So how is your accent?
May 1st 2013, 3:13 pm
#31
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Re: So how is your accent?
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. 
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.
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.
Only joking la.
May 1st 2013, 3:26 pm
#32
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Re: So how is your accent?
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.
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.
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.
May 1st 2013, 4:33 pm
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Re: So how is your accent?
My accent in mostly Stoke but I do have a sprinkling of 'aampshrrr 
I have been here for 3 years now and I have got used to speaking clearly and slowly to the cradles as repeating myself over and over again gets very frustrating.
I have been here for 3 years now and I have got used to speaking clearly and slowly to the cradles as repeating myself over and over again gets very frustrating.
May 1st 2013, 6:58 pm
#36
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Re: So how is your accent?
Conversely I found that speaking as fast as possible, ignoring all constanents and avoiding the use of long words most aids understanding. Telephone CS people still don't understand me at all...
May 1st 2013, 7:00 pm
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Re: So how is your accent?
People love my accent.
May 1st 2013, 7:07 pm
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May 1st 2013, 7:14 pm
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Re: So how is your accent?
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!
May 1st 2013, 7:20 pm
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Re: So how is your accent?
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!
May 1st 2013, 7:26 pm
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May 1st 2013, 7:28 pm
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May 1st 2013, 7:29 pm
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