Accents/ dialects or whatever you call it.

[Lorns]

Got chatting to a Brummie geezer today! This guy could of had all the A levels and Diplomas and Phd's in the world yet his accent made him sound as thick as shit.

I'm a sucker for a Geordie and Oirish accent. Anyone with either of those accents could sell me an empty crisp packet.

[Col]

If I had a pound for every time someone has told me "I love your accent" in the two and a half years I've lived in England, I'd have enough to move back to Norn Irn and buy a house there.

[Jovis]

I dislike a Glaswegian accent (probably spelt wrong, I mean one from Glasgow) but only female ones interestingly. I do like Edinburgh accents though, especially female ones. Most peculiar.

[Gluben]

I do wonder how people from other parts of country think my voice sounds, because I don't think I have an accent. I'm "normal" apparently...

[Nick Harvey]

Got chatting to a Brummie geezer today!

I just love the Birmingham and Black Country accent.

Must come from years of working up there and talking to them on the phone. Come back Sue of Sutton on your payphone, all is forgiven.

After all these years, I can still just slip into it at the drop of a hat, though 'er indoors can't tell Black Country from Liverpool.

Did you hear about the guy from West Bromwich who bought the kind slice he was living in?

[tvmercia]

Got chatting to a Brummie geezer today! This guy could of had all the A levels and Diplomas and Phd's in the world yet his accent made him sound as thick as shit.

I'm a sucker for a Geordie and Oirish accent. Anyone with either of those accents could sell me an empty crisp packet.

so says the person who doesn't know the difference between accents and dialects

there are only two things worse than an ugly sounding accent, and that is people who are stupid and mistake one accent for another (e.g. yam yam with brummy or mackam with geordie) and actors and v/o artists doing terribly bad impressions of an accent.

north wales, deepest darkest yam yam, stoke and mackem are particular un-favourites of mine. oh and bbc news' scotland correspondent john morrison's accent used to really really irritate me. to the point where i'd have to change channel every time he came on. google reveals he was from the western isles. thank gawd hes gone.

[lewsnews]

There's always been a debate around dialect, and spelling and of course we all tend to write in SE mainly because of Oxford and the OED which set a precident for the rest of the nation, but it's interesting to see that some archaic language is still used in various parts of the UK today!

According to one theory there is a triangle with RP (A.K.A BBC English, or the Queen's English) at the top followed by the posh Scots, Welsh and Irish dialects.... after that it is presumed dialects from rural areas such as the south west, and yorkshire with at the bottom urban dialects such as Brummie, Geordie and Cockney.

Coming from Devon I completely understand what Bill Bailey is getting at in his 'Part Troll' stand up!

[stu]

I hate the Lincolnshire accent. Now that makes anyone sound dim, especially when they keep saying "oh right" after everything you say (as they do round here) in a way that sounds sarcastic and disinterested, but it's actually normal.

I speak a healthy mix of brummie and yam yam with out being too broad.

[Gluben]

Coming from Devon I completely understand what Bill Bailey is getting at in his 'Part Troll' stand up!

Being from the West Country, he must be used to people joking about his accent. Everytime they speak, I always think they're going to start off with "You got yer". They always do! It's funny when you hear them describe something technical: "You got yer keyboard, you got yer bluetooth headset, you got yer 17-inch widescreen high definition display..." In any other accent, it would sound fine, but the West Country do it the best!

[Katnap]

I've got a bit of an unlovely 'Noh-in-num' twang. Thankfully, it's not the full-blown accent, which is horrid (especially when spoken by women with screechy voices). Apparently, it's one of the hardest English accents to 'do' - which is probably a good thing.

I don't really speak Nottinghamese, either - as far as I'm aware. Well, I have never, ever greeted anybody with "ay oop me duck" at any rate.

Although, when I was in Australia, I kept being told that I sounded "cute". Nothing like being in a foreign land, eh?

[Lorns]

I'm not very good at immitating other accents. I had my friends rolling about with laughter today trying to speak in a Scots and Oirish accent. The only foreign tongue i am good at immitating is Welsh, but then that is because i spent years taking the piss out of my dad. Oh and apparently i can do a passable Brummie accent. So sounding dumb must just come naturally to me.
Better start polishing up on my Scouse for the hattrick.