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@emmasfriend are you posh?

@Jacko1971
Not intentionally !
This a judgement to be made by others, as is the perception of one's accent.

Concerning accents:

When I was staying at my uncle's house in Provence, I found the local accent difficult to understand and needed to listen carefully.

Daniel, the owner of the garden business, whose men brought a tractor to cut the grass in the paddock, had a different accent from other locals.

I asked a neighbour where he was from.
"Sais pas. Du nord." was the reply [Don't know. From the north]
I thought "Calais?"

It transpired that he was born in a village some 40 - 50 km to the north.
Different accent there !

@TheRealBarbossa

Ever talk like a hoser? You know, like Canada's favorite sons Bob and Doug McKenzie?

@rinkydinkydoink not that I'm aware of.

@MellyMel22 New Yawk 😂

@MsSwan So good they named it twice! :-)

@SunshineGirl

I had to google what RP meant. If I understand the term correctly it means "proper" or BBC English. If RP also includes courtroom English like that used in movies such as Witness For The Prosecution or Love Among The Ruins then I find the surgical preciseness of a cutting interrogation to be one of my favorite forms of humor.

@rinkydinkydoink Received Pronunciation . . English as it used to be spoken on the BBC! I need it to succeed in my profession.

@PatientlyWaiting25 oh ok cool and my grandma was from Britain too I think the same town as you are from but I will have to check first if it is or not the same ok

@Snowbelle
...yeah, see if grandma says Ass or Arse because now I'm getting curious too.

@swirlie I can't ask her that bc she passed away awhile back and I think I heard her saying that too when we used to go see her at her work when she was talking on the phone with some of her friends from Britain too but I do remember some of the words that she said and I think that was one of them too

@craig7 I love watching crocodile Dundee movies from Australia too and I love how he talks in the movie too good day mate for hello

@Snowbelle Yes,the actor who played Mick Dundee back in the '80s did a great job in those movies - which were worldwide hits back then - but of course he pretty much exaggerated the accent to fit the character he portrayed.I've had a few Americans say "good day mate" to me,but it usually comes out something like "good die meet"!

@swirlie jasper carrot was unaware he sounded like a brummie?

@gol979
Did Jasper carrot then hurl himself off a bridge into the rushing waters below when he finally found out that he could easily be mistaken for an American?

@AdaXI cool

@AdaXI

I know what you want. . . alright, okay... your mention in a PM of the late Snooker player/announcer John Virgo is what got me thinking about accents. 😁

Which makes one wonder how many different English accents and dialects (over 160!) there are throughout the world (like Bermuda, Australia, Pitcairn, mid-Atlantic)