General Chat

Reading a recent thread on here got me thinking. What accents do you struggle to understand and has it caused any laughs. My family come from Nottingham and my dad had quite a broad accent. He kept budgerigars in an aviary in the garden. My eldest brother met a girl from Oxford (you know that place down south) and brought her home to meet us. My dad offered to take her in the garden to see the birds (pronounced 'buds' up here). Wanting to give a good impression she promptly extols the virtues of our plants in the garden, whilst hes talking about the budgerigars and looking at her as if shes away with the fairies

Oh Jenny I love accents but probably the hardest for me to understand is very broad Glaswegian, I love welsh,cornish and Geordie accents, Caz xxxx

I agree Nyneve, I struggle to undertand Billy Connolly. I love the geordie accent, although I struggle to understand that sometimes. I also like the Liverpudian accent and since Peter Kay - definitely Bolton

I have difficulty with the geordie one, I have a friend a few doors away who's married to a geordie and I always have to ask him twice as to what he's said.lol. catherine xx

well when me & hubby were'courting' in the 1950.s his grandad was broad Irish never could understand what he said & would say 'yes' & 'no' and hope i was answering right.I felt too embarrassed to keep saying 'sorry??' So hoped I was being polite.