I don't care if you think I'm provincial it's just the way it seems to me. People with regional accents just sound more down to earth and easygoing to me.

I apologise if you thought I was calling you provincial. I wasn't. I was speaking generally.

I agree! People always assume I'm a snob and I'm posh when they first me and it's annoying!

I think it's crazy if people judge people on their accent!

It's ok Livia and I totally get your point. All I'm saying is rightly or wrongly I read people by their intonations and sounds they make just as I would read a person by body language. When I speak to someone with a regional accent I automatically have a slight rapport with them at first because I speak the same.

Whether that person ends up being a nugget or not I find out after they've opened their mouths. :hugesmile:

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Well, I come from east London, so obviously I don't have an accent myself.

Haha fair enough :hugesmile: maybe regional accents are out of place for most people I certainly can't speak for the world.

How can you not have an accent? Surely everyone has an accent?

There must be something about the way you talk that gives you an identity? Are there any particular words you say or ways you pronounce things that might be different?

This topic is great it actually makes me wonder. I'd love it if the mods allowed 1 thread where people could write phonetically just so we could get a grasp of how we all talked on a daily basis.

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There's a thread where you can listen to people's accents.

I was kidding.

I don't have a strong accent, but there's a bit of cockney in there. If I'm with my family, friends tell me I sound more Jewish, but I don't know what they mean, already.

Nah then, this is what am talk'n abart!

Lol really? So I'd be allowed to voice record myself and post it on there?

Lol I don't know either.

I am actually a proper Geordie but you would be surprised how many different accents there are from up here. Charlotte off Geordie shore is not a Geordie and hasn't got a proper Geordie accent (imo) 10 minutes up the road from me is a place called Blyth again their accents are different to mine. I used to get took for Scottish when I went abroad but the funny thing is I find it very hard to understand some Scottish say from Glasgow. As for call centres well last wed I was on the phone all day getting my computer fixed firstly to someone oin the phillpines whose accent was sort of American with a kind of south African twang which I couldn't understand very well. ThenI rang someone else and it was someone with I would say maybe a Pakistani accent I was on the phone a good 2 hours to him and by the end he was flirting with me lol so I did understand him and he was very helpful.

Here you go :

http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru...l+dialect+test

Awwww hell yeh I'm going to have a crack at that :hugesmile:

Oooo might have a go when I get home.

Thankfully I didn't inherit the regional accent here, I have kind of a neutral accent

The accent here is dumb as ****. It's basically this (not Matthew Horne) http://www.channel4.com/programmes/u...ht/4od#3595840