What accent do you talk in?

[Dayvo]

For formal occasions I do the ´proper´ Essex.

For informal, the lazy Essex is more prominent.

When abroad (as I have been most of my adult life) I try and speak clearly and simply, although I´ve been mistaken for being Australian many times, even by Aussies!

 

[ColinJ]

You'd be able to tell that I come from England, but I don't think you'd know where I was raised (Coventry, West Midlands) or where I'm living now (Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire) by listening to me.

My friends in the midlands think that I've developed a very slight Yorkshire accent but I don't think that's likely because most of the people that I speak to up here aren't from Yorkshire either.

 

[HLaB]

Fifer speak here.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Me?

Very reminiscent of Brian Glover in, "An American Werewolf In london"


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_2likGlok
- About 2:30 in

 

[andrew-the-tortoise]

Rotherham accent - think of Sheffield but with less 'dee & daas'.

 

[TVC]

Educated in a South Buckinghamshire grammar, so completely RP.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I talk in what I assume to be a totally neutral, lower middleclass, southern English accent. It's only when I went on-site to a customer in America, asked to see a Mr Potter on reception and they didn't understand the glottal stop that I realised I was a guttersnipe. Another time I went to site in Canada and one of the engineers started talking in a "done me up like a kipper" accent to me. At the time I wondered why he was talking like that.

 

[domd1979]

Birmingham-ish. Thankfully I aren't going Stokey just yet.

 

[Kirstie]

Depends who I'm with.
I'm from Ramsbottom, Lancs, and so slip into that when I'm back home.
I then lived in Brum for 15 years and so when with my brummie friends/when in Brum for some reason I get a brummie twang.
Now i'm in the east midlands, and I can't get the hang of how they talk around here, so I just sound like I'm vaguely northern and vaguely brummie.

There's a chance I'll be moving to Scotland in a couple of years - now i can't WAIT to get a scots accent...

 

[Corvette chic]

Pure woolly back Lanky NOT Accringtonian

I lived in Brighton/London for a number of years they couldn't understand a word Nope I never lost my accent, I modified it a bit but as soon as I can back north to see me mam week after it were back to square one.

Hasti bin ont coyts?

 

[Mortiroloboy]

Pure as the driven Black Country.

Yam yam

 

[Kovu]

Yorkshire.

Though I can do an american accent as if they have lived in the Uk for ages.

 

[snapper_37]

Yam yam

Do I get the 'YAM YAM' award since it has now been brought up twice.

 

[Mortiroloboy]

Do I get the 'YAM YAM' award since it has now been brought up twice.

I didn't read ALL the posts...That'll learn me

 

[Bromptonaut]

Industrial West Riding, adapted to flat vowels in London but much stronger in God's own acres.