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Do You Have An Accent??

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    katralla wrote: »
    I'm confused coz one and won are pronounced differently, surely?

    I mean 'won' like the first sound of 'wok' but with an n instead of a k. Not as in won a prize. Although I'd pronounce that 'wun' too ;)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Nikki* wrote: »
    I have NO idea. I got told at college the other day I have a Stafford accent, but that means absolutely nowt to any of you lot I'm sure. :)

    Since working in my last job I have realised very quickly what a stafford accent is!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Got a proper Yorkshire accent....
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ive got an Aberdonian accent.

    Think scotland, but not like Glasgow or Edinburgh accents, its a bit harsher. Our vowels are shorter, and a lot of people dont pronounce their T's so 'butter' becomes 'bu-ur'. Not sure if thats just an Aberdonian thing ot not tho?
    We sound awfull on telly. If anyones ever seen the programme trawlermen, thats what I sound like, but not quite as broad, and female lol. Haha the BBC decided to give the show subtitles :d guess were not very easy to understand.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    This is an old thread!

    My dad claims I don't. However, I've been told by two people in the last year that my "accent" is hard to understand - one of them was from Glasgow and the other was from Liverpool.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Dixierebels wrote: »
    Ive got an Aberdonian accent.

    Think scotland, but not like Glasgow or Edinburgh accents, its a bit harsher. Our vowels are shorter, and a lot of people dont pronounce their T's so 'butter' becomes 'bu-ur'. Not sure if thats just an Aberdonian thing ot not tho?
    We sound awfull on telly. If anyones ever seen the programme trawlermen, thats what I sound like, but not quite as broad, and female lol. Haha the BBC decided to give the show subtitles :d guess were not very easy to understand.

    What did you say?? LOL
    Don't worry about the bu-er, it's similar down here, although they don't have to put subtitles on Emmerdale Farm, haha..
    I think accents are great, except a certain one that if I mentioned it would probably start another WAR OF THE ROSES, lol... That's a big hint by the way..:chin:
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    Melian wrote: »
    My dad claims I don't.
    That would be impossible, unless you were mute.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i have three. Norfolk, southern and Brummie.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I have a scouse - Liverpool - accent.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    A kiwi accent with a slight hint of Scot - so often get asked if I'm from down south (I believe a lot of Scots migrated to South Island (prob cos it reminded them of home what with the coldness hawhawhaw ...) when they first came to NZ) and I have to reply with "*sigh* no ... my mum's Scottish and I've picked up that side of the family's accent"

    And whenever I say something with an R in the middle, like work (werrk), my mate gets me to repeat it to mock me and I don't click on :(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    A mix of scouse and manc...not sure if that's a good thing though :chin:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Pretty sure it's not... Lol
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I dont think i have one :no:

    If i did i think a southern irish one would be good
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I have a poshish mixed with south london accent - which ends up sounding a bit australian but its not - for some reason this means i'm really hard to be understood by foreign people but not by english ones. Its a fairly common accent in the area where i grew up - put me next to a proper south london person and I sound really posh put me next to a posh person and i sound really sarrf london - humm
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Wyetry wrote: »
    I have a poshish mixed with south london accent - which ends up sounding a bit australian but its not - for some reason this means i'm really hard to be understood by foreign people but not by english ones. Its a fairly common accent in the area where i grew up - put me next to a proper south london person and I sound really posh put me next to a posh person and i sound really sarrf london - humm

    What does a "posh accent" sound like?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Melian wrote: »
    What does a "posh accent" sound like?

    I think people confuse posh with some Southern accents. Lots of grarrrrss and barrrrth and stuff.

    I think my accent's just a plain south one, but I know I sometimes put more Welshy inflections on things, especially if I spend a lot of time with my granny. When I was a kid I used to have a Devon farmer type accent, but I think I used to put that on quite a lot to piss my mum off.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Because i am in the middle of the country, people up North have asked if i am a londoner and when i have been more south people say i sound like a farmer lol x
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    grace wrote: »
    When I was a kid I used to have a Devon farmer type accent, but I think I used to put that on quite a lot to piss my mum off.

    An uncle of mine has sounds like a farmer.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Melian wrote: »
    What does a "posh accent" sound like?

    Margot Leadbetter (I love her!)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well when I have my telephone voice on people ask if i'm American, which i find hugely offensive, but my accent is pretty much an Edinburgh accent, maybe slightly posh, but i'm like Wyetry in that put me next to the proper posh people and I sound well common, but next to rougher Edinburgh accents I sound super posh
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    South Wales accent. A lot of my English mates say I sound like Rhod Gilbert.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    still the same
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I've been in Stafford for 11 years, so my accent is fairly neutral. If anything, slightly Black Country, but nothing anywhere near as strong as Brummie or Dudley.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Some would call mine posh. I would call it correct.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i speak like the ones off hollyoaks, because im from northern ireland and so are they. :blush: its really awful, but i like it :d
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