Re: Regional Prejudices

Accents are strange things. I was born in the valleys and as a teen my family moved to an area of Flintshire where the accent is more a combination of Lancs and Cheshire than it is Welsh. Unfortunately my really strong South Walian accent made for a heck of a lot of teasing and name calling (now called bullying I suppose, but we were tougher in those days). When I started my Cadet Nurse training at 16 we had to attend college one day a week, and one of the classes had to be non vocational ie. cookery or needlework, that sort of thing, anyway one of the options was something called 'Use of English' basically a sort of elocution class. I jumped at the chance to rid myself of what at the time was a troublesome accent. (believe me I made Maudie Edwards sound high class English lol), and after a year of 'How now brown cow' and such like, I eventually lost the taffy twang, and although I never actually acquired a permanent 'laid back' accent I have occasionally been accused of 'talking posh'. Now the strange thing is, since then, having joined the W.R.A.C. and travelled about a bit, my accent has sort of 'levelled out', to the extent that fellow Welshmen accuse me of being English, and English people are not at all sure where I hail from. But, I have an aunt and uncle who grew up not far from where I did, he was in the RN during the war and remained in until he retired when they settled in Weymouth. Now there is a strong accent no? But they have both retained a really really strong S Wales accent, and both their daughters have strong Dorset accents. Odd no?

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Well yes - very complicated gal - forget accents - its all in the way ya say things thats important....

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Oooooo aaaaarrrrr, oooooo aaaaarrrrrr! I got a brand new combine 'arvester! Wurp a diddle dido! Just bin plantin me mangelwurzels and drinkin' up me zider! Don't you know!

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I have never had an accent really no one has ever been able to guess where Im from....
Probally because I was an RAF child and moved around far to much ...case of where ever Id laid my hat thats my home ... Never stopped moving after I left my parents home either ....

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Twizzle darlin' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UT8ttxJ4Ro