Your accent - help or a hindrance?

[Mussels]

South Wales valleys here and whilst it hasn't held me back I still get blank looks from my southern English friends when I'm drunk and go full taff.

I was down the south when first lockdown hit (Maesteg) Understood everyone even the drunks but some old guy at the petrol garage was having difficulty with my accent when he told me "we dont take Scottish notes." Tough shit mate im not sooking the fucking diesel back out.

That used to annoy the hell out of me, I'd get stuck with Jock notes that English shops refused despite them being legal tender. On the flip side I didn't complain when I offloaded Gibraltar money in English shops which wasn't legal tender.

[the_priest]

Grew up in South Africa, Scottish father, mother whose dad was French. Also deaf, so cannot hear my own voice, it is very odd hearing a recording of my voice in Church or online. People can usually place me as from SA, but not always. I've been asked if I am Dutch (being tall makes that a logical guess) or from the colonies. I don't really bother with accents, I just lipread and get on with life.

[tricol]

Hindrance. Still is. I have been mocked a lot, but I'm used to it.

[McSatan]

I just modify mine to suit the occasion. I can switch between the poshest sounding educated drawl of a Scottish Laird to the raucous drunken rant of a cider fuelled tramp that you'd cross the street to avoid with no problems at all. Day to day it's somewhere inbetween, never been a problem to me. Ya fucken tube

Have to say though, after a long weekend back home in the pubs of Kelty, it takes me a while to stop using the word 'c***' as punctuation

[Taipan]

When repotted people visit home, it's like they get a reboot on their accents! Got a Geordie and a Weegie at work and you can tell instantly if they've been home again as you can't understand a word!

[ZRX61]

I lived all over so mine is hard to pin down (Cornwall, Devon, Hants, London, Kent, Notts, Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk, London).. & having now spent half my life in the US I apparently now sound like a fucking Aussie.. even to some genuine Aussies...

It's sufficient to dissolve the knickers right off the wimmens here, so I can't complain.

[ZRX61]

When repotted people visit home, it's like they get a reboot on their accents! Got a Geordie and a Weegie at work and you can tell instantly if they've been home again as you can't understand a word!

Same with a mate of mine over here, he goes home to Margate for a couple of weeks & I can't understand a damn thing he says for a month.

[ZRX61]

That used to annoy the hell out of me, I'd get stuck with Jock notes that English shops refused despite them being legal tender. On the flip side I didn't complain when I offloaded Gibraltar money in English shops which wasn't legal tender.

Came back from the Channel Islands in '80 & had a bunch of blue Jersey £1 notes. Got change for a fiver every time I spent one. Had I known ahead of time I would have bought back a lot more..

[Count Steer]

When repotted people visit home, it's like they get a reboot on their accents! Got a Geordie and a Weegie at work and you can tell instantly if they've been home again as you can't understand a word!

We had someone at school (in the East Midlands) who sounded like the rest of us. His dad was a cockernee sparrer and worked for BR, his mum, strangely enough, was a nicely spoken Swiss woman. All a bit beauty and the beast!

If you visited him at his own house he was all 'put yer muvva on the barrer' talking to his dad and all 'la-di-da, jolly super' talking to his mum.

He went a bit strange. Studied politics, became a Trotskyist and joined the WRP.