Moving away and how it's changed your speech.

I've been caught by the whole lunch/dinner thing so many times that I now insist people be sensible and give times in 24 hour format.

I seem to be retaining my pretty non-existent accent (at least according to Irish people anyway). I still speak pretty much how I have always spoken.
 
Going up north I think I picked up a bit of an accent, as I realised I wasn't sounding like I used to before. Coming back though it's normal though, but I'm sure I've gone through a few different phases. At one point I was even sounding posh, still do sometimes lol.
 
only lived in cornwall 2 years so still very northern , same with the other yorkshire guys at work ,not something i want to loose ,not that i want to go back to live there :)
 
Interesting about dinner ladies. Why have we always called them dinner ladies instead of lunch ladies. We're giving our children a terrible education.

We had dinner assistants in our school as well. They dressed up like a cleaner and stood around arranging lines and making sure we behaved ourselves.
 
Lived in Glasgow for going on 6 years now... still not lost my Surrey accent... still get called posh ******* :D

I do occasionally catch myself saying aye and wee but it sounds odd :p
 
Moved from Northern Ireland 5 years ago, to Glasgow first for a year and then Edinburgh for the remainder.

The Glasgow year didn't affect my accent but being in Edinburgh has massively affected it in terms of my Northern Irish accent getting very weak.

A new guy started in my work from about 10 miles from where my mum lives in NI, and he almost didn't realise I was from there at all.

If I get angry or animated whilst talking the accent comes back however, and comes back strong lol
 
Coventry never had much of an accent, and neither does where I am now, so my speech hasn't changed a great deal.


Still bath and grass instead of barth and grarse though, and I have to stop myself saying chip batch instead of chip roll/bun/cob or whatever people actually use around here.
 
As a toddler up untill around the age of 9 i had a New Zealand accent, that slowly morphed into a Welsh Valleys accent up untill i joined the RAF at 17. I still have my Welsh twang, though I conciously tone it down to make myself easily heard. Though after a few pints, or 5 minutes in the company of my Welsh friends, the taff accent comes rushing back!
 
adolf hamster said:
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.
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My 6-7 year old nephew has an indescribable accent - having lived in both Somerset England and Egypt and now been at school in Northern Ireland for almost a year there is quite a mix of influences and inflexions to the way he speaks.
 
Freefaller said:
:mad: NO! :p

Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner (or Supper) :p

Or

Breakfast / Elevenses / Lunch / Tea / Dinner / Supper / Midnight snack :D
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You forgot second breakfast! ;)

I'm originally from Essex, spent 5 years in East London and have been in Herts/Beds for the past three.

I still don't sound like I'm from Essex :p

My eldest daughter (born in East London) has my lack of accent.

My youngest daughter (born in Herts) manages to affect an Essex/East London twang.

Also, despite the title of this thread the OP seems to be more about adopting/losing colloquialisms or affectations than accent :)
 
I'm originally from Kent, lived in Wales for 20 years, then lived in the Midlands for 10 years.
Midlands has probably had the least impact on my accent, it's sort of a blend between South East England and South West Wales if such a thing exists!

If we are talking about colloquislisms then mine are almost exclusively Welsh in origin with the odd exception (such as using Doris occasionally when referring to women)
 
Muban said:
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.
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Saved me writing my post - I experience this, for the same reason.
 
I'm from the south-east of Scotland and I've always said lunch and dinner.

I probably dropped a lot of my local speech when I went to Edinburgh University even though it's the city I was born in and grew up near to. It is a notoriously private-school, middle-class university, as far as the statistics go. One article I was reading in a paper recently said the city centre may as well be "the most northern suburb of London".

I'm still noticeably Scotch, I just speak clearly and intelligibly.
 
From the westcountry, but now living near London. My accent is going, but comes out good and proper like when I get angry, or drunk, or angry drunk.

I'm working in Bristol a lot lately and its like putting on an old comfortable familiar pair of shoes. All gert tra-ors and lush graas and that.
 
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