Film, Media & TV2 mins ago
Accents.
7 Answers
We went with friends to a particular tearooms in the forest for afternoon tea.
As we were leaving I got collared by a waitress. She said "I know your accent, its Salford, Swinton or Pendlebury. I was amazed. I was born in Salford, moved to Pendlebury when I was three.
Accent adulterated a bit by Five years in Rochdale, twenty plus in Warwickshire and thirteen in the forest.
How can people do this?
As we were leaving I got collared by a waitress. She said "I know your accent, its Salford, Swinton or Pendlebury. I was amazed. I was born in Salford, moved to Pendlebury when I was three.
Accent adulterated a bit by Five years in Rochdale, twenty plus in Warwickshire and thirteen in the forest.
How can people do this?
Answers
1 to 7 of 7
Best Answer
No best answer has yet been selected by Caran. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.
When I was 19 I was working in an Ipswich pub during the summer vacations. A stranger came in and we got talking about accents. He said "Southerners can never tell the difference between Yorkshire and Lancashire accents". I assured him that some of us could so he challenged me by saying: "So which side of the Pennines do I come from then?"
I tried to pretend I was really struggling for an answer and said: "Let me think. It's definitely Yorkshire. South Yorkshire, I'd say. Probably Sheffield but over on the Rotherham side. I'd guess at Attercliffe".
He looked stunned: "Ruddy 'ell. I come from Darnall, just a mile up the road from Attercliffe. How the 'eck did tha' know that?".
It was then that I had to confess that I was doing my teacher training in Sheffield, which did make my task just a little easier ;-)
I tried to pretend I was really struggling for an answer and said: "Let me think. It's definitely Yorkshire. South Yorkshire, I'd say. Probably Sheffield but over on the Rotherham side. I'd guess at Attercliffe".
He looked stunned: "Ruddy 'ell. I come from Darnall, just a mile up the road from Attercliffe. How the 'eck did tha' know that?".
It was then that I had to confess that I was doing my teacher training in Sheffield, which did make my task just a little easier ;-)
I'm not always so good at accents though. I was interviewing a lady in Cambridge recently and detected what, to me, was clearly a transatlantic accent. Knowing how upset Canadians can get if you accuse them of being Americans, I asked her which it was. "Neither", she replied, "I'm from Northern Ireland"
Oops!
Oops!
1 to 7 of 7
