Cardiff accent

I wonder how is cardiff accent compared to other cities in terms of comprehensibility and 'elegancy.' I personally think that the london accent is the nicest.

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Reply 1

Jamin

Well i'm Scottish so you're screwed if you ever bump into me.

Unfortunately you'll probably be able to pick me out of the crowd from a mile away from my accent.

Reply 2

River85

yipkc

I wonder how is cardiff accent compared to other cities in terms of comprehensibility and 'elegancy.' I personally think that the london accent is the nicest.

Cockney? You have to be kidding me? Or are we talking outside the east end. If so, it's not really much of an accent.

Anyway, I'd say fairly comprehensible. More comprehesible than a moderate to strong Geordie (Newcastle) or Glaswegian. Even then it's not so much accent that can be a problem but dialect.

You'll find a range of accents in cities anyway, certainly capital cities such as Cardiff (with plenty of students).

Reply 3

RightSaidJames

The traditional Cardiffian accent is somewhere between Welsh and Northern-ish, it's quite weird. However, to most people it's perfectly comprehensible, as it lacks the blurriness of other Welsh accents - sounds are much more defined.

Here's an example:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/sites/voices/pages/cardiff.shtml

Reply 4

Pirouette

I have a slight Cardiff accent, it's mostly evident in words such as Earth and ear. Ear often turns out sounding like 'yur'.

Reply 5

eulerwaswrong

i live a few miles from cardiff but dont have anything like you typical "kaardiff accent" - a cardiff accent is quite different to a welsh accent.

A welsh accent - especially a west/north walean sounds very lyrical and quite nice but a cardiff accent is horrible.

How do you define a london accent by the way? i dont think there is such a thing as a "london" accent

Reply 6

eulerwaswrong

Pirouette

I have a slight Cardiff accent, it's mostly evident in words such as Earth and ear. Ear often turns out sounding like 'yur'.

how else are supposed to say it?? - ear is said as "yur" - only wierd people say ear as "e-er".

how can you say earth differently

Reply 7

Epik High

yipkc

I wonder how is cardiff accent compared to other cities in terms of comprehensibility and 'elegancy.' I personally think that the london accent is the nicest.

Because you aren't going to a particularly good university, you're basing prestige on the accent of those around? That is what I see in the purpose of this thread. :cool:

Personally, I like girls with a cardiff accent more than girls with a cockney accent.

Reply 8

tiger_vio

mines a bit stronger than a cardiff accent as im about 30 mins to the northeast, but similar. cardiff accents just arent welsh enough for me sorry! :P

Reply 9

Davydude

When I went down to the open-day, I was shocked that I only heard just a few welsh accents.
Which is a little bit of a shame as I quite like it

Reply 10

RightSaidJames

I have the people going to Cardiff on my MSN in a group labelled "Caaaaadiff" :p:

Reply 11

Triplet1

RightSaidJames

My sister is doing music at Cardiff. :smile:

Reply 12

RightSaidJames

Triplet1

My sister is doing music at Cardiff. :smile:

Can I ask her first name? I've talked to a few people, would be good to talk to more :smile:

Reply 13

Triplet1

RightSaidJames

Can I ask her first name?

Laura. She is gona be living in talybont south. :smile:

Reply 14

RightSaidJames

Triplet1

Laura. She is gona be living in talybont south. :smile:

Thanks, I'll track her down, although I might have her on MSN already :ninja:

Reply 15

crunchman

tiger_vio

mines a bit stronger than a cardiff accent as im about 30 mins to the northeast, but similar. cardiff accents just arent welsh enough for me sorry! :P

Heh mine's probably too much :biggrin:

Reply 16

the carddiff

the london accent is not the best, the carrdiff one is even though its not really an accent and more of a lack of a welsh accent but it is better than your accent, whatever your accent is unleless it is a carrdiff accent then it is the perfection.

Reply 17

the carddiff

Original post by eulerwaswrong

how else are supposed to say it?? - ear is said as "yur" - only wierd people say ear as "e-er".

how can you say earth differently

??? it is litarlly written as 'ear' you pathetic child

Reply 18

the carddiff

Original post by tiger_vio

mines a bit stronger than a cardiff accent as im about 30 mins to the northeast, but similar. cardiff accents just arent welsh enough for me sorry! :P