Regional Accents/Dialects

[richw]

Now I'm Cornish as you like, but i don't think I have a particulary strong accent, to me people from the Bristol area sound far more West Country than we do down here, the Farming Community down this way on the other hand do...

I have one of the strongest cornish accents going, one half the family are from Cornwall. the other from Bristol... result i sound rather much like Jethro!

 

[blackettstreet]

There is no such thing as "no accent", I hear that all the time! Everyone has an accent, what your saying is you believe you speak a form of Standard English (or essentially Received Pronunciation).

I used to talk really, really geordie before going to a private school for 3 years. I'm now starting to slip again having just started my third year at secondary....words like 'divven' and such keep popping up

 

[Nigel Cliff]

I had to respond to this point in a different thread...



There is no such thing as "no accent", I hear that all the time! Everyone has an accent, what your saying is you believe you speak a form of Standard English (or essentially Received Pronunciation). RP is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as "the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England"

Northernmost Worcestershire where I was born and is now part of the West Midlands does not have a slight Brummie accent it has a slight Black Country accent,there is a major difference

 

[Class172]

Northernmost Worcestershire where I was born and is now part of the West Midlands does not have a slight Brummie accent it has a slight Black Country accent,there is a major difference

I presume you are referring to the former areas of Dudley etc.

 

[theblackwatch]

Madge Wildfire

You go to the extreme saying Yorkshire accents don't exist. Yorkshire is a huge county and of course there are going to be different ways they say words in each town but underlying is a Yorkshire Accent.
I know I have lived here for over 22 years and I can hear the slight differences in those living in Sheffield to Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster but there is a Yorkshire accent.

You are correct about the variations in Yorkshire accents. I work about 12 miles from where I live and some of the people who live more locally to work, or a few miles in the the opposite direction, certainly have much broader Yorkshire accents.

 

[valenta]

I don't think I have a particularly broad geordie accent but people still think my a's or e's on the phone!

 

[SS4]

One of the people I work with today said today that I do not have a Brummie accent. This is despite living in Birmingham for 23 years only heading out of town for no more than two weeks at a time