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?
People said I sounded posh as well, because I always deliberately pronounced words and consonants and vowels. I also learned more from things like BBC radio/TV in the 80s/90s than I did from interaction with people where I live and back then it was all received pronunciation.
I don't really have a definable accent, it's kind of a neutral mismatch of acquired mimicry.
Paper said:I don't really have a definable accent, it's kind of a neutral mismatch of acquired mimicry.
Yes, I'm a neutral mismatch of accents too. People have often guessed I'm Welsh (even some Welsh people) even though I've only ever been there a few times