Accents

My accent changes depending on who I'm talking to. I have a very clear public school British accent when I'm talking on the phone at work (A result of being on our school's public speaking team and my mum's convent school upbringing rather than going to a public school, my school was pretty scummy) but when I'm chatting to chavs in the pub I acquire a horrible chav twang and all the stupid phraseology that comes with it, know what I mean bruv?

Generally though, I have a pretty standard south east England middle class accent. I do find some Americans on Xbox Live can't understand a word I say but that's probably as much to do with being drunk as my accent.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

I imagine a load of the #xblive crew I've played with would say I have quite a strong accent, but in terms of England it's a fairly standard accent I'd say. Thankfully I've avoided picking up the accents of the local areas I've lived. When I was younger I lived in an area with a horribly common and chavy accent, and now live in an area known for having a bit of a country-bumpkin accent (though it's a student heavy town and so it's a real mix of accents really).

Yeah, you sound pretty much like everyone in the south of England. If you knew the area I imagine you could tell you and me weren't quite from the same place but I'd have thought it would be the actual language used rather than the accent that distinguished us. The rural areas of Sussex have as much of a bumpkin accent as you get in the west country only slightly different and with different odd words thrown in. It's also all frightfully middle class round here though so everyone naturally speaks pretty well. There's quite a lot of local variation though. I reckon I could tell between someone who was brought up in Lewes and someone raised in Newhaven and that's only about 8 miles down the road (And full of scummers).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Cameo

I hate you.

Honestly though, I genuinly dislike all accents north of Lancashire, and south of Scotland.

North of Lancashire? More like north of Watford...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.