Moderating an accent

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Mine changed a lot in the SE just to make myself understood really plus friends being local etc

It was the expressions that really confused people - are you going to give me wrong was a favourite
 
I'm up in Edinburgh working with a load of johnny foreigners (actual foreigners, not scots!) and they understand me no bother. Only trouble I've had was when I went down south to uni, did't think I even had an accent until I first moved away :lol:
I try now to talk slower and that but it makes me feel so uncomfortable.
 
Qwerty said:
Na such thing as a County Durham accent. Huge difference in Consett and Darlington accents.
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By ‘huge’ do you mean ‘not decernable to anybody south of Wetherby’?

(I agree by the way)

PinzaC55 said:
It sounds like this woman finds you a bit creepy and is trying to make an excuse not to talk to you ?
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She can’t talk with her mouth full so that might be a potential solution.
 
I have to talk slowly but loud as most people I see at work are old and deaf or deafish. The rest of the people I work with just have to take me as I am.
I’ve been away nearly 30 yrs though so I guess it’s not as strong as it was

Can’t understand Scots though
 
In my previous life as an academic I had to be really mindful of my accent. I was one of about 4 people in a lab group of 14 and had to present at a lot of conferences abroad where the audience would mainly speak English as a second language.

It’s definitely carried over into my normal speech where I now don’t speak with much of an accent at all. People in Newcastle often don’t realise I’m from the North East.
 

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