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delt1c

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Born and Bred Dowdie and proud of it.
What is this Scottish accent being mentioned, Scotland has many accents.
If I were to change it would be Geordie
 

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Funny enough, although I'm welsh, I don't have the strongest welsh accent in all fairness, but when I used to work with a colleague who had a proper full on welsh accent, I'd speak in the accent as well. Strange!

If I could have any accent, australian or south african I think

Now then, having heard you giving advice to a passenger some time in early August (if I'd realised it was you at the time I'd have said hello but I didn't :lol: ) you have a reasonably well definable accent :)

Having given the matter some thought, I could probably cope with being a Geordi
 

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:lol: Wow! I have my own unique accent! :|;)

I'd find that a bit scary tbh :|

I know someone who grew up with a Welsh/English* Mum and an Irish Dad in Scotland. He has the weirdest accent ever; it sounds like you've merged all the UK accents into one. Slightly more Scottish, of course, but your parents do influence your accent.

(* Yes, I can tell the difference between them; she has a mix of both).
 

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I wouldn't want a different accent, just a more broad version of the one I've got; I'm from Lancashire (Preston) but most people I speak to can't really work out where I'm from unless I make it really obvious. It's possibly because whilst I'm from Preston, none of my relatives are so it's a sort of Derbyshire/Surrey/Lancashire hybrid :???:
 

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The Geordie accent (from Newcastle and only Newcastle) is one of many North Eastern accents. Personally, I prefer the softer Northumberland accent or the South Durham/North Yorkshire cross found around Darlington (think Vic Reeves).

I drift between Yorkshire, Mackem, Cov and Brummie due to the combination of brought up in/studied in/lived in/worked in locations.
 

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Now then, having heard you giving advice to a passenger some time in early August (if I'd realised it was you at the time I'd have said hello but I didn't :lol: ) you have a reasonably well definable accent :)

aww christ someone knows who I am *hides* haha
 

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I wouldn't want an accent, I want a voice that everyone likes listening too but can understand!
 

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(In Gentrified Southern English Accent) I do say old chaps this conversation appears to be getting a tad out of hand. I am going to make my self Tea and a Jam Scone. Pip Pip old Chap
 

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HSTfan mentioned drifting into a welsh accent. A few years back, a friend of mine who was about 17 moved from Yorkshire to Pontypool - around six months to a year later he came back up for a wedding do, and his accent was a bizarre mix of Yorkshire and Welsh!
 

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HSTfan mentioned drifting into a welsh accent. A few years back, a friend of mine who was about 17 moved from Yorkshire to Pontypool - around six months to a year later he came back up for a wedding do, and his accent was a bizarre mix of Yorkshire and Welsh!

I dont know about anyone else but I would love to hear that accent!
 

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I'd have a Nigerian accent on a white guy :lol:

Mmmmm....a Birmingham accent on a West Indian is even funnier.

On TV a few years ago the was a West Indian comedian, Charlie Brown (?), he had the broadest Yorkshire accent you could imagine!
 

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Mmmmm....a Birmingham accent on a West Indian is even funnier.

On TV a few years ago the was a West Indian comedian, Charlie Brown (?), he had the broadest Yorkshire accent you could imagine!

Charlie Williams I believe.

He also played several seasons for Doncaster Rovers.
 

Tom B

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3)Scottish. as I am half scottish this has nothing to do with it but I like it very much dont know why though!.

How can you want a "Scottish" accent - that's like saying "I'd like an English accent"?!

Mine seems to be a strange mix of South Yorkshire and Midlothian...
 
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How can you want a "Scottish" accent - that's like saying "I'd like an English accent"?!

Eh? You are aware that Scotland and England are two different countries and that we do have our own ways of speaking, right?

Away an' boil yer heed!
 
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The same can be said for nearly everything then; southern American and Northern American for instance (and in my ignorance, there are probably many more variables of the American accent, but that doesn't stop people saying 'American accent' etc.)

I know an Englishman when I hear one, a Welshman, and a Scotsman. Therefore, broadly categorised, there are English, Welsh and Scottish accents - oh and not to forget Irish.

Forgive me but I still don't really get Tom's point.
 

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He was meaning that there is no specific Scottish or English accent.

That may be true, but accents are not only local. People can identify a Scottish accent or an English accent and not know exactly where it's from. There're plenty of people who cannae tell their Teuchter frae their Weegie, but they ken it's Scots. And plenty Scots probably can't tell Liverpool from Newcastle. But they know fine well it's an English accent.
 
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