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Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:16 pm
by Buckaroo
Skub wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:20 am
Buckaroo wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:14 am A bit like a member of the Royal family :obscene-drinkingcheers:
Hide Lizzy,the Kents are coming.
Note that I didn't say which Royal family one sounds like :obscene-birdiedoublered:

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:19 pm
by Le_Fromage_Grande
Obviously I'm so widely travelled and highly educated that I have no discernible accent, but I do like to talk like Eric Cartman from South Park at inappropriate times

And obviously I take any opportunity to talk like a pirate

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:21 pm
by KungFooBob
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:19 pm Obviously I'm so widely travelled and highly educated that I have no discernible accent, but I do like to talk like Eric Cartman from South Park at inappropriate times

And obviously I take any opportunity to talk like a pirate
Do you know all the words to Kyle’s Mom’s a Bitch?

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:24 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
KungFooBob wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:21 pm
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:19 pm Obviously I'm so widely travelled and highly educated that I have no discernible accent, but I do like to talk like Eric Cartman from South Park at inappropriate times

And obviously I take any opportunity to talk like a pirate
Do you know all the words to Kyle’s Mom’s a Bitch?
*Deep Breath*

Weeeellllll.......

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:45 pm
by Skub
Slenver wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:40 pm Sorry, come again?

I always assume you sound like that bloke off the telly that's been in some things.
I will find you.....

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:08 pm
by Cousin Jack
Call centres are usually placed near cities with low wage rates., nothing to do with accents.

Except Glasgow of course, no bugger can understand a Glaswegegian accent.

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:10 pm
by mangocrazy
Sunny wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:15 pm
mangocrazy wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:46 am My fave West Midlands accent is Dudley (including Tipton, if you're being generous).

The locals pronounce it as 'Doodloy'
<Waves>
Sedgley, Dudley :thumbup:
:D <waves back> I lived 40 years of my life in Stafford and used to work with a guy from Dudley. I've also been to Gornal (not sure if it was Upper or Lower) to visit Ketley Bricks on a number of occasions.

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:16 pm
by gremlin
Got chatting to a Yank in Jamaica some years ago, he was over on business setting up a call centre there. As he said, there's plenty of willing, reasonably well-educated people, but the icing on the cake was the Jamaican accent. Apparently market research of Americans showed that they found the Jamaican accent happy and cheerful. Fair play.

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:32 pm
by Ian
Nottingham so I sound like Sue Pollard, however my Mum was from Yorkshire so some of it must have rubbed off on me - it made my day when a Southerner at work said I was blunt and northern :obscene-birdiedoublered:

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:42 pm
by Count Steer
Ian wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:32 pm Nottingham so I sound like Sue Pollard, however my Mum was from Yorkshire so some of it must have rubbed off on me - it made my day when a Southerner at work said I was blunt and northern :obscene-birdiedoublered:
AKA Dottigub. :D

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:47 pm
by Ian
Count Steer wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:42 pm
AKA Dottigub. :D
I'm told we pronounce *all* vowels as a U

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:01 pm
by Horse
Ian wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:47 pm
Count Steer wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:42 pm
AKA Dottigub. :D
I'm told we pronounce *all* vowels as a U
Can't be as bad as New Zealand. Place is so poor they can only afford one vowel. All are pronounced 'i' as in 'if'.

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:04 pm
by Count Steer
Ian wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:47 pm
Count Steer wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:42 pm
AKA Dottigub. :D
I'm told we pronounce *all* vowels as a U
Hmm. Maybe combination vowels get treated differently, so house becomes haarss. But otherwise it holds up for 'I'll go to our house' (as in, 'well, I am surprised!') which becomes 'I'll guttr aaar-raarss'.

(I'm from Ayupmiduck land too).

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:50 pm
by Taff
Dragged up in the south Wales valleys, so err, yeah, I've got a bit of an accent :bblonde:

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:07 pm
by ChrisW

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:09 pm
by Druid
Taff wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:50 pm Dragged up in the south Wales valleys, so err, yeah, I've got a bit of an accent :bblonde:
Aarite but?

I went to school in Ponty so I know that accent.

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:31 pm
by Taipan
gremlin wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:16 pm Got chatting to a Yank in Jamaica some years ago, he was over on business setting up a call centre there. As he said, there's plenty of willing, reasonably well-educated people, but the icing on the cake was the Jamaican accent. Apparently market research of Americans showed that they found the Jamaican accent happy and cheerful. Fair play.
Not sure i'd want patois when discussing errant purchases or overdrafts! :D Mind you I love sidequestz! :D


Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:19 pm
by Yorick
I imagine @Taipan looking and sounding like Arfur Daley :obscene-birdiedoublered:

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:32 pm
by MrLongbeard
Depends who I'm talking too and it what context.
From Leicester and been in Worcestershire for the past 15 years, I tend to get really country bumpkin' when talking to my FiL, only the 3rd or 4th word out of my mouth are actual real words

Re: Accents. Have you got one?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:34 pm
by MrLongbeard
mangocrazy wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:46 am My fave West Midlands accent is Dudley (including Tipton, if you're being generous).

The locals pronounce it as 'Doodloy'
dow yows, everyone of 'em descends on Stourport for their holidays