What accent do you talk in?

[Noodley]

I never noticed I had an accent until I moved out of Fife

Ken?

 

[Noodley]

Thinkin' aboot it I suppose I do hae an accent and might speak a bit quick sometimes. But maist o' the time I'm shair fowk ken whit I'm speakin aboot.

 

[magnatom]

It's funny how you don't always notice your own accent. I know my accent is a lot softer than it used to be when I was at school (I am more west-end-ified now). However, I've had plenty of comments about my accent on my youtube videos.

 

[fossyant]

South Manc for me...not broad 'lancs' but certainly not "cheshire"....... get's worse on the bike as I gasp for air...............

 

[Fnaar]

Sarf-East Engerlund, not the posh bits. People often assume I is a Londoner, but I isn't. (But I did live there for 12 yrs) I live in the North-East now though...

 

[Jack9216]

My own accent which is a mix of Southern England, Mid-West England and Australian. I pride myself on having an almost unique accent

 

[Night Train]

Londoner. Supposed to be a Cockney but folks in Salford tell me I talk posh.

 

[Cranky]

East London/Essex accent which gets more or less pronounced depending on the situation.

Someone recently told me that my voice and ironic humour reminded them of Arthur Smith which I found surprising.

 

[Noodley]

I spent a while in Australia and 'amended' my accent to being 'understandable' Scottish accent which progressed to 'a whiny Aussie' tone....then my mate arrived from Scotland and thereafter nobody understood me as I reverted to 'norm' in his company. But they soon understood when I was playing cricket, rugby and fitba!!

 

[Jim_Noir]

West-endy Glasgow with a bit of East Coast mixed in. Worked in Edinburgh for 7 odd years and weegies seem to think I have a "puffter" twang. That said most of my friends are from the east end or south side and think I sound like a pounce anyways!

 

[snapper_37]

A man from Dudley walks into a shop.'Iiiii'd like yow to make a statchew of miy dog in gold please"
"18 carat?
"Nooooow chewin' a bone!"

 

[colly]

Originally from Fulham, then Twickenham I used to speak with a southern accent, not Cockney, not RP but just a general London accent.
Moving to Yorkshire years ago it took a while for me to get people to take in what I was saying first time round, and rather than having to keep repeat myself all the time I think unconsciously I began to enunciate properly. So much so I was surprised to hear myself described as having a posh accent.
That is far from how I speak but if talking to strangers or customers or on the phone I do try and remember not to drop my aiches etc.

'caws samtimes it donne work an i ferget '

 

[eldudino]

I grew up in Lincolnshire until the age of 18 when I moved to Scotland. After being here for 10 years I don't have a Scottish twang having spent most of my time at university with people from all over the country or in an office with people speaking RP.

I've got a middle-Lincs accent when talking to mates back in Lincolnshire but it sort of disappears when I leave East Lindsey.

Most of the time I think I have a fairly standard accent, though I still say 'grass' rather than 'graaaaaass' and 'France' rather than 'Fraaaaaaaaaaance'!

 

[swee'pea99]

My dad was a kiwi, tho' you'd never have known it, but when I went travelling in New Zealand I came across ex-pats who'd been there 60 years but still had BBC/Home Counties accents you could cut with a knife. It's an interesting thing, how people's accents evolve or don't, depending, I assume, on whether they want to assimilate into or remain separate from the new environment in which they find themselves.

 

[mangaman]

Educated in a South Buckinghamshire grammar, so completely RP.

Out of interest Velvet C, which one.

I was educated in a South Bucks Grammar too (RGS in Wycombe) so RP for me too