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  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    Goodness only knows what my accent counts as! I collected words I liked as I moved around. 'Mither' is one of them and used often.
    Born a southerner, thanks to scholarship went to posh school, then started moving North. Leicester uni, friends a mixture, teacher training in Derbyshire, then a while teaching children in Co.Durham.
     Ex mining village, dirt poor, the loveliest kids you could hope to meet. Really strong accents but we got along and I got some new vocabulary :) I told off a couple of girls once for talking in class, said it wasn't helping them and not fair on the others. They turned up a day later with a box of chocolates to say sorry!
    Married, moved to Cheshire, OH was born Sheffield, grew up in South Wales, more new words and accents. From my garden now I can see Derbyshire again. When we go for a day out I have to 'correct' my daughter's pronunciation of the village names :)
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    Yes, I think so @B3 

    My triplets should've been Ghost, Phantom and Spectre :D 
    East Lancs
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    I love the different accents in the UK but - yes, I would like to see presenters on TV speak better grammar and not say "Was ya?" "Is ya?" "Does ya?" etc etc.  They are front line people and the Frenchies will ask me what they're saying.  People that are being interviewed are excepted.  Just get the front line people organised.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Some people think I sound quite posh.  Actual posh people know instantly that I'm not.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Overheard in Morrison today, (couldn’t help but hear). Kid called Calcipher.  Whatever does that mean. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Mrs-B3-Southampton,-HantsMrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants Posts: 732
    I was actually told by a stranger that I'm Australian. Wouldn't believe me that I was born and bred in Southampton and have never lived anywhere else to change my accent.
    Southampton 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited October 2023
    Isn't there some sort of brain trauma where people come out of a coma with a completely different accent or is that a load of social media nonsense?
    Edit: found this
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    didyw said:
    Some people think I sound quite posh.  Actual posh people know instantly that I'm not.
    You sound normal to me, Didyw. How did I sound?
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2023
    Busy-Lizzie said:
    didyw said:
    Some people think I sound quite posh.  Actual posh people know instantly that I'm not.
    You sound normal to me, Didyw. How did I sound?
    You both sound normal to me, I was told I had ‘a classless accent’ … I was once cast as a 1960s R3 announcer in a play … but I had to put on a BBC RP accent for that. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Lyn said:
    Overheard in Morrison today, (couldn’t help but hear). Kid called Calcipher.  Whatever does that mean. 

    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
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