Give me attention!

[boglin]

THE POLL IS NOW CLOSED FOR ANALYSIS!

[Poll #496872]

Comments

[captainblue.livejournal.com]

Never heard you speak!

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Would never have known your origins if you'd not told me.

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

It's a strong accent and it sounds Brummie until I hear you talking with someone with a Brummie accent and then it's plainly not.

Lancashire? No, but something similar. Curiously, your up-and-down intonation is quite similar to nattydreadi and he's Northern irish by way of Sunderland, which tends to suggest North east.

Sorry, accent and regional variation in speech patterns fascinates me.

[baldrick.livejournal.com]

I'm terrible at accents. For me it seems to be a mix of the two I ticked. I can hear some scouse but that comes with living with a scouse for 5 years...

[dreamfire.livejournal.com]

mostly its close to RP for me, but with Northern overtones - that for me are echoe lancashire relatives a little.
Not brummie - compare you even to naturalised Brummies like Camilla and you don't have the picked up bits. And not scouse - you don't have the thick k's or the whineyness

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

I find nyarbaggytepp to sound extremely Oxford!

[dreamfire.livejournal.com]

I agree she can do - but catch her at moments and some of the Brummie in the either of Nic Smit and Rob has seeped in

[papalazarous.livejournal.com]

Seems like I went for the popular answer :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/eddy_/]

Well I've said scouse, but it comes and goes depending on what you're saying and how you're saying it (such as if you're angry/stressed etc).

"Fur trade wine" is the best example I can think of atm for the former.

[boglin.livejournal.com]

See 'fur' is norther. Scouse would be 'firr'.

[sciamachy.livejournal.com]

Fur for fair is Lancashire TBH - I shared a house with a guy from just outside Wigan and he said fur.

[balsall-heathan.livejournal.com]

Depends on the part of Lancashire (though you may have to be born there to tell the difference). I'm from East Lancashire and never swap the 2.

It's definitely a scouse thing, IMO.

[boglin.livejournal.com]

No. Fur isn't Scouse at all. If I was 'doing' Scouse, I'd say 'fiir' - it's almost a dipthing with a 'y' in it somewhere. much more of and eer than an uur. My Uncle John, definitely says fur and he's from Oldham.

[balsall-heathan.livejournal.com]

I've just done some talking to myself and I say "fair" for "fair trade" and "fair play", but "fur" when it's short for "fairly" ("it's a fair way to Chorley").

[boglin.livejournal.com]

TBH, my whole 'fur trade' thing is an idiolectal affectation rather than an accent feature, as I find it quite an amusing phrase. :)

[balsall-heathan.livejournal.com]

But Cilla says "fur" ;o)

I'm not suggesting you're as Scouse as "hur", BTW (though you probably live closer to Liverpool than she does).

[boglin.livejournal.com]

Now Cilla's a weird one actually, as she doesn't have a typical Scouse accent at all.

[balsall-heathan.livejournal.com]

The self-parodying accent of the professional Scouser?

[balsall-heathan.livejournal.com]

[points downwards]

Actually that bit about my accent has turned out to be wrong.

[sciamachy.livejournal.com]

Aye, people from Oldham for example, don't do it as far as I can remember, and they're right on the border with West Yorkshire.

[balsall-heathan.livejournal.com]

As in scouse lefties oppose the fair trade, but support fur trade ;o)

[sciamachy.livejournal.com]

There's bits of everything in there north of Watford Gap - I mean, I know where you're from & all, but it's not really your accent any more. There are distinct elements from both side of the Pennines, but they sound buried under a professional RP which tends only to crack and reveal what lies beneath once you've had a real skinful. Basically like any well-travelled person, you've picked up bits and pieces from everywhere you've spent any serious amount of time.

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's exactly how I would put her current accent too -- I answered "Northern" because although I am in general very good at picking out different NW accents (can tell the difference between a Coppull and Chorley accent for instance) hers is sufficiently neutral now to be considered just "Northern" or perhaps "Northern RP."

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I fear that I cannot remember what your voice sounds like... :-(

See my LJ for comments on my memory...

[scarybex.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I can tell you are not far from Liverpool but not a proper scouse accent at all...just in the vacinity there of.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

Bah. I didn't read LJ until after midnight!