General Chat

I love to hear all different accents and dialects .I shall now go to bed and probably dream in a Scottish accent lol.Night Nightx

I didn't used to think I had an accent - in fact, when I went to school, a friend in my class used to say I "talked posh" because she used far more of a Lancashire dialect than I did - but I have got a bit of one now. Somebody at uni (in Leicester) once asked if I was Scottish - I know I'm a northerner but I'm not from that far north!

One of my neighbours who comes from nearer Burnley has a definite "Burnley" accent, and my uncle in Southport has elements of a Liverpudlian-type accent. I've met a few people from the Ormskirk area (this hobby gets you out and about!) and I think they sound slightly Liverpudlian, but not quite!

Weirdly, one of my aunties from Newark (Nottinghamshire) has lived in South Africa for nearly fifty years and she still sounds like she's from Newark (I mixed her up with another of my mum's cousins on the phone once) yet her son sounds really South African.

the Wurzels? hmm who is that they like the Dingles?

Janetell,there is nothing better than the phone to get you talking in your old accent lol.When I talk to my sister my Oh says he knows who I'm on the phone to as I become more Devonish !!!!!!!!!!

And I sound like something out of the Wurzells Hayley

Have you ever heard how you sound on a recording OMG I sound like an extra from corrie...lol

For Ann in Glos: I suppose I thought the Hampshire accent was 'a bit posh' as my son in law speaks 'proper like the Queen do'. I may have been misled as his parents are South Africans (from early childhood and you should hear them if you want to hear an accent!) and he went to a good school on the Isle of Wight so he doesn't have a regional accent.

He made me laugh when he said our daughter's accent gets worse when she talks to us on the phone! Worse, indeed! Cheek! That's her ancestral accent me old duck

If I remember there's a little woollen mill there where we go for ar tartan x

I rowed in those rowing boats on that lake for years Mel.I suppose they do speak strange there ,but as I have known them for 55 years I understand lol

I love the lake at Moffatt ~ strange really they only just over the border but they dow arf spake funny x

A lot of my rellies (adoptive) live in Moffat.I understand them fine ,it is the one from Galashiels I have trouble with.

and a pheasant plucker ...........................

eeeh ah divn't nah like........;O)

Nasal Geordie

and .....The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.LOL

Galashiels Jane by Melrose n Moffitt lovely have a relie there go every year not been yet x

Yars I was has it goes but I added a few extras to it lol x

Were you ever taught to say 'How now brown cow' lol

Keith sounds like someone off Eastenders :~} or was it Emmerdale one of the soaps anyhow Oh yeah Crossroads x

When I met Col I had to keep quiet and stretch my ears to hear him ~ still couldn't understand a word he said x

Me I have a beautiful regional accent I just aint sure which region just NOT this one lol x

My accent is a bit mixed, I think the Hampshire is overtaken with South West of some sort, not really Gloucester, probably a bit of Devon washed off from OH but definitely a bit of a burr. And yes, I find myself saying 'mind' on the ends of sentences, a left over from when we lived in the Forest of Dean. But somebody who has met me would have to say really, difficult to judge yourself isn't it?

And, goodness, I would never have said Hampshire was posh!!! Some of it, in the country areas is very broad and where I grew up we dropped our aitches.