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I got a lot of stick for my accent a few years ago, since I'm from Sheffield but I live in Northern Ireland. So I sound extremely different to the people that actually live here. Somehow, my sister has managed to pick up the local accent and can now switch seamlessly between the two whenever she wants. I don't know how she does it, we've only been here four years!

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I am constantly having arguments with my 2 northern friends about pronunciation. Today I wanted to buy some glasses (the kind you drink out of) and we ended up arguing instead about how to pronounce it. One of my friends is from south London like me, and one is from the north east and another from the north west, so we have quite a lot of arguments about words. Weirdly, when the guy from the north east gets drunk, he sounds properly southern.

The guy downstairs is Welsh, and I can understand him, but his girlfriend is extremely Welsh and I have trouble understanding what she's saying a lot of the time.

'Forget happiness I'm fine, I'll forget everything in time'

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The Wurzels aren't from Cumbria!

I'm fine until I've just come back to uni or just gone back home. People in Hull don't do Norfolk accents apparently... watching Mum try to work out what people have said is amazingly funny

Yeeh I know, but apparantly I talk like a farmer!

Alouette...deployer les ailes;

Alouette...plumerai les ailes.

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People always accuse me of being posh because of my accent - I'm not, I'm just southern!!

It was my aim to get rid of my accent whilst I was up here, but I'm not doing very well so far...

I have a thing for the Sheffield/Nottingham accent, any guy with the accent could talk to me about a load of gibberish and I'd listen for hours! :P

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I used to have a St Helens (or woolyback as they're known round here) accent because I used to live there but once I moved I picked up the slight scouse accent. I'm not full scouse, & I've still got some of the St Helens in me, but I have a very weird accent.

Like I don't prounce the "t"'s on the end of words, it's just habit.

No-one's getting out of here alive; this time.

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haha accents interest me, weirdly.

I think being born and raised in glasgow, means my accent is pretty strong, although i dont hear it. We once had a boy from England move to our school, poor boy didnt have a clue what we were all saying because people here speak so fast and tend to roll a sentence into one big long word.

We're such lazy speakers in these parts.

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Just remembered that my science teacher off of year eight and nine was from up north-Newcastle way. For the first few lessons I was blindly confused as to what she was going on about but it was quite easy to get used to. We all used to mimic her accent a lot because she always said "bewk" and "vay-seline" instead of book and vaseline. Fun times..

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I have a thing for the Sheffield/Nottingham accent, any guy with the accent could talk to me about a load of gibberish and I'd listen for hours! :P

Get in there John! ;-)

I can't understand how people can find the French accent sexy. To me, Scottish is much better.

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I totally changed my accent when I was 10. I used to live in Warwickshire and had a full-on posh accent! When I moved to Scotland I got the sh!t ripped out of me so badly , and I dropped it pretty quickly! I'm really bad for picking up the accent of people i talk to though, i'm sure they must think I'm taking the p!ss

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