English Language: Map of the Various Accents in the British Isles – British Accent Map

[Graham]

I was listening to her albums at work today (love them )- some were live performances so I heard her speaking then. Yes, she sounded more like the west coast example.

Where does your accent fall?

Both West & East influenced being where I am. But mostly East Coast.

Amy Macdonald, comes across as nice which I like.

[noricum]

West coast sounds closer to Ulster, where most sentences can sound like a question. Or more nasally. Think Neil Oliver from Coast or Amy MacDonald.

I just wanted to ask you about him when I saw you already answered my question. I can't stand the way Neil Oliver sounds, he kills the most interesting documentaries for me. The other scottish accents you posted, including your own, sound really good to me it's just Neil Oliver.

[Graham]

I just wanted to ask you about him when I saw you already answered my question. I can't stand the way Neil Oliver sounds, he kills the most interesting documentaries for me. The other scottish accents you posted, including your own, sound really good to me it's just Neil Oliver.

Other Scots mock his kind poncy style too. My gran loves him. lol

But we had him on adverts too.

[noricum]

Other Scots mock his kind poncy style too. My gran loves him. lol

But we had him on adverts too.

Good to know I'm not the only one who dislikes him. In my opinion grannies have a naturally given right for horrific taste, mine likes Hias:https://youtu.be/7tfaSPv7ccU

[Catkin]

Good to know I'm not the only one who dislikes him. In my opinion grannies have a naturally given right for horrific taste, mine likes Hias:https://youtu.be/7tfaSPv7ccU

Mine had a poster of Tom Cruise stuck to her wardrobe door

[Graham]

Mine had a poster of Tom Cruise stuck to her wardrobe door

My gran has a signed picture of this guy from countryfile in the kitchen. The picture looks something like this.

[Catkin]

My gran has a signed picture of this guy from countryfile in the kitchen. The picture looks something like this.

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Haha, aww, doesn't he look a mischievous urchin

My nan also loved Michael Schumacher, she called him her 'Schumey'. She had a friend who also loved him, and they used to ring each other up after races to talk about him.

I can't wait to be old, you can get away with being such an oddball!

[♥ Lily ♥]

Not everyone from the West Country has a West Country accent though. Some of my maternal and paternal aunts and uncles, a few of my school teachers and my grandparents had a very slight West Country accent.

I was raised in the coastal town of Bournemouth which is more East Dorset than West Dorset. Most people in B'm'th don't have a West Country accent. I also spent part of my childhood growing-up in Kent.

I don't think I have any strong regional accent. I just see it as southern English.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Lily Cole is from Devon in south-west England and she doesn't have a West Country accent either.


These people have strong West Country rhotic farmers accents from Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, etc.

They pronounce their R's at the end of words and have rhotic accents, like Irish, American, Caribbean Islanders, and Canadians also do.


Not all Cornish people have West Country accents either.


A Cornish West Country accent.

[SvartVarg]

Kind of. The majority of them sound as loud and confident in a shouty way. It might be the accent or the upbringing/culture. But jeez.

Be real. People like Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, & Roger Daltrey to name a few are real Cockneys or close enough. None are "loud" or "shouty".


The real Cockney is far from the loud-mouthed whatnots who've moved into Bow Bells/East end area & erroneously dubbed "cockney" nowadays. There's a reason, after all, why the legitimate Cockney accent, not the modern day "mongrelized" version, is said to be going extinct.