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I was chatting to my pal in Newcastle last night and she was telling me a funny story about a customer in her shop this week.

The customer seemed to have an extremely "posh" accent but my pal could hear distinct lapses where Geordie words seemed to creep in. Anyway she asked for DVD's about "Robert the Builder". Managing to keep a straight face my pal asked if she meant " Bob the Builder". The woman explained that she assumed her grandson had shortened it to Bob as he'd picked up a terrible habit of doing so at school.

This got me to thinking about people being ashamed of their past. Paul and I make no attempts to disguise our accents at all. Some of our pals out here in Tenerife think we have strong North East accents considering we moved away in the late 80's. It's only when family and friends visit that they realise just how watered down our accents have become compared to their's and that is not intentional on our part.

So why is it that there seems to be snobbery about accents? Why do you think some people make an attempt to hide their accent albeit in some cases badly?

There's nothing wrong with where you have come from in the past. It's something you have no choice over.

obs

Yorkshire and proud of it.
Nothing to hide. I think of myself as a missionary, educating the masses!

And it's TEA!!!!

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Cathy

I would never forget my roots! I am a true Geordie through and through and just love Newcastle. I am usually classed as the posh Geordie now though as I have had to mellow to make people understand me especially after spending 13 years in Leeds, but I will never try to lose my dialect. I still miss my peas pudding and stotties straight from the butchers with Savaloy. I am definatley not a snob and what you see is what you get

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Essex, not ashamed but by no means am i an essex girl!

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Welsh girl through and through and proud of it Known to one or two of the forum members as the valley troll

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Silicon Beach

surely it's incredibly cool & trendy to have a Geordie accent ?

eg the Big Brother voice over narrrator etc

I would have thought that nowardays it's a huge handicap to talk posh. You can just imagine 'Dave' Cameron having elocution lessons to learn how to talk less posh.

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Geordiecraig

Im very proud of where I come from. I have lived awaty a few times but when I came back to Newcastle it really felt like coming home. I dont have a strong accent because I lost it when I went to school abroad but I would never try and disguise my accent.

fun2bdeb

Im from the Midlands and I have to admit I really dislike my accent. I have found I have had to start pronouncing words properly because people could not understand me

I believe I am one of the most down to earth people you can meet but I do worry about fitting in sometimes. I think its more a thing of wanting everybody to like me and so I try too hard to please instead of just being myself but then when I am myself I find people like me anyway and if they dont its usually because I ve realised Im not too keen on them

I dont think Im ashamed of where I come from and I am starting to learn that people who cant accept you as you are arent worth bothering with. As I have been told recently I need to harden up and stop worrying so much.

One thing I do know is I ll never be Posh and dont particulary want to be but people who are posh arent all necessarily stuck up. It is a choice the person makes.

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tendedburrito

I've got quite a broad "weegie " accent and find I have to tone it down when speaking to people, especially whilst on the phone.

I lived in Durham for a few years and worked with a load of broad Geordies, and it was so funny for the first few months as we could hardly understand each other!

Same goes with my hubby, he's a Brummie and it took us a while to "get" what the other one was saying!

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I am as proud of my Salford roots as I am of my Cheshire upbringing, but yes I have deliberately changed the way I speak. Not because of fitting in or anything like that, but I was only young when I realised that missing t's and h's off words sounded bad and I stopped doing it. I also deliberately softened my u's -although southerners especially still detect a distinctly northern gutteral u as in "butty" , mine is much softer than the one I was brought up with. It isn't snobbery, I just felt that altering the way I spoke would open more doors for me, and I believe it has. On more than one occasion I have been told I was given a job because I was "well-spoken" in the interview