Originally Posted by Steve_P (Post 10687089)

I would have experienced the exact opposite had I retained my scouse accent. There is no way I would have been hired as an air traffic controller. :eek:

As an aside I did lapse into a thick scouse accent for fun one day at work when an instructor that I knew was from around Liverpool taxied out with a student. I gave them their take-off clearance with as thick a scouse accent as I could do. The student didn't understand a word, turned the instructor and asked him if I was speaking Korean, cheeky git. :sneaky: :)

Originally Posted by Steve_P (Post 10687089)

I would have experienced the exact opposite had I retained my scouse accent. There is no way I would have been hired as an air traffic controller. :eek:

As an aside I did lapse into a thick scouse accent for fun one day at work when an instructor that I knew was from around Liverpool taxied out with a student. I gave them their take-off clearance with as thick a scouse accent as I could do. The student didn't understand a word, turned the instructor and asked him if I was speaking Korean, cheeky git. :sneaky: :)

Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian (Post 10687100)

Scouser with a job now theres a novelty :rofl: Only joking la.

Originally Posted by Steve_P (Post 10687119)

Not any more, I'm gainfully unemployed (retired). :p

Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 10687003)

My kids laugh at me if I try to mimic their Canadian accents. I shall just continue to employ the time-honoured technique of repeating myself increasingly slowly and loudly if people persist in misunderstanding my RP ;)

Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 10686925)

I wouldn't change my poncy southern accent for all the tea in China. It is a total chick magnet in Quebec. They may loathe the Brits but they adore the accent.

Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 10687500)

Souvy you're a chick magnet even when you're silent! Ask any of us.

Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 10687507)

Something has happened to my accent over the past few years....I sounded (to any of you Archer listeners, exactly like Shula) slight Midland flattened sounds with a bit of Thames estuary thrown it, for a long time. For the past ten years or so though, every English person I meet thinks I'm an Australian! I think it's where my husband and the French have been quacking away at me for years and it's just gradually changed. All very odd!

Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 10687005)

Novocastrian? Posh accent? :rofl::rofl:

Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 10687061)

FACT: Novocastrian is the guy who did the voiceovers for Big Brother in the UK. "dayyy tweeennntyy tooo in the big brother hoose";)

Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 10687500)

Souvy you're a chick magnet even when you're silent! Ask any of us.

Originally Posted by ExKiwilass (Post 10687491)

People love my accent.