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Accents/places in England

What do you reckon to different accents in the south?

I used to think south-east was all the same. Now I realise that maybe a Cambridge accent is different to London, and a Kent is distinct from them, as is Essex. Jeez, now Suffolk accents they are something.

Any accent experts in? Any experts on those places, Kent, Essex etc?

How do they vary? Open dicsussion thread.

Reply 1

BeckyDay

Well I'm from Kent and I notice the differences in accents even between certain towns.

Reply 2

All Black Everything

9

I dont think Kent and London are different.

Reply 3

Chillaxer

OP

15

BeckyDay

Well I'm from Kent and I notice the differences in accents even between certain towns.

Kent is differnet, just can't ut a finger on it, think it's more drawly or rural sounding. Sounds kind of savvy.

Reply 4

claireythepinkfairy

I'm from Suffolk and sometimes the suffolk accent can be very strong, so can the norfolk accent so yes I think the southern accent varies considerably.

Reply 5

Aphotic Cosmos

17

Chillaxer

Kent is differnet, just can't ut a finger on it, think it's more drawly or rural sounding. Sounds kind of savvy.

Erm, what? :lolwut:

I grew up in Kent, and I seriously don't think that we even have an "accent". To most people I'm just a Southerner without any distinguishing accent. If there is a Kentish accent, I'm not able to tell it apart from anywhere else's.

Reply 6

BeckyDay

All Black Everything

I dont think Kent and London are different.

I think it depends what part of London you are talking about, and what part of Kent you are discussing as well.

Reply 7

Footballfiend08

1

Even London has a few different accents. Even in places like reading there is definately an obvious accent different. I find accents amazing lol

Reply 8

Random Guy#001

Didn't think Kent used to have an accent until I moved away but now it's very noticeable when you hear someone from the area, it's kind of a hybrid cockney/chav accent :s-smilie:

Reply 9

the_educated1

I have a 'received pronunciation' accent, any other accent in England is either inappropriate or irrelevant.

:biggrin:

Reply 10

MetalheadA7X

10

Southern accents are all the same apart from the essex one.

I love being Northern.

Reply 11

Fuzzpig

16

Kent accent is a lesser London, slightly cockney accent, softer spoken from what I've heard around here.

Now the Devonian, Cornish and Bristolian accents, I can tell the difference but I doubt people not from that area can!

I love the Bristol accent soooo much. It sounds almost Welsh sometimes.

Reply 12

Fuzzpig

16

Aphotic Cosmos

Erm, what? :lolwut:

I grew up in Kent, and I seriously don't think that we even have an "accent". To most people I'm just a Southerner without any distinguishing accent. If there is a Kentish accent, I'm not able to tell it apart from anywhere else's.

Think of a Londoner who grew up on a farm - that is how I'd describe a Kentish accent.

Reply 13

E_D_B

9

Before I moved to Oxford I assumed that there would be the standard divide here between middle class people speaking RP and everyone else speaking in a cockneyish accent. In fact, working class people here have an accent a bit like the west country one. Broad and kind of farmer-y. :biggrin:

Reply 14

Aphotic Cosmos

17

aliluvschoc

Think of a Londoner who grew up on a farm - that is how I'd describe a Kentish accent.

Oh dear

I'll have to try and notice this next time I go home.

Reply 15

Banana_123

MetalheadA7X

Southern accents are all the same apart from the essex one.

I love being Northern.

This!

Yeah you do all sound the same down south :smile:

But then I'm guessing southern people can't tell the differences between places like Wakefield, Sheffield and Barnsley and they're very distinct in Yorkshire.

Reply 16

Fuzzpig

16

Aphotic Cosmos

Oh dear

I'll have to try and notice this next time I go home.

TBH, being from Devon I quite like it. The London accents can be harsh, so it's sort of tempered a bit.

:yes:

It's really hard to hear your own accent though. I think I speak RP.

Reply 17

E_D_B

9

MetalheadA7X

Southern accents are all the same apart from the essex one.

I love being Northern.

Yeh you're right, we in the south all wish that we sounded like Paul Gascoigne.

Reply 18

BeckyDay

Random Guy#001

Didn't think Kent used to have an accent until I moved away but now it's very noticeable when you hear someone from the area, it's kind of a hybrid cockney/chav accent :s-smilie:

Not sure about the cockney but I agree with the chav accent. :yes:

I was often teased when I was younger because my parents bought me up to not speak like that.

Reply 19

TattyBoJangles

19

I'm from Cambridge (I don't go to the Uni, I just.. live here), but I wouldn't say I could pinpoint a specific 'Cambridge accent'.. on the one hand, you can get some upper-class RP people, and then you get people like my friend, who sound as if they're a watered-down Cockney.
I laugh at her sometimes. She sounds ridiculous, and I don't even think she's ever been to London.

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