WTF accent do you have?

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

And of course all Scots sound like Billy Connoly, Groundsman Willie or Shrek to Americans!!
God knows what they'd make of Rab C Nesbitt!
Me - solid London. Real central London and not what the rest of the country thinks of as 'cockney', which is really east end and not cockney at all!
However I can tell the difference between Bratford, Leeds and 'ull (lived there for 11 years). Similarly smoggy, mackem and geordie. I know my Norfolk from my Somerset but my attempts at a welsh accent morph into sub-continent asian/ geordie!!

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My girlfriends sister is married to a fella from County Durham but to us he just sounds like a Geordie. :p

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

My girlfriends sister is married to a fella from County Durham but to us he just sounds like a Geordie. :p

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Well that's a fine line and undestandable, especially as all the bairns from Drum head for Toon ana Sarrahdi (My daughter was born in Hull and moved when she was 5 to Cambrige - home of the Hooman Beans, then 2 years later we moved to Grimsby! She did her degree in Durham and now lives in Gateshead. Safe to say we don't have the same accent!)

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

Well that's a fine line and undestandable, especially as all the bairns from Drum head for Toon ana Sarrahdi

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:laugh: That is beautiful! Fair canny like!

I do prefer the general northeast accent over the Lancashire accents I'm surrounded with. Particularly the east Lancs accent which sounds very grimy with words like 'pie' pronounced as 'par', and silly words like 'barm' instead of 'sandwich'.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

:laugh: That is beautiful! Fair canny like!

I do prefer the general northeast accent over the Lancashire accents I'm surrounded with. Particularly the east Lancs accent which sounds very grimy with words like 'pie' pronounced as 'par', and silly words like 'barm' instead of 'sandwich'.

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East Lancs or the dreaded Manc - I gorra Lickle Keckle
Preston, Blackburn, Burrrrnlah triangle with the excessive rolled 'r' is quite amusing - do you not find, do you not?

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

East Lancs or the dreaded Manc - I gorra Lickle Keckle
Preston, Blackburn, Burrrrnlah triangle with the excessive rolled 'r' is quite amusing - do you not find, do you not?

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I know exactly what you mean! It is charming in it's own way. (or should that be cha-urming?) The particular area where I live though has more of a standard received pronunciation, but with a northern flavour. So grass is still grass and not 'grarss'.

Sorry grass as spelled is (if you look at the OED) pronounced with a long not a flat 'a'. As brass, bath (as the inhabitants of the place pronounce it) castle. ;)

Brass not brarss
Bath not Barth

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I'm sure Mark will support me on this one and delete your post! :devil:

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

Brass not brarss
Bath not Barth

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I'm sure Mark will support me on this one and delete your post! :devil:

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Norven Munkies!!!

definitely grass, and garage rhymes with porridge :andrea:

Jamie you don't have an accent? :eek: no way!

I guess I speak a fairly neutral kind of English, not the typical Indian accent either..I can sometimes slip into the odd accent (of the speaker!) when I am speaking with some native speaker...this usually happened when I lived in NC (USA) for a few months.

Once in Jaipur, I spoke Spanish with a Venezualan couple, and for some reason they were surprised that I was an Indian. They had me down as an Argentine :crazy: