Moving away and how it's changed your speech.

Acme said:
For god sake...

If you have a sandwich at 1PM and a hot meal at 6PM then it is lunch and dinner.

If you have a hot meal at 1PM and a sandwich at 6PM then it is dinner and tea.

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What if I have a hot meal at 1PM, a hot snack at 3PM and a hot meal at 6PM?
 
A few years ago my missus was asked where she comes from by her younger cousins. They are all from Derry and her cousins didn't believe her (she's lived in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Newport and now in Hampshire). I find it very amusing.

My accent hasn't changed even with several years in Elgin and Newport. One is from Oxford.
 
tom_e said:
What if I have a hot meal at 1PM, a hot snack at 3PM and a hot meal at 6PM?
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Lunch, "a snack", dinner. :confused: :p

Or if you are my nan:

Breakfast
Elevenses
Snack
Tea

She replaces the word 'lunch' with 'snack' without fail. Snack-break, snackbox, snack-time news... :p
 
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South west moving to northern ireland.

Over a decade and a half and i still havent lost my accent, tis neither cornish nor northern irish, generically english i suppose, but i do speak with local mannerisms, phrases and words like "aye", " craic", "hows she cuttin?", " by the full of the blade" etc

I've also picked up the northern irish rate of speech, so i find returning to the homeland that my family speak very slowly in comparison because i'm so used to fast paced speech.
 
I reckon I've more or less lost the ability to have any particular accent from moving around too much, possibly aided by my mild speech impediment.

I can put on a mock accent, but when I speak normally I'd say that my voice is rather flat and non-regional.
 
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Obvious innit!

I do find if I spend any time around Germans speaking English with a heavy accent I start talking like them...
 
Picked up bit and bobs of various accents, can revert back to native quite easily. The rain in Spain flows mainly on tha plaaynnnn. Da dum dum.
 
Having lived all over the midlands and Ireland (north and south) it's fair to say that my accent is all over the place. I do enjoy picking up new regional phrases and do tend to pronounce them like the locals.
 
we moved from central lancashire to somerset five years ago. My accent is still very northern.

These southerners dont understand half of what I say.

Go to a bakery and ask for a t-cake.

So you want a currant bun (souther t-cake), bap or roll.

NOOOOO I want a t-cake

Or the same at the fish and chip shop. Fish chips peas and a t-cake....
 
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I've never really had a home town for that to happen. Dad was in the RAF and we moved so much that I went to 7 primary schools and 2 secondary schools. Consequently I have a fairly accentless voice and a weird mix of words that I've picked up from everywhere. Apparently though, people have told me I have a well spoken telephone voice but never seem to be able to place quite where I am from.
 
I lived in Kent until 17, Scotland for 4 years, Oxford and now the Midlands I don't have any accent from any just a plan English voice.
 
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