Your accent

[WilmaHun]

I'm from a very small town in Eastern Suffolk and I hate my accent! Whenever I hear somebody on the TV who is from Suffolk I cringe and hope my accent isn't that broad!

I used to work for a very large UK based holiday firm in the call centre and one thing I used to absolutely hate would be when I was talking to a customer and they'd say "you sound like a farmer".

 

[Chickenandgravy]

I have a Glaswegian accent although maybe more posh than someone from the east end of glasgow. I love it though

 

[SkinnyTurkeyDinosaur]

I wish I had a posh English accent but I sound like a chav

 

[Readread]

Central Scotland (Edinburgh) but very very neutral as I've not lived in Scotland in over 9 years, mixed with a tiny wee bit of Cork Irish (from husband).

 

[Callmemaybe]

I'm from Yorkshire and I've always thought we dont have an accent if that makes sense lol it just seems very plain. Does everyone this that about their own?

 

[Ems55]

Born and grew up in NI but lived in Scotland since I moved over for uni at 18 (now in my 30s) so apparently my accent is a bit of a hybrid. I think I still sound firmly Northern Irish, but my family in NI think I sound Scottish now!

 

[MilkAndTwoSugars]

My accent is Northumbrian, people tend to think it's geordie, except for other geordies . I quite like it . We have our own dialect too.

Hi Kim, I have a Berwick accent, is that what your referring to? Xx

 

[Renegadedancer]

I am from West London originally, but I haven’t lived there for a few years. My accent hadn’t changed at all, I don’t think!

 

[seaborgium]

I'm an AngloScot (dad was from Lancashire, mum from Dumfries), I've spent time in both and Italy, but grew up in a posh part of South Edinburgh (born in London). I often get asked where I'm from as don't sound local, and my dad always called me the English one! I'd still say it's like my link, but with bits of Leicestershire and Lancashire thrown in at times (I don't speak much Scots).

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/edinburgh-morningside-accent-sir-malcolm-schooldays - how people sound I grew up around and family friends spoke, which my mum adopted. BTW if you like accents it's got some good ones in the collection.

 

[CarrieW24]

I never knew I had an accent until I went overseas. I think that's most people...

I don't want to say where I'm from but I love my accent. It's one area in my life that's never given me a low self esteem.

...tooting my own horn... *toot! *toot!... Sorry

 

[Lovegin]

I lived in N.I after I got married and I really struggled with the accent and was forever asking people to repeat themselves (this was the north of N.ireland so hardly a strong accent)

My son was born in N.I and lived there until he was 6 but doesn’t have an Irish or my local accent

 

[Mag83]

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'm from N.I and anytime I’m with my mum and we hear someone from Southern Ireland talking on tv or out and about, every time without fail she will say they’re just better speakers than we are she claims their accent means their conversations sound more polite and eloquent to us in the North! I don’t tend to disagree with her but for the most part the people she’s commenting on are usually on TV because they’re great speakers and it’s their job to talk clearly so I find it quite funny.

I’m from a pretty rural area of NI and lived in London for years, I definitely think over the years I toned my accent down a lot while there, mostly I don’t talk as fast as I did because I’d have to repeat everything I said when I first moved. I now realise we do rush what we’re saying where I’m from. I went to “speech and drama” until I was 16 so I’ve always been good with pronounciation and not really using words like ‘aye’ and ‘wee’ that we’re famous for here.

 

[TheNiceBeardMan]

I like my accent. I was brought up in Wolverhampton until 13, then lived in Scotland for five years and then moved down to Lancashire and lived here since. I've always tried to adapt the way I speak to where I live and ended up with quite a well spoken accent by accident lol. But in my head I think I sound proper Lancashire I have three children and they have a similar well spoken accent too which is weird as they have only ever lived in Lancashire

 

[Chunkeylaydee]

I have a Scottish accent. Not a west coast but East Coast but not posh.
I love a geordie accent and an Irish one.

 

[Miss Demeanour]

I love accents. I find the Newport (Wales) accent and some of the Lancashire / Greater Manchester accents (specifically Wigan, Burnley, Bolton) really sexy.

I used to have a Scouse accent, but I lost it when we moved to Milton Keynes when I was 6 (I'm now 43).

Milton Keynes is a fairly non-descript accent, it's like a slightly well-spoken version of cockney. All locals pronounce Milton Keynes as "Mill-UN Keens", we drop our letter T a lot.

Some MK folk that have been here since the city was founded, have a Northampton twang to their accent, which is a touch of the "oo-arrr" country bumpkins to it.

I don't mind my accent. I work in broadcasting part-time and I tend to enunciate a bit more on the radio, but not too much as it wouldn't sound natural.

I'm from Hull and we have our very own unique breed of a Yorkshire accent which is just... something else.
I don't think my accent is very strong, and other people comment that I do have the accent but I don't sound as bad as others.
You really know a Hull accent when they pronounce "Phone" as "Fern" and we are notorious for saying "Nerr" instead of "No"
I got picked on at school for saying Lunch instead of Dinner so people thought I was posh
My partner is from Kent so his accent sticks out like a sore thumb here, his accent is not dissimilar to Essex, but I think it's a bit more mellow.
On the other end of the scale I had a friend who lived just outside of Hull her whole life, both parents were Scottish but I have no idea what to class her accent as at all. It's slightly posh, but there is no Hull or Scottish twang. I wouldn't even call it a Yorkshire accent. It's baffling.

I've a friend who's from 'ull. I adore her accent.

She's been living down here for a number of years and still her daughter has to translate for her to other people as her accent is so strong. I understand her word perfect, but some of the words sound so different, even more so to non-native English speakers.

 

[Penelope Strawberry]

I love a SA accent!! I often mistaken it for Kiwi

Haha! I'm always surprised when someone actually likes my accent, but I think most people feel that way!

 

[Readread]

I’ve got a fairly neutral central Scotland accent. However I’ve lived in Dubai for 7+ years with my husband who is from Cork in Ireland so I would probably say it’s a lot more neutral than my family and friends.

I do gain it back and have more of a twang when I’m back home. My husbands accent is as strong as it was when he left Ireland and gets stronger when in Ireland or around other Irish people. Sometimes I struggle to understand what he’s saying and we’ve been together for years

 

[shirleymaclaine1]

Not sure if I agree with him, but a taxi driver in New York back in the early 2000s told me I sounded like Ann Widdecombe (she was being interviewed on the radio during our journey) and that my voice sounded like violins!!

 

[BustySinclair]

I’m another generic English accent - from the western Home Counties, just very standard. I don’t think I have one at all

 

[Mulholland Drive]

My Grandmother is from South Africa. Lived in London for many many years but still has quite an accent. We always thought it funny to get her to say “Ice cream”

I love my Afrikaans accent, especially when conversing to fellow South Africans; but I sound totally weird when speaking English to my English friends. The really odd thing is that even though I can still speak Afrikaans I have little or no idea how to read/write it - far too difficult.