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What English Accent do you speak in?

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I'm Welsh but I mumble like a bastard, so people seem to assume I'm the right accent for whatever I'm doing at the time, e.g. American when posting a letter to America, Scottish when buying whiskey. If they can't hear you, you get to be ALL the accents :awesome:
Despite the fact that I'm not international, and this being the international lounge...

I'd say my accent is this weird mix of about 70% North West Wales and 30% RP. Since English is my second language, there's a lot less slang in it than there would normally be, so I sound quite well spoken in English.

Oh, and I speak really fast due to being Welsh and all... :awesome:
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I speak Manchesta!
I sound a little bit like Sean Bean trying to speak with a London accent.
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stifa
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I have a distinct Norwegian accent, and hates it. Hopefully, spending three or four years in England starting 2012 will partly eliminate this.
Just a Nottingham accent.
After a year of not speaking a word of English except for when I was speaking to Americans (as there were no British people there that I knew of) I developed an American accent. Now back at home, I have a diluted yorkshire accent, which sometimes goes American when I'm not thinking, or I'll start to pronounce words like "with" as "wiv", which I'm assuming I picked up being in Essex :h: But overall, a yorkshire accent with just some random stuff thrown in :smile:
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Linweth
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Original post by tvdx
I think I speak normally, fairly well spoken and i don't say things like "fink" for think, and "sumfin" for something. I'm going to say, standard british.


Same here :colondollar:
Mish mash between posh scots and northern irish.
ITT: People confusing RP with Standard Southern English.
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KJane
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I have a London accent but my driving instructor once told me my accent sounded slightly posh mixed with in a typical west London accent. Strange.

But I love it when I spend time with my family in Ireland who all have very strong Irish accents and after spending a few weeks with them and get home there is a new, slight twang that lasts a little while. :tongue:
Yorkshire
A bizarre blend of slightly posh southern English and rural/west-country.
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Erm.... well I have lived in Hampshire for most of my life and some time in Berkshire. So I will have just a normal English accent that is slightly posh (but not like ridiculously posh that is the stereotype on some films).
Generic, almost neutral Accent, with North West loan words.
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Northern Lancashire-ish, either colloquial or formal depending on the situation. However when around my parents its quite South African.
Original post by blair turgott
Erm.... well I have lived in Hampshire for most of my life and some time in Berkshire. So I will have just a normal English accent that is slightly posh (but not like ridiculously posh that is the stereotype on some films).


Same and same. I live in Hampshire too lol :biggrin:
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Northern Lancashire-ish, either colloquial or formal depending on the situation. However when around my parents its quite South African.


I think mine is like that, save the south African, but for a lancastrian, I think I have quite a high degree of RP.
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camaieu
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Northern Ireland :smile: Think more James Nesbitt and Bronagh Waugh (Cheryl from Hollyoaks) than Nadine Coyle
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sh1519
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a slight brummy twang even though i live in the outskirts of the black country rather than birmingham :s-smilie:

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