If any of you lot met the Queen, lol, I can just imagine your best "posh" voice....

hoho

Yorkshire

Pretty much this. :)

Since I have started college i have realised i slip into different accents without actually realising, my friend for school who i was best friends with told me, and all my otehr friends.
I didnt use to, but now i would go into a bit of Cockney, Londoner, with an Italian accent (which is intentional), and sometimes Scouser. Don't ask why! Im from Surrey, quite a posh place but i talk kind of like a londoner apparently.

But working, I am more polite and all that, speaking to my friends is like a different person.

Around family and stuff I do my normal Scottish accent.
I can do Posh when I want, to make it easier for people to understand me.

I have a Welsh accent.
But then an american one as well.

Depends on who I'm with :tongue:

I do this really bad thing where is someone talks to me in a certain accent, I do it back. Like when this woman came to my grandads house and she had a baby and told me his name was zack (she had an New zealand accent so she said it like zeck) and I was like "Zeck? I love that name" in the most retarded New Zealand accent ever. I was so embarrassed.

I don't think I ever speak any different than how I usually do. No one has ever told me I do anyways.

i talk the same all the time, i don't know what i sound like really. people say i sound like i'm from london but a bit different :shrug:

At work I always have a higher tone of voice when speaking to the customers. I work on the counter and till, so i'm constantly speaking to customers. I always try and make myself sound welcoming. With friends I just speak like normal. With parents and family the same.

Some time ago I saw Sky Newsreader, Stephen Dixon and his guest were talking about local accents.
Dixon said he was from North (Cumbria?) and said "I do not speak like this when I am at home."

So it is quite obvious lots of people on public figures, like him or politicians, show business people must adapt standard or posh accents for the obvious reason.


The other day I saw a young actress called Michelle Keegan from Coronation Street was making a speech at the British Soap Award 2010 when she won a award.
I was quite surprised she was still speaking with the local accent.
I would have thought actors/actress would be able to speak at least standard accent.
I thought how pity high profile night like that it was the great opportunity for her to show the world (?) that she was capable for any acting parts as she is a very good actress.
It is big difference between "do not" and "can not"

Well this thread is not about show business people nor politicians but us, TiBB members.
The answer is yes I would like to adapt speaking less heavy Japanese accent.

it's a more formal voice rather than posher especially at work cos it's work and you have to be more courteous

I do a silly spanish accent by adding an o to the end of every word when i'm on holiday.

You sound like LT's brother.

I sound like ure average Coronation Street resident normally but I sound proper manc when I argue with ppl lol.

I love that accent:hugesmile:

My voice is all over the place:tongue:

It all depends who I'm with. Sometimes I speak posh, other times common, some people I've met on holidays abroad say I sound welsh but I just can't see any welsh sounds in my voice at all :laugh: