Your first job was at Battersea dogs home?

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:11, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I wish
That would have made things easier.

It was in Stockport and they speak so weird...
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:14, Reply)

There are parts of England that you know well...
...that I shall never see. Is it true that all dreams come true in Greater Manchester?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:18, Reply)

Yes, appart from one:
PLEASE, PLEASE, STOP RAINNING, PLEASE, JUST ONE DAY, PLEASE!!!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:26, Reply)

"It can't rain all the time"
do people still watch The Crow, or is it all Twilight nowadays?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:29, Reply)

I do
love it.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:32, Reply)

Drive up to Glasgow
and have a chat to the locals there. Then you'll hear weird :)
( Kroney, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:19, Reply)

Ooo!
Or visit Vipros' area. They're all "Erllo, moi 'arndsome" down that way.
( Kroney, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:21, Reply)

you'd be surprised how much they aren't like that at all

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:22, Reply)

People say that about Dorset
but I speak with (what I think is) a reasonably neutral accent.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:23, Reply)

It's a shame, that
the West Country has one of my favourite regional accents. Seems to be the way of things, though.
( Kroney, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:25, Reply)

In Dorset?
Yes, I would recommend it to anyone
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:25, Reply)

I was born there
I don't live there though, haven't been back for a couple of decades.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 17:02, Reply)

I probably wouldn't be
the old accents are all being lost. Ours was one of the first to go :(
( Kroney, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:23, Reply)

I know a few proper Devon types
but loads of people have moved into the area, either grandparents, parents or (like me) themselves, so most of my mates have fairly neutral accents.

I only found out the other day though that saying "sweet" to mean good is a Devon thing. Correct me if that isn't the case.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:28, Reply)

We used to have a softer version
of the west country in surrey/hampshire and places. Seems to have died out completely now.

I thought "sweet" was an Americanism, to be honest.
( Kroney, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:33, Reply)

I got it from the film Blue Juice I think
most of my mates say it and have been since way before Dude where's my car
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:37, Reply)

You think that's weird?
Try Aberdeen, and the outlying areas.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:23, Reply)

I knew a girl from Aberdeen once
she didn't sound that bad, to be honest. My dad's parents were Glaswegians though, so I think I'm more used to it than most round this way.
( Kroney, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:26, Reply)

I lived in Derby for a few years
And due to my undiluted Glasgow accent, the amount of folk who thought I was a head stomping psychopath was shocking. I eventually had to tone it down, mainly due to never being understood first time, stopped saying 'aye' and 'naw' and having at least one 'fuck' in every sentence. It did, in a weird way command respect and folk would be very friendly, if not overly friendly in attempt to stave of the brutal beatings they thought I was about infilct.

It wasn't until I moved there I realised just how much I swore and how scummy it sounded. Well mainly when I came back up here for a visit and heard the aggressive, machine gun like vocal attacks all around me that it really hit home.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:37, Reply)

It's not the accent as such
it's the association with vicious stakey attacks.
( Kroney, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:40, Reply)

You talkin tay me ya wee fud?
*reaches for open razor*

The thing about Derby, was they had no discernable accent, just a wishy washy amalgam of mediocrity.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:42, Reply)

Doesn't sound clever, does it
"Duhhhbeh"
( Kroney, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:49, Reply)

Come ahead ya fandan

(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:51, Reply)

Yees
but my knowledge of English is better now. I didn't know much those days, and it was all London proper English.

I can do with Scotish just about right.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:28, Reply)