My parents
My parents were living in the East End of London when I was born, and had the Bow Bells still been ringing I would have been a Cockney.

When I was 13 months old they emigrated to Yorkshire, taking me with them. As my mother is a Lincolnshire lass and my dad a Southerner, I grew up with a soft Yorkshire accent so when I am up North I am asked if I am a southerner and when down south I am asked if I am a northerner. I usually explain the above except when I am not asked politely and then I just tell them that I am a Cockney and that confuses them no end.

These days I live in Norfolk.
(whiskas loved by 8 out of 10 cats, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 18:28, 2 replies)

Seems you and I swapped places.
Dad being from London, Mum from Barnsley and I was born in Norfolk. I now live in Wakefield.

My accent changes mid-sentence sometimes.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 2 Apr 2010, 22:12, closed)

Ha, beat this!
When I was young I had a bunch of severe ear infections which ruptured both eardrums and left me completely deaf during the years when language and speech is being formed in the brain.
When I was able to hear again, I spoke in my own unique accent that has never left me.
Everywhere I've lived people have asked me where I'm from.
They guess things like "Russian?" "German?" Nope. I just talk funny.
(TheWonderfulWombat It came to me in a dream., Mon 5 Apr 2010, 8:15, closed)