Accent confusion

Personally, I've got a slight County Durham accent ... nobody born after about 1975 has a particularly strong accent here anymore ... so my accent I would think is fairly easy to understand.
That said, I guess it does sound a little exotic to people who aren't used to hearing it, so I think people make a lot of assumptions about my way of speaking. So far I've been confused for the following:

- Welsh (all the time)
-- in addition, someone in North Wales once thought I was from South Wales
- Scottish (usually by Americans)
- French
- American
- Canadian
- from 'the (American) South' (in Massachusetts)
- from Liverpool

One time I overheard this loud-mouthed bloke chatting trash at a bar in Edinburgh. After hearing his accent, I concluded he was from Lancashire or somewhere. Turned out he was actually from Georgia in the United States.

Reply 1

Kathy89

As a foreigner I can't tell all the kinds of British accents, for me they are all just British accents

Reply 2

Alesha1991

Original post by SlashBandicoot

Personally, I've got a slight County Durham accent ... nobody born after about 1975 has a particularly strong accent here anymore ... so my accent I would think is fairly easy to understand.
That said, I guess it does sound a little exotic to people who aren't used to hearing it, so I think people make a lot of assumptions about my way of speaking. So far I've been confused for the following:
- Welsh (all the time)
-- in addition, someone in North Wales once thought I was from South Wales
- Scottish (usually by Americans)
- French
- American
- Canadian
- from 'the (American) South' (in Massachusetts)
- from Liverpool
One time I overheard this loud-mouthed bloke chatting trash at a bar in Edinburgh. After hearing his accent, I concluded he was from Lancashire or somewhere. Turned out he was actually from Georgia in the United States.

I'm from Leeds & I've had my accent mistaken for Scottish a few times when I've been in the US. I wonder if it's because their stereotypical idea of an 'English accent' is based more on southern accents so maybe to Americans northern accents sound closer to Scottish ones.