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 have the same accent as my family. A working class regional accent. I do not sound posh at all.
People in Nottinghamshire call each other 'Duck' - apparently. (an ex-Support Worker I had - originally from Mansfield - called everyone that)
I'm not from Notts but I am from the East Midlands. I use the word Duck a lot.eg: Now then duck. (Hello. How are you?)My Great Uncle lives in Mansfield.