How aware are you of your accent? (Read the whole OP before answering, yeah that's right, all of it)

[J474]

There is, a British accent I guess is seen as that posh english accent.

It just really bugs me when a Londonian accent is said to be British. There are countless accents in Britain, so why use the label for one in particular?

 

[El Poncho]

There is, a British accent I guess is seen as that posh english accent.

It just really bugs me when a Londonian accent is said to be British. There are countless accents in Britain, so why use the label for one in particular?

Yeah it's crappy, and people probably will keep on thinking that everyone in Britain has that accent. Although I can just say i'm Scottish and i've went from a man with a top hat and cane drinking tea to a red headed scotsman wearing a kilt and being aggresive

 

[Banana Phone Man]

I live in Northamptonshire, England and I don't think anyone that lives there (unless they are polish) have accents. I have been told I speak posh by my friends but I think that they confuse posh with pronunciation. Just beacause I say my words correctly and don't say 'dread' 'sick' or 'brap' every few seconds doesn't make me posh. I am half Norwegian but I don't have their accent either.

 

[MelziGurl]

I'm Australian and commonly get asked if I'm British...or on the once off French *shrugs* I didn't think our accent would be that hard to pick up on, but I guess I was wrong.

 

[sirdanrhodes]

Did you know, according to one American, me and a friend (who were both just chatting at a reasonable level over Live) apparently are Americans and are just faking our "****** ass British accents".

Oh Live, how I love thee(!)

*Bonus, thread necrophilia!

 

[VanityGirl]

I don't have much of an accent, actually. I grew up too far south (in America) for me to have a "Deep South" accent, and if I do have one, it's never been mentioned, and I've been around the country. I do, though, have a somewhat...odd accent I put on certain words. I've never heard anything like it, and I can't really put it into text. Also, I'm an accent mimic. A day or two somewhere and I pick it up, generally.

Accents I can't stand? The aforementioned Deep South accent, y'all. It just makes me ill.

I love British accents, like Yahtzee's. And Scottish, as well. Mmm...foreign accents.

You may be saddened but what I'm about to say.
I have a Southern Accent, but not a sterotypical one that talks about going to get roadkill off of the road, but my accent is noticable..

I find a lot of people assume I'm a redneck that sleeps with my cousins and that I'm dumb because I have a southern accent.
It's odd because I am neither dumb, nor do I sleep with any family members.

*shrug* People in the world are stupid.

 

[Harkwell]

I wouldn't say I have an accent (this is on an american scale) I just sound like the basic american accent. Not like the more famous accents that everyone knows like the said Deep South accent or some other ones like the Boston accent. I couldn't tell you much more detail than that