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I have a wee bit of a West/Glaswegian twang but not proper Glasgow.
I’ve grew up on the Wirral and lived there until 6 months ago when I moved to Nottingham. I can’t really hear my accent but I get told I sound like “a posh scouser” 
I have a soft south welsh accent.. I’ve had lots of people here tell me I sound English, but I’m sure if I went to England they would tell me I sound like Nessa 
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!
I do to . I live in the midlands and there are so many accents . I hear such a bizarre range from to thick black country to Derby and I can hear a lot of northern influence the closer you get to Cheshire .
I love my accent. I love being scouse. I hate getting asked to say chicken. Also people say 'LiverPEWL' at me a lot.
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 .
or Bowton as we like to pronounce it Mine is horrendous. Spent half my life in one place, then another) Born up north (Lancashire/yorkshire) border then moved down to near Birmingham. So weird brummie/northern hybrid. And I hate the brummie element. Ironically my dad is naturally posh, as he grew up in Kensington and my mother used to put on a posh accent, now genuinely speaks well but puts on her northern accent with certain people. Bizarre!
South Australian... so 'posh' Australian. I say 'vahse' instead of 'vayse' and 'pool' instead of 'pewl'. I do have certain twangs though, that my English SO has always teased me about. I denied it, but now my two year old has started talking a lot more, he's picked up on my accent when saying 'no'... which practically makes it a three syllable word haha.
Geordie, and married to a Yorkshire man. My children have a weird hybrid 
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!
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!
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.
I have a Glaswegian accent although maybe more posh than someone from the east end of glasgow. I love it though 
Lincolnshire here. People round here say we don’t have an accent as such but there is a definite Lincolnshire twang. I think we drag our words out a bit. Or maybe could be where I live.
Accents fascinate me! 30 minute drive away is a completely different accent!
Accents fascinate me! 30 minute drive away is a completely different accent!
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Not sure what a "platonic" English accent is but as far as I'm aware (I studied Linguistics) there's no such thing as "modern" Received Pronunciation - RP has a defined set of rules and doesn't deviate from these, so if your accent *does* differ from them in any way, it's something different; probably a Southern English accent like Estuary English that sounds 'posher' and is less broad than something like Cockney (and has more in common with RP).
Subconsciously altering your speech to sound more/less eloquent depending on the audience is something most people do, and has a name that completely escapes me now - it's similar to code-switching, which is switching between two dialects or languages (including in black communities, where people often switch between AAVE and Standard English).
Does anyone hear watch Erik Singer on YouTube? Absolutely love his videos.
My accent is yorkshire and I love my accent; if I’m around my parents more I’m really yorkshire. However I didn’t realise how northern gobshite loud I am until I am around my husband and his family. They are slightly brummy and it’s frankly disgusting. Hate it
My accent is yorkshire and I love my accent; if I’m around my parents more I’m really yorkshire. However I didn’t realise how northern gobshite loud I am until I am around my husband and his family. They are slightly brummy and it’s frankly disgusting. Hate it