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[Half Penny Jon]

Londoners are the worst in my opinion, they sound very thick...and if you think of all the intelegent people of london, they sound all upper class and posh

I like the London accent.

Do you mean the 'cockney' accet JMD? It does sound rather thick dosent it? It extends to near where I live but not to me thank goodness.

[Sylvester]

Yes i like cockney.

I love the Essex accent.

[Chris Perkins]

Although from Kent/London myself, when I went to Northern Ireland a while ago they remarked that I sounded like Jamie Oliver. (from Essex..I suppose SE England is the same to them, and there isn't much or a difference)

I suppose when on the phone and in formal situations I sound ok, but with friends and in informal situations I can sometimes sound 'as common as mook' (as Sylvester might say)

Round here in Germany there are slightly different accents from village to village with certain words.

[Master Jmd]

It extends to near where I live but not to me thank goodness.

same with me...but we speak Slough (if 'Slough' counts as an accent), all 'init''s (isn't it)and juno wa'mean (Do you know what i mean)...amazes me sometimes

Edited October 10, 2004 by Master Jmd

[Chris Perkins]

I think those are really very general SE England things.

[Sylvester]

I think those are really very general SE England things.

Well we say "juno wa'mean"

Except with us it's a little more like; 'juno warra min?"

Have we gorra a Glaswegian on the board, anyone?

Hmm other ones would be;

pakitin = pack it in

ininit = it isn't in it.

I guess we're just lazy and run about three words into one and then miss words out.

South Sheffield have a weird habit of replacing T's with d's... like "da what?", "What's dat den?"

The Barnsley accent (gladly i don't have) is one of the most interesting.

Th'a cud sey ther's nowt reyt abaart it and that nu's tha'll probably wunda what itwor all abaaht wen alll sed an dun.

I still do. And then you get one area of Barnsley that have Essex accents mixed in with the broad Yorkshire (currently spreading throughout, i do it myself actually); it leads to some very interesting results;

So basically they speak with all the grace of the above sentence but such things as Polo's are pronounced as Powlows, and 2 as tuwe.

Alright can metamorposize in awroyt, if yer kno-ow warr mean.

So it sounds like a corrupt for of south east meets stereotypical thick Yorks accents. Quite terrible.

Luckily mine's not too bad, a hint of Yorks but i've picked up the Southern Twang with shoving w's after o's and i use long 'a's too here and there but not all of the time.

So Master JMD would be "M-ar-ster".

And Huddersfield is "Heddersfiewld"

Kewl eh?

And Chris it's "as commen as muck" real stress on the u there. We use strees u's for alot of things and miss h's off of everything (except when there's a 'u' after them), and we shove h's on front of words that should not have them e.g 'Ee's gottan haxe' (which should be Axe)