youngmimesofharlem

I do.

I'm from a Yorkshire fishing town but to hear me carry on since I arrived in Vancouver you would think I was 43rd in line to the throne. My father asked me why I was 'talking like a tw*t' when I last spoke to him.

I had no idea I sounded any different and thought he was winding me up (as my father is fond of doing) but my brother suggested I should try out for the Royal Shakespeare Company such was the ridiculous change in my voice.

Anyone else turned into little Lord Fauntleroy?

dbd33

Yeah, wanna make something of it?

Oink

Nope. Maybe you have a desire to a posh person and now without social confinements you have free reign to follow your dream. That's what moving to Canada is all about.

Alberta_Rose

Ectually, ... one has been aware that one sometimes sounds "more British than the British"; ..... sometimes so much so that one is occasioned to wonder how the 'eck one normally would pronounce things back in the Old Country.....

I think it is a result of all the odd accents by which one finds oneself surrounded whilst living "abroad" as one does .....

My folks have said that I sound "Canadian" when talking to them on Skype or phone, and my SIL said she was relieved to find my accent really had not changed at all when I went back to visit!

I perceive that I am, in effect, accentuationally challenged!

bsmith

My Mrs. is starting to sound Australian?

The4BellsLondon

oh no - not the rising inflection at the end of every sentence, whether or not is is a question? eh?

ann m

I seem to be spending 60% of my (new job) working day speaking to people who's first language is NOT English.

Therefore my English accent these days is terribly proper and pronounced and correct - and slow - and my new boss is taking the mickey out of me for sounding so terribly English. (She is a Brit from Hertfordshire who has lived here for 30 years so her accent is a bit all over the place.) But I think this has been a slow morph over the past few years anyway as I amend my vocabulary and my voice so as to be understood.

I'm a Surrey girl that can swing from (copying my husband's) saff lundun accent (don't tell him I said that!) to almost posh. Depends on situation, company and amount of vino collapso consumed.

fledermaus

My accent is pretty peculiar. I can speak proper like, received pronounciation and all that but I tend to talk in a muddle influence by whomever I am talking to at the time.

When I was in England people used to ask me where I was from and guess at Irish. Here they think I am Scottish

Planet Fled accent I suppose.

JGK

The change in my accent started long before I ended up in Canada.

Originally from the North East (Sunderland) I went to University in Surrey where my accent mellowed in order to be understood by the home counties set.

Most of my UK working life was spent in East Anglia/Cambs so a bit more of the accent was lost.

Then on to Canada and Quebec where i worked for a company staffed by most of the world's nationalities so my accent mellowed even more. The same happened in Ontario and now Saskatchewan, My speech is slower and the accent more BBC North East than an extra from Auf Weidersen Pet.

Alberta_Rose

Ah, you might be on to something there ..... my ESL patients often say they find me easier to understand than they do a Canadian! ... hmmmm ....

jericho

When I arrived, conscious of my manc accent, I tried to speak a bit more slowly, enunciate my words better etc.
Now I just cant be arsed so I speak the way I normally speak, innit.

Oink

I don't have an accent. I'm English and this is how words spoken in English are meant to sound when they are pronounced correctly.

bsmith

....if you speak slowly and have a manc accent you're just gonna sound pissed surely?

Partially discharged

Are you Jeremy Clarkson in disguise?

Atlantic Xpat

Ah yes, if you are having trouble in placing my accent, it's culture.

Despite growing up in East Anglia and living and working for 14years in Essex, I have a pretty much RP accent, although I can do Estuarial English when required (innit). I was once asked by a colleague in Essex whether 'when yer pissed, do you stop talking all posh and tawlk like us then?' to which I replied, 'no, dear boy, when I'm in my cups, I get even posher'. He called me a banker or some similar term......

I don't believe that my accent has changed much in the 5 years or so I've been here. North American's still get a kick out of it....'Gee I just luuurve your accent!'. What I am concious of doing, is using local idioms and manners of speaking. Friends and colleagues find it amusing when a, very, British bloke talks about what's 'On the go', 'Clewing something up' and other such Newfisms. Err 'By'.