Kix

I teach my son to speak Geordie, it really annoys his mother!

Blue Cat

scrubbedexpat141

Lucky you.

Blue Cat

why do you say that, you have never heard me talk, no if Meow had said that

Kix

I like your accent, maybe a bit mackum but....

Meow

Your voice changes on who you are with. Ordinarily there is just a hint of Geordie, but put you with someone with a broad accent and you get broader and broader! And you have a posher radio voice too!

Blue Cat

tally ho ha ha ha you are right though

Meow

Perhaps I should have told winter that the accent comes from all those years in the Pony Club?

scrubbedexpat141

Your kids having no accent - lucky.

winter

Nobody has answered my question, where do posh people get their accents from, where did it originate? is it because people aspire to talk like the queen, sorry, i am really interested, having just watched 36 episodes of made in Chelsea

Meow

I have actually given you two answers.

Theseus

IMHO I think the "posh" accent is a hybrid from the the Clipped english of the early 20th Century upper classes and the passing down from the aristocracy of feudal britain during the industrial revolution to the new middle class as they started to become upwardly mobile. Now it gets passed on in school, usually public school.
So if you send your kids to a school like eton or marlborough etc they will probably end up talking like they just stepped out of Made in Chelsea. Even if you talk speak like an east end barrow boy.

Blue Cat

she has a slight American accent

scrubbedexpat141

Oh. Sorry to hear that Blue Cat.

Meow

Perhaps you'd like to tell us where common accents 'come from'? They all evolve...

It's not about 'aspiring to sound like the Queen' it's just the way people speak as that's the accent they have grown up with. Same as any accent.