A fellow Stokie here too
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I’m from the north west and due to my thyroid have a very deep voice which I hate,
don’t forget the voice you hear when you speak isn’t the voice other people hear
don’t forget the voice you hear when you speak isn’t the voice other people hear
Like others on this thread, I'm bloody fascinated by accents. My own is definitely native to my home place, but it's not particularly strong. I feel entirely neutral about it 
however, I do tend to code-switch a LOT. People who know me a long time can find it a bit odd if they hear me in code-switching mode, as if I'm deliberately altering my accent, but I genuinely can't help it. I've moved around a lot in the last 12 -15 years which is a big part of it, I think. Trying to fit in places.
however, I do tend to code-switch a LOT. People who know me a long time can find it a bit odd if they hear me in code-switching mode, as if I'm deliberately altering my accent, but I genuinely can't help it. I've moved around a lot in the last 12 -15 years which is a big part of it, I think. Trying to fit in places.
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
Edit: I have family from county Sligo, and when I went over to visit years ago, locals thought I was a Geordie
Apparently I can change my accent depending on who I am talking too. ( Husband or my own family) as they are not all from the same country and I currently live in the same country as my husband. The best bit is I don't even know I am doing it and apparently can change it instantly. 
I have a strong accent and find those automated phone services haven't a clue what I'm saying I do hate it and can't listen to anyone on telly with it 
I do hate it and can't listen to anyone on telly with it
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I do that too with friends i can sound like them and not realise it i am lucky they like me to put up with it phewApparently I can change my accent depending on who I am talking too. ( Husband or my own family) as they are not all from the same country and I currently live in the same country as my husband. The best bit is I don't even know I am doing it and apparently can change it instantly.
I don't think have one unless i say the word writing and can then hear the welsh in that and to everyone i do have an accent but can never hear it myself
It is very unique and yes, it is like a different language at times. I can spot a Stoke accent a mile off. I lived there for a few years and, to my ear, it's like a combination of the Liverpool, Birmingham and Nottingham accents with words from the Potteries dialect thrown in. Truth be told, I found it really bleeping bizarre when I first moved there and, despite my best efforts, I did pick it up a little and I can still hear it now on certain words - for example, when I say 'salad', it comes out more like "salid". But I made some amazing Stokie friends and I don't regret living there at all. The people are what make Stoke on Trent
My accent is very transient and I tend to end up picking up a little bit of the accent from wherever I live although it's still predominantly a North West accent (where I'm from orginally) that gets stronger when I see my family according to my partner. I live in the South now.
I think I'm pretty good with guessing regional accents from years of speaking to people on the phone and watching The Jeremy Kyle Show
(actually not a joke) My partner has lived in several places and yet you wouldn't be able to guess any of them at all. He says it's a "good BBC accent" - I would just say "posh" 
I am from the Highlands and people can never tell where I am from... I often get Canada. I am always told too that I am the "least Scottish sounding Scottish person." Lol. I have since moved overseas and when I speak on the phone to my mum, I can totally hear her accent, and my accent doesn't sound like it. Quite funny.
I’m Geordie. Wouldn’t change it.
No I don't. My accent is awful.
I have lived in the North for a little less than a decade from London and my accent was originally the softer, North of the river variant of the accent you found with many city youth. My childrens accents "went" within the first year, my oldest sounded somewhat close to Brummy for a short while (not completely, but more the ends of each sentence, weird as it is half way in between) before he sounded Northern all together. However in the past couple of years, I have adopted a slight northern pitch and twang that I can sometimes hear myself falling into but have to also put effort into grabbing my accent back, with people from back home saying I sound a bit like a Northerner and I have been asked up here if I am from the Midlands alot.
My sister lived up here for roughly the same amount of time but she didn't pick up any form of accent. She didn't socialise as much and her partner was from a more affluent area having a posh accent (more accentless than posh tbh). However I have lived with Northerners up here, been more integrated into the community, have children who go to local schools, have local friends. My partner having more an accent being from a less affluent area. I am interested in hearing what accent our son picks up before he goes to school.
I have lived in the North for a little less than a decade from London and my accent was originally the softer, North of the river variant of the accent you found with many city youth. My childrens accents "went" within the first year, my oldest sounded somewhat close to Brummy for a short while (not completely, but more the ends of each sentence, weird as it is half way in between) before he sounded Northern all together. However in the past couple of years, I have adopted a slight northern pitch and twang that I can sometimes hear myself falling into but have to also put effort into grabbing my accent back, with people from back home saying I sound a bit like a Northerner and I have been asked up here if I am from the Midlands alot.
My sister lived up here for roughly the same amount of time but she didn't pick up any form of accent. She didn't socialise as much and her partner was from a more affluent area having a posh accent (more accentless than posh tbh). However I have lived with Northerners up here, been more integrated into the community, have children who go to local schools, have local friends. My partner having more an accent being from a less affluent area. I am interested in hearing what accent our son picks up before he goes to school.
Doesn't platonic mean when you love someone without romantic feelings?? I don't get it either.
South East London but I don't sound like a chav or roadman. I just sound normal. People at my crappy secondary school used to say I was posh and rich because I was raised properly and speak properly
. Because of course people who have tit tonnes of money put their kids into the "Ghetto" for education. bleeping ridiculous.I don't mind my accent other than that. And if people argue with me I'm still a fiesty witch so
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Yes it does. Can't work out what she meant.
Generic?
Ah....could be.
I LOVE accents and embarrassingly echo them really quickly which when I lived surrounded by N Irish and Scottish people was a struggle. I'm sad that I don't have my local regional accent and just have a very neutral RP accent that sounds very English (people from overseas gush over my accent in my videos) but I would like an interesting accent.
I have a very broad Barnsley accent. I wouldn’t change it for anything. Brummie, Barnsley and Scottish accents are my favourites.
I would hate to have the typical yummy mummy accent - ie MOD. Worst accent going.
I would hate to have the typical yummy mummy accent - ie MOD. Worst accent going.
The worst accent for me, is anyone pretending to speak posh because they think it makes them sound intelligent. It just makes them sound like a numpty struggling with vowel pronunciations. I really like the Liverpool accent, it always sounds so melodic and cheery.