Changing the accent


North East accents sounds shite on TV.
Mackem is the hardest to understand outside of Eshington, as we seem to talk much faster and pronounce less than our Geordie cousins imho, especially the rough arsed town end version.

Geordies sound like baboons.
Imagine if the BBC weather girl was from Pennywell.

'ere, the sun ill be shinin' the morra, divvin worry about takin' yer jackit for the day, its ganna be like 18 degrees, for the morras wether tune in t'the BBC, prolly about arf six agayne.

Can you imagine anyone getting anywhere in life speaking like that ? Of course people tidy up there accents, happens all over the UK.

Isn't that dialect rather than accent?
 
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North East accents sounds shite on TV.


Geordies sound like baboons.


Isn't that dialect rather than accent?
Which is clearer to a southerner?
Howay, are wa gannin doon tha toon
Or
Haway, are wa garn owa the town?
I’d suggest that the Sunderland version tends to run into one long word, and people are more used to Geordie words due to famous TV Geordies.
 
Know what else I cant abide? A posh north east accent. On a bloke especially. You dont have to speak like a pit yakka or a charva but when you hear a uni accent or posh accent with NE undertones it makes my skin crawl.
 
We lived in the Middle East for 12 years and our accents never changed.... mostly because we didn't make a conscious effort to change them.

Once of my mates got off the plane in Dubai and was talking like an absolute bellend by the time he reached passport control.

Pure cringe.
 
Which is clearer to a southerner?
Howay, are wa gannin doon tha toon
Or
Haway, are wa garn owa the town?
I’d suggest that the Sunderland version tends to run into one long word, and people are more used to Geordie words due to famous TV Geordies.

Am gannin oot with wor Jackie v Am garn out with our Jackie

Definitely agree on the last point.

Again though, all of this is dialect.
 
People move around the country or world and converse with people who have different accents – their accent changes as a result.

It isn't intentional most of the time.
 
My Mam and Dad took a pub. The Shepherds Inn. It was a basic drinking hole for miners really.
When we first moved in , bloke was moping around in the bar, miserable as fuck.
My Dad (a Yorkshireman) asked another local what was up with him. This bloke said, in a broad Hetton accent, " AW, nivver mind him. He's on tubloaden, and got a pyat like a smacked arse"
Dad looked at me dumbfounded, I looked at him and we both thought what the fuck did he just say? 🤣🤣🤣
 

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