Do accents, twangs or little things said by people from different areas grind your gears like they do mine?

[Cockneycarl]

I love people from all walks of life as diversity and difference is the spice of life, but i can't for the life of me ever get to grips with the way country folk talk, the way they say "Summat" instead of something, the way they say "T" instead of The and yesterday i was standing in trafalgar square and actually heard someone say with a slow drawl "we had the BESTEST time didn't we" ARRGH! "Bestest"? I actually asked him where he was from and he told me and i thought i will seriously avoid ever going to that place if they all talk like that, lol.
What accent or the way people talk from the uk really enrages you?

[tonyav]

LOL, he knows I'm right.

[tiggerblue10]

I don't hate any accent but I do find some hard to understand. I've got a Saff London accent which I'm sure some may find annoying.

[FredPuli43]

None, but some are incomprehensible sometimes. In Liverpool this year I thought that some Dutch men on the train were up for the Grand National, when it was just a group of scousers talking excitedly among themselves (and not in Dutch!). And a Newcastle cabbie talking on a mobile to his friend might as well have been using a foreign language.

This is good; people should keep their local English; and at least they all have a beginner's version, closer to regular pronunciation, which they use when speaking to outsiders.In this region, it's a shame that the East Anglian dialects are dying out. Norfolk folk rarely say 'How are yew awl tah-gether?' when they're asking about you alone,not a group, describe a large, troublesome, woman as 'a slummacking grate mawther', or 'tricolate up a shed' (it means to do it up, repair it).

[Cockneycarl]

You've just reminded me of Birmingham, they honestly sound very slow and to be quite honest thick (I know they're not, my loveable sisters a brummie, lol)
Somerset sounds farmery buy it's kind of grown on me

Lol, just reminded of Lee mac on accents ( WARNING may nsfw and contains strong language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQmsidGW-WA

[tonyav]

Slow and thick LOL, from a cockney.

[Cockneycarl]

That's what i said tonyav, hopefully i didn't offend you and what do mean from a cockney? It's the creme de la creme of the British accents and globally recognisable and sounds very smart, confident and strong.

[tonyav]

Yeah, righto I've watched Eastenders, why are there no T's pronounced in cockney speak.

[hc4361]

Cockney sounds smart? You're having a laugh.

I don't know what you mean by 'country folk'. A Suffolk farmer sounds very different from a Yorkshire farmer, who sounds very different from a Cornish farmer etc.

[FredPuli43]

Does anybody call it cockney any more? The term seems to have died out among Londoners, except when they are talking to tourists. They will tell tourists that they're 'cockneys' but don't otherwise call themselves, or their speech, 'cockney' or 'a cockney accent'. The old, true, cockney, died out years ago.

[Cockneycarl]

Tonyav, you think cockneys talk like eastenders? That's like me thinking that all country folk live life like on Emmerdale or Corrie isn't it?
Hc4361, i mean any non london dwellers.
Fredpuli43, my dads a cockney, his dad was a cockney and my kids will be cockneys, what exactly do you mean by true cockney? pearly kings and queens?

[tonyav]

Are you saying they ain't proper cockneys in EE.

[naomi24]

That dreadful nasal scouse accent, as spoken by Paul O'Grady and Cilla Black, grates on me.

[heathfield]

Accent? What accent? I'm sure I don't have one! ;-)

Actually, the affected accents of Edinburgh's Morningside and Glasgow's Kelvinside I consider to be pretty deplorable. "The two trem kers colleyded with a terrible smesh."

[tinkerbell23]

None really. I have a glasgow accent people probs hate?

My ex had a bristol accent... Loved it. I love geordies too. And irish lol.....i probobly hate posh glasgow accents (yes they do exist) xx

[woofgang]

Nothing, it strikes me as worse than race prejudice.

[tonyav]

Posh Glasgow Accent tinks, wot like Rab C nessbit do you mean lol.

[Maydup]

You know you're provoking a heated debate by starting a thread on this topic Carl. People will natural defend their regional accents as will you.

You're gonna need to be able to take it, as well as you can give it aaat, my old china.

[tinkerbell23]

Rab c dosent bother me LOL i understand him very well. ;0> xx

[Cockneycarl]

"Nothing, it strikes me as worse than race prejudice."
This surely the most ridiculous thing i've ever read in my whole life.
You think an annoying accent which we laugh about and take the p*** about is as bad as the infernal hatecrime racism which has injured and killed millions? Really?

[Kiki-frog]

tinks - I agree with you about the Brizzle accent. I find it really attractive too.