FabSwingers.com forum: Non geographic accents

By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

Although I live near Bristol I grew up in the South East so I don’t have a Bristol accent.

Do you have have an accent that doesn’t match where you live? If so, what is it?

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I live in Manchester.

I have a (narrow general) Australian accent.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't really have an accent at all. 'Well spoken' is the closest. Nothing like the local accent.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

I speak the queen's english with a posh scouse lilt. I'm from Birmingham and slip into that now and then.

When I really get going the rough, harsh scouse comes out. Maybe that's the real me but inside I still feel Brummy.

P.S. I think it's polite scouse but when i hear myself it's a shock.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"Don't really have an accent at all. 'Well spoken' is the closest. Nothing like the local accent."

You sound like a Scot to me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Don't really have an accent at all. 'Well spoken' is the closest. Nothing like the local accent.

You sound like a Scot to me. "

A quarter is.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I grew up in Hertfordshire but with a Scottish father my accent isn't typical of my area ( unless I've had a few drinks)

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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago

Manchester (he/him)

I lost my regional accent when I went to university, people always comment on my accent or lack thereof.

The only thing that betrays me is when I say ‘bath, grass, dance’ where I use the soft pronunciation

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By *AABMan
over a year ago

Not far

I’ve been living in South Wales for 26 years but still sound very generic Southern England.

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick

I think I've got a fairly neutral, blended accent so it's hard to really tell where it's from.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Welsh accent. Live in England, My son's Welsh lilt was diluted when he started university, he lives in Edinburgh and lost his Welsh accent altogether now.

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By *awk90Man
over a year ago

Amsterdam

I apparently still sound Swedish, despite practising to sound more generic English... Tricky stuff, this. And I get more Swedish when d*unk

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

"I lost my regional accent when I went to university, people always comment on my accent or lack thereof.

The only thing that betrays me is when I say ‘bath, grass, dance’ where I use the soft pronunciation "

No, you still have it, to my ears at least.

I'm op North and I have a Home Counties Accent with a slight twang of elsewhere thanks to my uni years. I know the Home Counties don't have their own accent but it's not quite RP and a lot of people down there sound like me.

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Fortunately I don’t speak like a Hampshire Hog despite being born here.

I’d say well spoken London. The London accent travelled south with the rail and my dad and community worked the London Waterloo line.

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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago

Redhill

I suppose what people would call a Hispanic/Latin American accent... though I sound nothing like Salma Hayek, haha... her accent is too broad for my liking. (I appreciate this is a turn on for many!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I didn’t really have one being from Nottinghamshire, but now it’s mixed up from working with guys from all over England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.. a few yanks, Aussies and South Africans too.

I just get told I sound northern like sean bean

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Posh English with a slight slur into an American accent on some words. The Reading accent seems mostly a London one.

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

I don’t. I’ve lived in too many places. Although I do tend to slip back into the accent when I go back to the places I’ve lived and my children always know who I’m on the phone to by the way I speak even though I don’t notice it!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I didn’t really have one being from Nottinghamshire, but now it’s mixed up from working with guys from all over England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.. a few yanks, Aussies and South Africans too.

I just get told I sound northern like sean bean "

Think it’s because I use the B bomb like it’s a full stop to most comments

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

I definitely don't have any accent .

Just a nondescript boring drawl really , I hate my voice

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

To many parts of my life make up my accent. Although people say it is predominantly London (I can’t hear it myself) other accents slip in with certain words or a part of an accent gets stronger if I’ve been interacting with family. I also have a tendency to unconsciously slip into other accents when around others with a strong accent.

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

"To many parts of my life make up my accent. Although people say it is predominantly London (I can’t hear it myself) other accents slip in with certain words or a part of an accent gets stronger if I’ve been interacting with family. I also have a tendency to unconsciously slip into other accents when around others with a strong accent. "

I’d say London but you do say some things proper northern

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By *ookie46Woman
over a year ago

Deepest darkest Peru

I’d say London but you do say some things proper northern

I’m with Nora on this one .... you can do my makem accent soon

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

I’d say London but you do say some things proper northern

You just can’t shake your dna

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

I’d say London but you do say some things proper northern

I’m with Nora on this one .... you can do my makem accent soon

Haha I think yours is the quickest I’ve ever slipped into. Look forward to it x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’d say London but you do say some things proper northern

I’m with Nora on this one .... you can do my makem accent soon

I chatted to you at the MLS a few years ago. I liked the way Cookie sounded in your Makem accent when you introduced yourself

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"I lost my regional accent when I went to university, people always comment on my accent or lack thereof.

The only thing that betrays me is when I say ‘bath, grass, dance’ where I use the soft pronunciation "

barth , grarse , darnce ?

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By *ookie46Woman
over a year ago

Deepest darkest Peru

I’d say London but you do say some things proper northern

I’m with Nora on this one .... you can do my makem accent soon

I chatted to you at the MLS a few years ago. I liked the way Cookie sounded in your Makem accent when you introduced yourself "

People kept making me say my name

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

How is it possible not to have an accent at all ?

Who decides what is a "normal" accent ? For example the pronunciation of scone.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

scone: as in gone

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

I’d say London but you do say some things proper northern

I’m with Nora on this one .... you can do my makem accent soon

I chatted to you at the MLS a few years ago. I liked the way Cookie sounded in your Makem accent when you introduced yourself

People kept making me say my name

Coooooooooookie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’d say London but you do say some things proper northern

I’m with Nora on this one .... you can do my makem accent soon

I chatted to you at the MLS a few years ago. I liked the way Cookie sounded in your Makem accent when you introduced yourself

People kept making me say my name

Haha, I remember

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

"scone: as in gone"

I say it as in bone

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

I’m not from Yorkshire and even though I’ve lived up here for 11 years now, my home accent is still prevalent. I’m originally from The Wirral but it’s a diluted version.

C is originally from Lincolnshire but has lived all over the country and until recently Cambridge, so has a plummy accent (in a good way).

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Home Counties born and bread so a total non-accent, although if I spend an amount of time in a certain area that has a strong regional accent or with someone from a certain area with the same then I do tend to pick up hints of that accent or odd words that are specific to it.

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

My accent is more northern than I'd like...Southerners think I sound Northern, Northerners think I sound posh (I'm not, I just pronounce my haitches and the word "the" in it's entirity). I sound like Danny Dyer when I'm either d*unk or really angry.

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By *ittycenMan
over a year ago

south west

Apparently I have a very calming voice. When I worked on a service desk, it was pointed out once that a lot of ladies would hang up and call back to speak to me, which explained a fair bit of the giggly ness!

Also have been told I sound posh, but I’m from swindon. I do sometimes hear a Norfolk accent in my own voice as I do have a family background there

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've lived in Manchester for over 20 years but still have my Southampton accent...

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By *anae21Woman
over a year ago

Nearer than you think

Yes, OP; so I've been told.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've lived all over but sound exactly the same (with a few American isms) my parents paid a lot for my accent

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Kind of. I was born and grew up in South London, then spent my adolescence in Wirral, my early 20s in Leicester and now I live in Liverpool. Northerners think I'm posh, Southerners think I sound Northern (i.e. common as muck

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My grandmother was an English teacher. She drilled the Yorkshire accent out of me. It still creeps out after a couple of pints though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Northen Irish in South Manchester...Colleagues regularly have to ask me regularly to slow down when I speak...

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By *ittycenMan
over a year ago

south west

"I've lived all over but sound exactly the same (with a few American isms) my parents paid a lot for my accent

In my mind, you have a Russian accent to go with your name! Unoriginal yes, but I can’t help it!

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

"I speak the queen's english with a posh scouse lilt. I'm from Birmingham and slip into that now and then.

When I really get going the rough, harsh scouse comes out. Maybe that's the real me but inside I still feel Brummy.

P.S. I think it's polite scouse but when i hear myself it's a shock.

It’s normal, I used to live in Worcester and even now when I’m with friends my accent changes to a more Birmingham accent

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My accent is more northern than I'd like...Southerners think I sound Northern, Northerners think I sound posh (I'm not, I just pronounce my haitches and the word "the" in it's entirity). I sound like Danny Dyer when I'm either d*unk or really angry. "

'What the fark's goin' on?! Get in there! Shut it!'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Kind of. I was born and grew up in South London, then spent my adolescence in Wirral, my early 20s in Leicester and now I live in Liverpool. Northerners think I'm posh, Southerners think I sound Northern (i.e. common as muck

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I worked in London with a bloke from Newcastle. He was very well spoken until we went for a drink with some of his friends and I sat there surrounded by thick Geordie accents wondering what was going on.

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

It's funny because most are talking of moving great distances to have a misplaced accent. I now live about 20 miles from where I was brought up and my accent is different to the locals. M grew up 27 miles away from me and we sound completely different.

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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago

Manchester (he/him)

"I lost my regional accent when I went to university, people always comment on my accent or lack thereof.

The only thing that betrays me is when I say ‘bath, grass, dance’ where I use the soft pronunciation

barth , grarse , darnce ?"

No, there are no ‘r’s’ in those words

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My husband was from Devon, after 12 years up here people thought he was a scouser

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Grew up down in Kent... now in the masses of Norfolk speaking folk.

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

"I’m not from Yorkshire and even though I’ve lived up here for 11 years now, my home accent is still prevalent. I’m originally from The Wirral but it’s a diluted version.

C is originally from Lincolnshire but has lived all over the country and until recently Cambridge, so has a plummy accent (in a good way).

Your accents compliment one another

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

I don’t have a Lincolnshire accent even though I have lived here all my life

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

Soft Californian accent that sticks out like a sore thumb wherever I go!

Confused with canadian 90% of the time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't know. Recently I confused someone. Maybe I was trying too hard..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I've lived all over but sound exactly the same (with a few American isms) my parents paid a lot for my accent

In my mind, you have a Russian accent to go with your name! Unoriginal yes, but I can’t help it!"

But of course

accent always changes with my name changes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am french with a Cumbrian accent, could unsettled a few peoples

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

Live in Leeds but I'm Scottish x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Live in Leeds but I'm Scottish x"

Omg I've had you as Yorkshire for years!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

yep

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"yep

Px "

Awwhite geezeeee

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

"Live in Leeds but I'm Scottish x

Omg I've had you as Yorkshire for years!

Nope, Scottish born and bred x

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

I sound more Cardiff (think Nessa from Gavin & Stacey) than Valleys (think Stacey from Gavin & Stacey).

The Welsh regional accents differ a lot!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m from yam yam land originally but although my accent has faded somewhat it’s still strong here in sunny wiltshire

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By *ringles0510Woman
over a year ago

Central Borders

Living in Scotland with a Dutch accent

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By *nliveneTV/TS
over a year ago

Selby

I live in Selby and i have an mystical accent

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being home schooled on rather primitive computers,70s/80s I have an accent not unlike Stephen Hawking

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yep, I was born and grew up in Liverpool, I now live in South Yorkshire where my accent doesn’t quite fit in with the locals

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

I don't have my local accent at all x

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

"Live in Leeds but I'm Scottish x"

I did not know that. Nice surprise though.

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

"Live in Leeds but I'm Scottish x

I did not know that. Nice surprise though. "

I am full of surprises

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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon

I'm a south east London type. But apparently I have a lot of West Country in my voice now.

I've been accused of sounding Aussie on a lot of occasions though.

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By *EAT..85Woman
over a year ago

Nottingham

"I live in Manchester.

I have a (narrow general) Australian accent."

Omg! We (I) need a voice video clip of that!

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By *EAT..85Woman
over a year ago

Nottingham

I have a posh accent for Nottingham apparently.

When I lived in York for three years I adopted a horrific 'Yorkshire' accent that my mates took the piss out of me for

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