Do you have a regional accent that doesn't belong to the area you live in?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Apparently my accent puzzles listeners occasionally.
I am an English Channel coast native and resident, and Northern English would correctly say from my voice I am Southern. Yet I have traces of Midlands as my parents were from a Midlands city 200 miles to the North - but traces possibly only noticed by other Southerners.
I recollect a family friend once asking my Dad about my accent.
Dad replied, "We're not sure either! It's a mixture of Hampshire and Nottingham!"
I remember too when my sister was about five and she and her friend were playing in a sand-pit in the garden. Our Mam and I were very amused to overhear them earnestly discussing whether they were making sand-castles (sister) or sand-carstles (the friend). Yet both girls were Southern-born!
I am an English Channel coast native and resident, and Northern English would correctly say from my voice I am Southern. Yet I have traces of Midlands as my parents were from a Midlands city 200 miles to the North - but traces possibly only noticed by other Southerners.
I recollect a family friend once asking my Dad about my accent.
Dad replied, "We're not sure either! It's a mixture of Hampshire and Nottingham!"
I remember too when my sister was about five and she and her friend were playing in a sand-pit in the garden. Our Mam and I were very amused to overhear them earnestly discussing whether they were making sand-castles (sister) or sand-carstles (the friend). Yet both girls were Southern-born!