Well. you could have a strange choice. I quite like Black Country as opposed to Brum. Have to disagree on the manc, but N.Wales is irritating. south wales can be amusing, especially pertalbot for Port Talbot and eeyer for here
The Glaswegian accent annoys me as it pretty much incomprehensible, most foreigners have said they prefer my well spoken home counties accent as they can understand it, except an old manager I had who preferred me to speak English with a french accent as he couldn't understand any English accents at all.
Coming from Chichester I don't have much of an accent to speak of, but I've picked up some Portsmouth sayings along the way. There is a whole book dedicated to Pompey slang. One of my favourites is Plunder = something bad, as in "This Choinees takeaway is ****in' Plunder, I'm going deyn teyn where they are better"
I have to agree with swarbs on this. A real strong accent from anywhere is awful. The softer versions are all fine with me. Only strong accent I like is welsh. Fackin loves it I doo . Just makes me laugh. Actually quite like a strong West Country accent as again it just makes me laugh. They sound like they have been scrumping apples an no doubt have. Over every accent I dispise is street speak, this hybrid English / black Caribbean gibberish kids talk like to sound cool.
HRH got to agree with that Bradford accent. It;s horrendous. Got to be careful here, dont want to be accused of racism, but it seems to have developed from teenage Pakistani's. Yet it's not used by Indians. wierd. The Pompey accent isn't that strong, and always comes over as friendly. Toss up for first place for the best place to work in UK is either Pompey or Geordieland. Never had any grief in either. Bournemouth however is full of affluent and grumpy coffin dodgers. Miserable sods down there
Yes it does seem like that at first, but if you delve further, you find that it's not rhyming slang, they do use some cockney rhyming slang, but most of the nation does to some extent. Portsmouth has a mix of that and some very strange grammar, I loikes that I do's, He do's, It do We do's they do's. Does, doesn't come into it.
I was VERY careful Milk sea etc, I did not use the offensive P word. Strange thing is, in one place I was inspecting the manager there was Indian, and we were chatting about cricket. He used the offensive "P" word several times. Amazing, they think its OK
LOL... It was a tongue in cheek accusation.. hence the My parents next door neighbour is a black man... by most measures a very nice guy- and a good neighbour... However, one comment he made once struck me as a tad ironic. He was talking about being annoyed so many Hispanics were moving into the neighbourhood and made the comment 'property values always go down when those people move into an area'. I don't know if he is aware that's what some whites used to say about blacks- and that it wasn't acceptable then either. Indians have plenty of reasons to not get along with Pakistani people, and vice versa. The bigotry I find most amusing though is that a large majority of gays hate bi people with a passion.
