Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
He does like. Hints of Irish along with American and Mackem.Lyndon Gooch has a pretty messed up accent.
Can’t imagine Kate Adie saying
“Am in Beruit and there’s hell on… bombs fleein arl ower man!!”
I've only been in London 6/7 years and my accent has changed quite a bit. Fellow northerners will recognise it but anyone from anywhere south of Leeds thinks I'm Irish, for some reason
I was waiting for a cab with my dog outside a hotel in London when a girl from Boro came over and - I assume- started trying to chat me up.I get mistaken for being Welsh regularly.
Most people's accent does dilute when they move from home. When I first moved south when I was 18 a lot of people couldn't understand a word I said but now 30 years later that rarely happens. It helps when you pick up southern terms and drop northern slang - so I now talk in terms of lunch and dinner rather than dinner and tea.
Anar, but she lived in Suddick and played doms in the Tramcar Inn and Hogan’s.She attended Sunderland High School For Girls Man! No accents there!
Nee one ‘loses’ their accent like, bairns aside. They make a concerted effort to change it. Maggots.
Aye reet.Never left Sunderland ^
Damian Aspinalls.Donna Air went from having a thick accent to plums in her gob in a few weeks iirc
I'm guilty of this myself, having lived away from the North East for most of my life since leaving home at 16. However, my friends and colleagues think my accent is very strong. On the other hand my mother thinks I'm "talking posh" when I get on the phone to her. When I get back home among my mates and having a bit crack then my accent reverts back to the original within a few minutes. I don't even realise I'm doing it, but it's nice not having to repeat myself for the benefit of others.
Can’t imagine Kate Adie saying
“Am in Beruit and there’s hell on… bombs fleein arl ower man!!”
When we moved down to Yorkshire 28 years ago, the local kids asked my two sons “ Is your dad Russian “.I don’t speak with my original NW County Durham accent. People often don’t put a particular effort into speaking with or without an accent. It just happens. It depends, often, on the accent of the people you most mix with.
My Auntie was born and bred in Consett but, to my ears, spoke with a Louisiana accent. Her neighbours in the states thought she was Scottish.
Our lass is Chinese. She speaks canny English (better than my Chinese) but her accent is terrible. Example. "It's rinning big rin so your plan can't fly" (It's raining heavily so your plane can't fly) When we're out in a group of foreigners and Chinese I just switch off. What with Russians, Serbs, South Africans.. it's nigh on impossible. Going back and sitting with my mates is like slipping into a warm bath. Being able to convey a range of emotions with the word "aye" is much underrated.Same. Left the North East when I was 21. My accent reverts back to proper Mackem when in the company of my mates back home. I teach English and my lass is Italian so can't really talk to them with my Pennywell twang otherwise I'm forever repeating mesel.
Nee one ‘loses’ their accent like, bairns aside. They make a concerted effort to change it. Maggots.
Our lass is Chinese. She speaks canny English (better than my Chinese) but her accent is terrible. Example. "It's rinning big rin so your plan can't fly" (It's raining heavily so your plane can't fly) When we're out in a group of foreigners and Chinese I just switch off. What with Russians, Serbs, South Africans.. it's nigh on impossible. Going back and sitting with my mates is like slipping into a warm bath. Being able to convey a range of emotions with the word "aye" is much underrated.
Nee one ‘loses’ their accent like, bairns aside. They make a concerted effort to change it. Maggots.
I still have a mate who hasn't grasped that "canny" doesn't mean "can't", been knocking about with him for about 7 years. Boils my f***ing piss.
I do not envy you.