Moving away and how it's changed your speech.

Mr Gimp said:
I've lived in Somerset my entire life bar a few years in Portsmouth, my old man is from Stoke and my Mum from Birmingham.
I sound fairly neutral most of the time until my inner Wurzel slips out and I also have some odd pronunciations for things too. Crumpets = Pikelets for example. Oh and I love Oatcakes but people here think I'm a weirdo.
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I thought pikelets where kinda of a small, thin crumpet? I'm sure I have had them before.
 
I find it odd when the southerners(cockneys) move up north and expect us to change our way of accent because they can't understand us:confused:

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Hedge said:
I have lived outside of the North for a while now and although I try my best to stay true to myself and hold my accent, I now find myself saying Lunch instead of Dinner.

I feel like I've let myself down :D.

So, To the people who have moved away from their hometown, what changes have you experienced? Do people notice?
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I am a hardcore gamer, as a result, i speak with many people from all over Europe online, i speak to them far more than anyone else.

I tend to really pick up accents easily, as a result my accent is something strange that nobody can guess, a mix of accents you can say.

Everyone wonders where i am from if i speak to random people at the pub etc, guesses tend to be from everywhere most of the time, i dont think one country is mentioned more than any other.

At this point, i refrain from speaking other languages than english.

Ideally i want an accent like james bond, not sure which actor but before i go the USA again i will watch one bond film maybe twice a day for 1 month.. Because USA girls.... yea well epic easy its unbelievable.
 
kinobestew123 said:
Usually the discussion will be in context too. For example, if someone comes into a chip shop and asks for a chip cob, it's quite obvious that they're after chips on a "cloud like roll" rather than somehow mushing chips into a corn on the cob. Or if they ask for a chip muffin, they clearly aren't after chips placed into a choc chip sweet muffin!

Same as with lunch and dinner, if at 12.30pm somebody at work says they're going for their dinner. It's in no way acceptable to act like you have no clue what they mean because you think of it only as lunch.
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'cloud like roll' I like the sound of that :D.

You would think what you said was true, but I think it was In Manchester I asked for chips and a tcake without thinking and when i opened the box it was a current bun with chips inside it lol. The person behind the till probably knew what i meant but was just being a ****.

I always try to look at the price list to see what they call it as it seems to change wherever I am working.
 
I came back to the UK in November after spending two years in Canada and I probably get asked where my accent is from about once a week :eek:

I've definitely brought some phrases back with me :p
 
I've got the worst of all worlds. Originally from Kent, work in Brum.

People from home say I speak too northern and people up in brum say I talk like a posh ******
 
Asked my mum about his last night. I moved from North to South London when I was 10, and my mum said even at that age she noticed a difference in my speech after a while.

South became saaf, that sort of thing. Didn't think there would be a difference between north and south London, but apparently so.

Never use my normal accent in job interviews and the like. Just too common.
 
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