Published on 12, July, 2020
I grew up in a fairly rough part of Glasgow and went to school with people with very thick working class Glaswegian accents, but everyone always described me as "posh". I even remember a local shopkeeper asking my mum where I was from once. I never understood how I ended up with a different accent. But it occurred to me recently that I have three cousins who are siblings and two of them have very rough accents but one sounds an awful lot like me. You wouldn't believe she was related to her siblings.
Is this an autistic thing? Or is my accent just a freak of nature?
I’ve lived 21 years in the U.K. but I still have a distinct and clear Irish accent, not attached to any particular County in Ireland or even the Dublin or Cork accents which are very strong - I’ve had a lot of compliments from my SE English friends in particular on my accent when they come up to Manchester or hear me on the phone and most people in Manchester pick up on the Irish accent very quickly - meanwhile, when I do go home to Ireland on visits, people in my home village in Ireland and in Dublin think that I have an English accent - I love the Dublin Liberties accent (for example the dealers in Moore St) and the Donegal, Cavan, Louth, Kerry & Cork accents, but I also love the Liverpool & the SE England RP accent, as well as the Cockeny (East London) accents
Monaghan and South Armagh have the same accent.
Here, in Mid Ulster, our accent is more in line with Ballymena.
I love the Derry City accent, especially the way they pronounce car. (caeur)