General Chat

Obviously I dont think I have an accent and have lived in the West Country just over 5 years now.

I find I can understand people easier than I used too, it all sounded very odd at first - especially putting L's on the end of things - what a good Idea'l' is a classic of my mother in laws for a good idea - but I dont think my accent has changed.......however, when I was in London the other week a freind asked why I kept saying 'Mind' at the end of my sentances .....

Many years ago while on holiday in Yorkshire a couple asked if I was born near Leigh in Surrey - well I was born less than 15 miles away from there

Janetell ,I know that dialect.I am in Kettering!!

Hello Jane in Kettering. Well, I should say 'Kettrin'. Air youngest lives in Hampshire now, they talk a bit posher dain there. I 'ave to watch me aitches when I visit.

Lol Janetell.I think I would rather speak Hampshire than Kettrin!!!!!!.Not that I'm stuck up or anything lol.I have lived here for 24 years and still notice the accent .

I met 2 Birth Brothers 2 years ago.There was me with a non accent ,but with a little Devon burr,a brother who is cockney,and a brother with a Galashiels accent.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.I kept saying pardon?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Nasal Geordie

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

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

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

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

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

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