas for a few years, I’ve lost my accent. Think I sound like a blend of places

 

[JCAH2013]

I am from Manchester but have always made a big effort to ensure I didn’t end up With the typical manc accent. People assume I’m from Oldham rather than Manchester which is ok. I don’t mind the Manc accent I grew up in a place it is prominent and where we live now is 10 mins from the city centre and most people do have the typical accent. I’ve just always been very aware that I don’t want to sound like that.

Duck ayup and orate here too

My BIL is from stoke and I love his accent!

 

[Bogwoppit]

I don’t hate my accent but a lot of people point it out to me. I’m from Stoke and so people pick up on the little ways I say things like look and book. We also say things like duck, shug, conna and ayup orate! Which can be like a different language! I don’t hate my accent but I think it sounds kind of funny at times. But I love it at work when I hear another Stokie- makes me feel comfy and at home. If I could chose an accent to have it would probably be Southern Ireland or some sort of Italian accent I think. I wouldn’t chose Stokie!!

A fellow Stokie here too

 

[petitspois]

I’m from Wales and have what I’d like to think is a mild accent. It gets proper Welsh when I’m talking to someone from the Valleys though.

 

[Tublet83]

Geordie, and married to a Yorkshire man. My children have a weird hybrid

 

[Hello Kitty]

I'm from South London - not posh but not common either. I love an Irish or an Australian accent

 

[Warrend]

I've lived in three different countries so I have traces of different accents now. I've been told that I sound like a Dutch person who speaks English with a slight american accent. I don't have to listen to myself so I don't really care.

 

[Be More Pacific]

whats conna?

Can't.

 

[coconochanel]

I'm just plain standard English, however I'm very well spoken and can easily be mistaken for a posh twat.

I love posh twats.

 

[Giddyasaschoolgirl]

Derbyshire man here- bizarrely quite a few people comment on how they like my accent! It's not really strong, although years of being in professional work meetings and doing a lot of presenting tend to make me speak clearer and slower.
My family (and my home) are all in the wilds of the county- the minute I go back I go straight back to full on Derbyshire accent- especially using "t' " to describe everything (int' it, going up town where t'shop is, she did that, din't she etc)

Proud of my accent!

 

[HelloStereo]

Northern Ireland accent (not a city specific one, fairly generic) - I don't like it at all. I think our accents tend to be quite harsh sounding. I'd love a slightly more southern Irish sounding one.

I love the Northern Irish accent. I used to live there for a bit and now whenever I hear anyone with that accent it reminds me of those days!

I am from Cambridge originally. I never really thought I had an accent but I suppose to anyone else I do. I think I sound like a less posh version of a typical newsreader.

 

[Doc]

I like mine, it’s a Yorkshire hybrid (as there’s quite a range). Although I always get taken aback when people from other counties mention it as I don’t think it’s strong in my head

Edit: I have family from county Sligo, and when I went over to visit years ago, locals thought I was a Geordie

 

[F the dust.]

A friend of mine lives in Workington, and to be honest I can barely understand her once she's in full flow!

Needed explanations for words like "Lal", "jam eater", "hesta" and "scrattin" among many others!

Literally near me And I speak like that

 

[Annie101]

Absolutely love a scouse accent! Sounds so friendly and warm to me.

I've lived in the UK for almost a decade now, but think that I still have a very strong South African accent, although I often am mistaken for being from Australia or NZ. Funnily enough, when I do go back to SA on holiday, everyone thinks I'm a tourist.

where in Port Elizabeth? I grew up there, and moved to Johannesburg

 

[Mulholland Drive]

Literally near me And I speak like that

Should I feel sorry for you?

My friend also mentions something called "Uppies and Downies", which I think is some kind of ball game played between people from Workington and Whitehaven (great rivals apparently). She loves to get involved as there's barely any rules, but looks quite chaotic, lol

 

[Titntat]

Duck ayup and orate here too

Same here My daughters just turned 6 and everythings "rate good/nice"

 

[TheScarletgirl]

I’m from the Black Country, and where I am we tend to have a more thicker Black Country accent.

As a note, just to get it out there straight away, our accent is not to be likened or confused with a Brummie accent. We live no where near Birmingham and B’ham is not part of the Black Country. The easiest way to offend any of us? Call us Brummies

We have our own language here. Can’t is replaced with Cor. Didn’t is replaced with Day. Been is replaced with Bin. Not is replaced with Ay.
So:
“I cor believe my husband day do the washing up tonight. I’ve bin at work all day, I ay having it”

I’d say at least 80% of words are replaced with a Black Country variant of some sort. It’s worth looking up for a laugh (or loff in our case)

We have friends from the posh parts of Lincolnshire, and we do try speak properly while we are with them. Once they get a few beers down us, it’s down hill from there

I was going to mention this . The accents and even the way words are pronounced are different I always hear brummies say bath in the southern way and my black country friends pronounce things more like a northerner and e.g bAth not barrrth .

 

[Penelope Strawberry]

I'm from Bloemfontein, and have been living in England on and off for the last 10 years or so, and people here still can't understand my (much softened) Afrikaans accent. And yet when I head back to SA friends and family think I've become a tourist too with my funny "English" accent

My husband is also South African (we're both from PE) but has been in the UK for 16 years and has pretty much lost his SA accent. Someone once asked us why my husband doesn't have an accent, but I sound so "severe".

 

[Trixabellee9393]

Well I’m a full on brummy and hate it! It’s weird u forget you yourself have a accent and it’s not just people in other places I would rather be Irish or scottish

 

[nothinonyou]

I have a beautiful country Irish accent (not Dublin yuck)