revtothelimit - motorbike forum

Prompted by another thread.

Wotcha got? I'm detectably from the Midlands but much diluted after leaving (via Yorkshire, Newcastle (on Tyne), Wales (north), that London and ending up in the softy southern climes.

My 'tells' are castle, bath, buns and cubs.

Still reasonably Scouse

Windows are made out of Glaaaaaaas, but the postman caries Elastic bands.

So pretty southern, but not fully posh.

My car voice activation stuff gets it right 99% of the time, so I can't have much of an accent

Properly from “Dahn Sarf” according to my old Telecoms Instructor who was a Black Country Boy

Southern Softy, a hint of 'Ampshoire yokel, along with a mild Lahndun inf(l)ection.

That's being from the Basingstoke area.

So 'hospital' becomes 'hospitool'. Sounds perfectly correct to me, but Filly comments occasionally.

Apart from that, lazy pronunciation rather than crisp diction.

Mrs D is from Lincolnshire and she always used to pronounce words like "glass" with a very short vowel sound. She now says Glaaass like me...expect when we're up north and then she starts slipping back.

Thankfully she's never called roundabouts "islands".

West Country deepest Devon overlaid by Proper Cornish, all toned down by 50 years in the South East. Comes out strongly when conversing with someone else from the west. One job in London involved liaising with the regional teams, the Bristol guy had a strong Brizzle accent, and all the office could tell when I was talking with him because my end of the conversation was littered with "me 'ansome".

I grew up next to an RAF camp, went to school with RAF kids. A proper mix of accents and dialects.

So I've got a Yorkshire/Doncaster accent, but it's not as strong as it could be. I live in Barnsley and I can't understand half of the locals.

weeksy wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:30 am Still reasonably Scouse

Yup! I reckon Scouse and Geordie tend to stick. Brum slightly less so...until they say bloimey.

I have slipped a bit into glarss, and carslte but buns and cubs never let me down.

Count Steer wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:09 am

weeksy wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:30 am Still reasonably Scouse

Yup! I reckon Scouse and Geordie tend to stick. Brum slightly less so...until they say bloimey.

The native.brummy at work always reveals himself with the word "tooth". "Tuf".

I'm Essex but apparently I don't sound like I am?

I think my favourite is Geordie. I knew one who on entering a pub in Yorkshire said the general impression was everyone was talking in Morse code, it was all 'da da da dit dit, dit dit da da da' whereas the hubbub in a Geordie pub is quite 'sing-song'.

(First time going up to Newcastle we stopped off somewhere and the missus thought the Geordie wimmin were Swedish au pairs. - Wife's a (Greater London) southerner).

I've heard a few times that call centres like having Geordie women on the complaints line. Apparently the most ammeanable accent.

v8-powered wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:11 am I'm Essex but apparently I don't sound like I am?

Apart, perhaps, from making every statement into a question?

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:19 am I've heard a few times that call centres like having Geordie women on the complaints line. Apparently the most ammeanable accent.

The Orange call centre was in Geordiland for that reason.

There's an O2 (Capita) call centre about two miles from my house.

KungFooBob wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:27 am

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:19 am I've heard a few times that call centres like having Geordie women on the complaints line. Apparently the most ammeanable accent.

The Orange call centre was in Geordiland for that reason.

There's an O2 (Capita) call centre about two miles from my house.

I dunno if it's a coincidence (or the fact they're part of RBS) but every time I speak to Halifax on the phone I get a serious sounding Scotsman. Maybe it's supposed to reassure me that they're all sensible people.

I have a thoroughly generic Southern accent. I could probably be placed as being from within 100 miles of London but that's it.

I have a soft Saffer accent. Scottish father and me living in SE London for 28 years, it comes out more strongly when I am tired or angry. Apparently I have a melodious voice....

I sometimes mimic accents to better understand what people are saying to me (being profoundly hard of hearing, it helps with intonation and working out the dialect/accent).

Home counties cut glass.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:29 am

KungFooBob wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:27 am

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:19 am I've heard a few times that call centres like having Geordie women on the complaints line. Apparently the most ammeanable accent.

The Orange call centre was in Geordiland for that reason.

There's an O2 (Capita) call centre about two miles from my house.

I dunno if it's a coincidence (or the fact they're part of RBS) but every time I speak to Halifax on the phone I get a serious sounding Scotsman. Maybe it's supposed to reassure me that they're all sensible people.

Halifax are part of Lloyds/Bank of Scotland, not NatWest/Royal Bank of Scotland