simonhouse

Quick poll about your accent, the way you pronounce words!

Glaswegian

My accent varies - people I work with on a daily basis don't always recognise my telephone accent.

One guy got really confused because I "didn't have any accent at all".

simonhouse

Just to add...

I thought I was still quite British sounding, and I certainly feel very British when speaking to the locals, but when I went back to England for a holiday everybody was telling me I sounded like an American!

Now my wife has instructed me to watch Eastenders all the time just to ensure I keep my accent

Glaswegian

My problem is knowing which accent to use - I'm a Glaswegian who spent 15 years in Leicester - I'm a bit "och aye me duck".

dingbat

I have the ubiquitous Saaaarf London accent.... Can't shift that one very easily...lol

Glaswegian

Been watching Corrie??

I almost need subtitles ......

jonthelad

My accent? After 5 years it's all over the place. It always was before as I was Bournemouth born & bred but my Dad was from Yorkshire....

Apparently, I speak w/ a more English accent to friends on the phone etc but my accent slips towards Canadian when I'm playing with my kids. My Canadian wife notices this, but her mother still has some trouble understanding me and thinks I am 100% english - speakveryfastoopnorth as my dad used to say

dingbat

I haven't watched it for about two years - but I do sneak a peak at Eastenders (lmao, that is soooo bad) and I love My Family with
the ever funny "Wolfie" from the seventies....and all that BBC Canada can throw at me.

goatee

our teenager picks up words and accents more than we do

and causes laughs at home
he was running round getting ready for school yelling wheres my green pants
i am yelling you have no green pants ( underwear)
and he gave me stupid mother look as he meant trousers

i think we use certain words for ease but still use british in family
flatware = cutlery
its caused some confusion at school multiply we use x they use a . dot work that out in algebra ?


i have to spell my name over for people and they call full stops period which i dont get

i still run my Uk business by phone and email so talk proper oxfordshire english for that and grunt in canada!
haha

Glaswegian

This reminds me of my son's first week in kindergarten and the teacher came to my wife after class to tell her that our son had been "pulling his pants to his knees". My wife was utterly shocked until she realised the teacher actually meant "rolling his trouser legs up to his knees".:scared:

The excuse given by the 5year old was that the school was way too warm!

Bleech

On our recent visit we found people couldn't understand my wife's name 'Natalie'. She'd tell them (in an English accent) and they didn't have a clue what she was saying, kept on asking her to repeat it usually resulting in her having to spell it. In the end she gave up and started calling herself "Nadalee"

Glaswegian

You spread budda on your bread here ...

Grah

When we came over the four your old (Chloe) was told she has a wonderful accent, she said she didn't that the canadian had the accent. Should have seen her face. Then when the Canadian tried to tell Chloe she has the accent as she doesn't sound the same as everyone else.

There was the six of us and 1 Canadian in the subway store so Chloe said "we all sound the same and you don't, so you have the accent."

Smart mouth moo, hasn't gotten any better. She is now 10 going on 19, hair flicks and looks with all the attitude you can imagine.

oceanMDX

I recall back in University one physics prof (an expat Brit) told the class about how his children would correct his accent on words like tomato.

donglemouse

"On our recent visit we found people couldn't understand my wife's name 'Natalie'. She'd tell them (in an English accent) and they didn't have a clue what she was saying, kept on asking her to repeat it usually resulting in her having to spell it. In the end she gave up and started calling herself "Nadalee""

Interesting when I give my name as Andew or Andy - they often seem to insist that I have told them my name is Andre (often followed by some comment like where the hell are you from)

I have now had to adopt the tactic of calling myself An-dru to avoid confusion

Glad to see your post I thought I was the only one who had this problem