Ever since moving to the Lake District a few months ago, one thing i have as of yet been unable to get the hang of is the accents round these parts!
I spent nearly all my life living in the Birmingham area even though I was born a Shropshire Lad. And fortunately – according to most locals and outsiders that I have met over the years – have not picked up a Birmingham or Black Country accent. In fact my accent is fairly neutral – not posh, but not Neanderthal either!
However, I would say the Black Country accent is pretty low down the food chain in terms of perceived intellect and verbosity. But now that I’m living in the Lake District I have a whole new accent to get used to, and to be honest I do wonder if its even remotely connected to English!
Of course some regional accents are easier on the ears, and thus easier to understand than others. The Geordie accent is quite a fun accent to listen to, as is the Cornish/Devon accents. But then on the flip side you have the Manc/Scouse/Brummie/Cockney accents, along with the awful Essex/Estuary accents – none of which my ears can tolerate for more than a few minutes at a time.
The Wiltshire and Home Counties accents aren’t too bad either, but then again you have the Yorkshire accent, and all of a sudden you’re heading towards a timewarp and going back 100 years and visions of working down’t’pit!
But right now I have to get used to interpreting things like “scran”, “lal”, “eh?”, “twine”, “gaan” and “push iron” to name but a few!
Subtitles please!!!
Nominated by Technocunt
Don’t mind accents so much, some better than others. I think since ‘wigger’ became the national accent of youth real regional accents that are not assumed for the sake of sounding street are perfectly acceptable. Wigger and Pikey are the two accents that always make my heckles rise.
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Wigger is excrable ‘street cred’ bullshit. Nowhattam sayin’ innit.
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Not convinced that all regional accents are cuntable, Techno.
Scouse however, Yes. Excruciating white noise like an off-station radio. Scousers have got “hair” and “her” arse-about-face – “Dat’s hair” (that’s her) – “Lewk at hair her” (Look at her hair)
Unbearable. Love Geordie accent though.
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I jus keep me ed down and let me feet do the torkin!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c-J5PsGHwtk
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Hahaha, great clip Bertie! Id forgotten that.😀
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Geordie my favourite too.
Know a Geordie lass, Karen – her accent alone gives me the orn.
Filthy, dirty sense of humour and laugh, and fab tits.
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I’m all for regional accents. It gives a sense of identity and traditional roots.
You should be proud of your accent, and rejoice in the linguistic native diversity of our islands.
Unless you’re Irish.
Get To Fuck.
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I once had a marathon session with a South African in a flat above a kebab shop during the men’s Wimbledon final. One condition: only Afrikaans to be spoken.
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Was it Nelson Mandela?
Morning, Krav.
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More like Eugene Terreblanche.
Up the AWB!
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Nelson’s thoughts after escaping Krav’s “love-nest”…..
https://youtu.be/xnjJZfjbUdU
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The finest regional accent that I ever heard was on a tiny, demure Chinese lassie who worked in a takeaway in Belfast….sounded just like Ian Paisley standing in the pulpit condemning Gay IRA-supporting Priests to Eternal Damnation….never heard ” You want fried rice?” bellowed with such threat and volume.
I often wondered if she did anal.
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That sounds very familiar Dick. While working in Northern Ireland in the 1980s I also popped into a Chinese takeaway just outside Belfast and had exactly the same thing – a very Chinese looking girl behind the counter with the strongest Belfast accent I had ever heard. Confused the hell out of us!
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My lovely Mrs is from Surrey she has a gorgeous soft accent I’m northern and proud of it We are fluent sadly in different languages 😄😄👍
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As the years have passed I have come to love all regional accents – Brum, Scouse, Geordie, even London!
The only accent I really hate is the one I hear revery single fucking day – Here in good old Sussex. It is as if people are taught from a young age to speak so they sound like a cross between a cockerney and some immigrant from Jamaica. They end up sounding both really rough and thick as fuck, and the sooner I move away from them the better!
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It’s very rare to hear a proper cockney on London any more. My grand-parents were proper cockneys. Cockney is not to be confused with mockney or any other sort of London accent. Mind you, so few Londoners in London nowadays, it’s hard to say what a London accent is – cross between comedy P@ki and East European probably.
I think all regional accents should be cherished before they disappear – except that Northern gobshite lezza who’s always on the TV. Cunt.
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Oh yes, and meant to say, as you pointed out, that fucking awful thing where white kids talk like dark keys – that really gets my fucking goat.
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wha ahm sayin is lark, innit bro, yoonowattameen fam, yagitme
and that’s just the little white cunts hanging around the estate stabbing each other up over a ‘teenth of weed
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Can’t stay, I’m off for a kipper tie and a biscuit.
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This is a stupid Cunting because it’s not done In an accent I don’t understand.I’d rather have my accent ,it’s your identity of where your from and I wouldn’t want to talk as though I’ve got a couple of plums in my mouth.
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Havin none of this, regional accents are great!! Love em!
Its your identities, something to be proud of, all for em!
If your miles away from home its nice to hear someone with your accent, a bond.
My accent is lovely, when im down south and talk to someone in a petrol station or summat, can tell by their wide eyed expression and white pallor they love it!!!
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My IT Guru is a geordie, we have always spoke by e-mail messaging ect but I had to go round her house once, Now its a little bit delicate because she is also self funded trans, but I couldn’t help myself laughing and had to apologise because she sounded very wo eye mon stick a ferret dan ye trousers.
I cant do accents but lets say it was totaly at odds with the word e-mails we had traded.
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I’m worried about you Lord Benny as this is not the first time that you have mentioned a relationship with a trans.
I’m sorry, but the image I have of you is of an action man!
😀😀
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I have got a black country accent and I must admit it does make me sound like a fucking thick cunt. Here’s the above sentence again phonetically for comparison. Arve gor a blak cuntri acsunt en o must admit it does mek mi saand loik a fuckin thick cunt. Thankfully typing in black and white covers a multitude of cuntishness.
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You forgot the ‘yaaa nowwuh’ M’sieur! Love ‘Black Country’ mate!
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I don’t agree, accents are what make us quintessentially British/Irish and that whole notion of nationality is constantly under attack from the leftist lamestream media and the leftist communists in the Momentum Party – sorry – Labour.
I love accents and am so attuned to their variances that I can tell the difference between a Cannock accent and the neighbouring Brummie one, and know difference in twang between someone in Alloa and one in Glasgee – san!
I’m not as well versed with the accents of the principality but know enough to know whether I’m in the north or south of the country. Same with Ireland (Northern Ireland and the Republic).
I also have a fondness for the patois of our West Indian brethren.
The worst British accent by far being – and I’m sorry but it is – the Brummie one, but I’d have everyone in the UK talking like that than have it replaced with a chippy Urdu twang, eastern bloc dooshkah-dooshkak, or Africunt clicking bollocks!
Fuck that!
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A connoisseur! Actually recognises the Clackmannan variant of Scots – a very subtle extension from generic Midlands, with a hint of hopelessness. Have you by chance ever pushed northeastward and savoured a Dundee peh?
I have a fairly good ear myself, but it gets very confused as it crosses the Pennines.
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On a personal level , the scouse accent makes my fucking skin crawl.
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Nicola Sturgeon (first among mega Scots cunts) has brought Scottish accents into disrepute.
I hate George Stark’s (David O’Hara) accent, whatever the fuck it is:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGT8Dl5T0xE
There’s a cunt who occasionally reports for the ABBC with a similar accent but worse. Makes my fucking skin crawl.
PS: No offence meant to esteemed Scottish cunters posting here.
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Jo Swinson’s accent is far worse. At least Nicola Sturgeon actually sounds like a Jock. Listening to Swinson speak I haven’t got a clue where she is supposed to be from. A bit like she was deliberately trying to tone down her Jockness so as not to alienate the rest of the Brits. Which is fucking annoying.
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True about Swinson RB, she seems to go all West Country when in full flow.
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She is Vicky Pollard.
Every time she was asked anything during the campaign it literally was answered by starting: “Yeah, but no, but yeah…”
Doss cunt!
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A very interesting bit of cunting this Techno.
It’s always intrigued me how it came about that (for example) as a Brummie, I only have to travel just a few miles up the road to Dudley or Halesowen to hear a very different take on the Queen’s English. No doubt somebody somewhere can explain it.
Being a Brummie (although my Scots missus says I don’t have an identifiable local accent) I’m loathe to criticise others, but the two that grate on my ears are the ‘day do dat don’t day doe’ Scouser, and Viz Comic’s brilliant ‘Cockney Wanker’ accent.
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Oh, and pretensious, horsey toff types posteuring with that affected, bored, superior tone and attitude. Cunts.
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If you haven’t been properly put in your place by a horsey toff ( but a clever one) you have failed to appreciate how deadly those vowels can be. There is no comeback short of physical violence, and that will merely confirm their assumption that you are an oik. And they have private health insurance.
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You’re absolutely right daaaahling, Sebastion and I will be exercising the horse’s on the public road’s this weekend after all it is Christmas, and with all that atrocious rain just you make sure you give us a wide berth you horrid little man
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What an engaging use of the apostrophe! Did you get the idea from your grocer?
….and the horse you rode in on…. 🙂
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Not going with this one. Regional accents are part of regional identity and if you can’t get on with what the locals are saying, you can fuck off. I speak as an original RP speaker (on the posh side of that, actually, my man) who has repeatedly re-adapted in order to be understood and not to reduce my hearers to fits of mocking laughter.
Also, it’s my impression that a regional sense of humour goes with the accents. Black Country humour’s very different from Aberdeen’s, and have you ever wondered why so many comedians are from Lancashire?
Keep the accents, except, as said above, wigger and snowflake. Foul London perversions that they are.
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Raasclaaat, bloodclaat, every kind ah Bombaclaaat. Me say me like di white woman and di Asian woman and di black woman, me like to tongue di ladies batty and sex di Lady after.
As you can tell one speaks rather well old chap, must dash the roads can be very busy this time of yah.
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Did some Jamaicans colonise the north east a long time ago?
I ask as they say ‘Man’ after every sentence.
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I’m afraid that was a colonial imposition in the other direction. We need to apologise for our slaveowners being unable to pronounce or remember the names of their workers and using ‘man’ as a catchall.
I am overcome with shame at the trauma inflicted by our imperialist oppression. Still, you seem to have done all right.
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Ah makes sense now Komodo, apparently Geordie is massively influenced by the Vikings. I live the regional accents and I can’t imagine a country with such a diverse accents as our wonderful island.
Any Malbec to go with your lizard diet this Christmas?
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I need to lay in a supply, B&W, and thanks for reminding me. A neighbour kindly provided a sample of her damson vodka, which will do for the liqueur course, and I have a parcel which jingles attractively, probably containing beer. My hibernation will be a happy one, I think. I hope you are similarly supplied, and with additional herbal products.
Re Vikings, a first-time hearer can be confused between Orkney and Geordie – very similar in some respects. The Viking influence gets down to Aberdeen way on the East coast, and then gets obscured by Middle Scots before re-emerging around Berwick and spilling over into Cumbria. Finally dies out in Yorkshire, but going by Dickens, was more prevalent there a couple of centuries ago. Apologies for the diversion, but it’s always interested me.
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Happy #OwenJonesisawankerday
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Id sooner have Miserables eh up chuck in me ear than incomprehensible albanian I get from my neighbour who has threatened to cut my head off in the past. All “part and parcel” of living in Khans London.
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I have a soft Daaaarrrrsetttt accent and was getting really annoyed by people who moved to the area and thought it great fun to take the piss. I don’t know why but the stupid fuckers took offence if I told them if you don’t like it fuck off back to the shitehole you came from. Sad to say but there are more outsiders than local people there now. When I moved to Lincolnshire it was quite refreshing to hear most people speaking the local dialect even though they are all a bunch of thick ignorant inbred cunts.
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Down in Bristol the proper locals all sound like pirates. My ex-husband was from the home counties so every time we went to visit his friends,they were always asking if I owned a tractor or combine harvester. It can be useful if people think you are thick though,they don’t expect much of you and it makes it easier to fuck the cunts over.
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There is a place called Langley Mill in Nottinghamshire which has a very distinctive accent; listen to Ron or Leon Haslam speak if you want to hear it.
The strangest I have heard is Clitheroe in Lancashire where they sing. Look up Jimmy Clitheroe for a dose of that.
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I know the place very well it’s a bit more distinct than Mansfield lingo but not by much a cross between Derby and Notts accents “At Up Me Duck” greeting springs to mind Good hearted Northern Folk
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Southern accents are all different some are good some not so.Having been in Colchester for more years years than I care to remember with the army I thought I was fluent nope 👎 Move over the boarder and the river into Kent and listen to their accents a cross between London and South East London and sometimes pure Pikey every sentence starts with Ya (means yes ??) Really fucking annoying I’ve found with these cunts as soon as you start to speak and it’s not Kentish ???? They think it’s open season to take the Mick on your accent as if you are a thick backward cunt. My father in law is a perfect example (South London) geezer immigrant who moved over into Kent “Oh please excuse his accent he’s northern from Nottingham” I’m actually from Mansfield he’s been overdue for a good slapping for a couple of years now pig fucking ignorant 👎
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I had some pisstakers once in Eastbourne George, loads of us, brummies, Leicestershire lads, a lad from northern Ireland, all doing a works course, ended up in a boozer few pints in this lad from London way copying my accent, at first laughed it off. Cunt kept doing it!
Biggest bloke in pub, dont know him, take the piss!
Anyway in end told him enough.
Cunt must of been backward or something.
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Just pig ignorance MNC they think they are being funny which of course they are not You should have given him a Northern Greeting a headbutt that would have smartened him up.
Southern Folk think Northern People are beneath them and treat us with contempt I won’t put up with it👍
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I was a bit puzzled to be honest George, 1 is that how i sound?
2 is he some sort of quêër who likes getting filled in?
Could see people nearby were thinking the same thing, the Irish Lad said afterwards, was gonna book him a ambulance.
Best kept away from strong drink his sort.
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Worst accent of all now is that count that reads the news on Al Beeb Radio 4. Fuck knows what his accent is. It sounds like a mix of Jamaican, Scottish and Gay. Typical Al Beeb PC shite.
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One funny thing about accents, whichever part of the country we’re from, apparently we all sound the same to the Yanks.
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Tim Weatherspoon’s accent makes him sound a right thick cunt. As does Ian Lavery’s. Then again, Lavery really is a thick cunt.
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I ‘m a londoner with a real london 50s accent, but my wife is from naaarffuck,but lived in manchester for many years so she drifts between the two accents (very confusing) and to top it all off we live in coastal suffolk? and that really is something to behold buh! (read boy).
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Lived in the East Midlands, Kent and Wales as a kid. My accent fucks with peoples minds no end. Scouser accent fine for man but on a woman is dreadful. London white kids with a black roadman accent is the bottom of a barrel full of shit.
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