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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited October 2023
    Wasn't that a car? @Biglad But then so was Mercedes. Still, if some unfortunate children are called Chardonnay, why not Cortina or Prosecco.
    Australian aboriginals often would ( not sure if they do it now) give their children names of things they like the sound of. One  I remember hearing of was cuppotea as in cup of tea.
    The non native Australians liked names ending in ene . A memorable one was Chlorene. I also remember one called Rubella.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    So long as you got the spelling right @LittleGreyRabbit
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  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    Loxley said:
    Joyce Goldenlily said:
    People who pronounce pound, around etc as parnd, ararnd. The actor Nigel Havers, who presents The Bidding Room is a classic example.
    Unless you're from the East Midlands, where 'house' is pronounced 'arse', sound is pronounced 'sarrnd', and roll is pronounced 'cob'.
    B3 said:
    @Loxley hoyse is even posher than harse
    I don't think my accent has ever been mistaken for being posh! 😂

    I really love regional dialects and accents but when someone from Nottingham is on the telly I always think they sound awful, glad I don't sound like that !! 😁 
    Nottinghamshire.
    Failure is always an option.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    There are some accents I could listen to for hours and some I'd rather not.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    edited October 2023
    I'm the same,  just glad I don't have an accent!

    (Edit- I have a strong Nottinghamshire accent which I would not change for anything, I was just joking as I previous said I don't like listening to people from Nottingham on the telly. ☺)
    Nottinghamshire.
    Failure is always an option.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Everybody has one😊
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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I've been told that I don't have an accent, but I've also been told that my accent is posh.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I understand that deaf people who have learnt to speak, truly have no accent. 
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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    That figures, if they've been deaf from birth and never heard other people speaking. I wonder if you can tell that people have different accents from the way their lips move when they're speaking.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Yes you can tell. I sometimes turn the sound off with subtitles and try to guess the accent. The way the mouth moves with the vowel sounds is the key. @JennyJ. Can't manage many regional English but I often get american, australian, Scottish , London  / estuary right 
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