Good Evening

[choux]

I am not a frequent poster here, but tonight it has occurred to me what you all sound like. I see some posters are very frequent and it has made me wonder if I would find your voices interesting enough to want to pursue a conversation with you. Please indulge me ;)

[jim360]

A sort of weird fusion between South and North -- I was born in London but raised in Leeds, by a father from Somerset and mother from the East Riding, both of whom moved around so much that they tended to lose any regional accent.

My younger brother does sound like he's from t'north though.

[mikey4444]

I have lived in South Wales since I was 15 and I am 63 next birthday. I was born in London but moved to very rural Somerset when I was 9. So in my early years in Swansea my accent was all over the place ! But my friends tell me that I am now broad South Wales. Not exactly the classic Valleys but a bit posher than that apparently !

[The Builder]

" It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him"

..................... GB Shaw; Pygmalion

[mikey4444]

Very true Builder !

[stuey]

It's amazing how such a small country can have so many accents, dialects, and word usages/spellings. I imagine that quite often people at one end of the street kinna ken wot folk at tother end be gobbin aboot:)

[andy-hughes]

I live in Stoke, and my parents were both born and brought up here, but none of us has the local accent, which is quite distinctive.

I have no idea where my accentless voice comes from, but no-one outside or inside my area can place where I come from.

I am told that my phone voice is attractive - one lady thought I must look like Clive Owen based on the sound of my voice - sadly I don't!

[cupid04]

I'm from Southend Essex but I speak proper and don't drop my H's!

[stuey]

Cupid04, perhaps you don't drop your "H's"; however, you did manage to drop an "ly":)

[cupid04]

Essexly??? lol!

[stuey]

Yep, that's exact what I meant. Anyway, I don't have an axcent: it's you lot that have bleedin' arccents:)

[jourdain2]

I was born, raised and lived in Yorkshire until 2002 when I went to live in France. My normal accent is not, however, very Yorkshire - possibly because my mum was Scottish and very particular about pronunciation. You can certainly tell that I am a Northener - except in a lot of the North where I am often asked where I come from and have been accused of being a Southerner!

[shaneystar2]

I have a slight Norfolk accent as I was born in Norfolk but it's been ironed out after living in many other places .Moved back to Norfolk when we retired and I think it may be getting worse :)

[DTCwordfan]

well Mikey doesn't come across as a man of the valleys....

Listening to a wedding video where I gave the opening speech, I thought, "Christ, I'm listening to David Starkey" - may be Mikey could comment on that.

[EcclesCake]

I have a fairly neutral south of England accent. It varies from casual or formal depending on who I am speaking to.

I can say with total confidence that there is no ABer who would have me 'a quivering' by voice or appearance, shuddering on the other hand........

[DTCwordfan]

True on both accounts ^

[choux]

Thank you all for your contributions. Retrochic - I am in RoI at the moment, travelling around, which is why I have only just returned to my thread. It was the Irish accent that we have been enjoying currently that prompted my question. No offence to Northern Ireland ;)

[-SharonA-]

Hi choux,
I'm a proper cockney. Here are some brass tacks about me, at the mo I have not got to duck and dive as I am retired but I am still cream crackered. It must be going up them apple and pears all the time.
I've been known to be a little marble and conkers!! and deffo Brahms and Liszt!!