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?
My wife says I have a posh accent, despite me growing up in a working-class household near London.
I love that accent, it sounds so classy - even though I’ve lived in Manchester 21 years, I’ve still retained my Irish accent (it’s a very polite mix of Dublin and “Culchie” (from outside of Dublin) accent) but at least it’s not that horrible put-on South Dublin/Dublin 4 accent that is so pretentious - I love the real working class Dublin accent (like the dealers in Moore St) as my Granny on my Dad’s side was from ‘The Liberties” area of Dublin (the real “Dubs” are great people) and having lived in the country (my home County is Meath), almost every County in Ireland has its own distinct accent, for example, Meath, Louth, Cavan, Westmeath, Offaly, Laois, Cork, Limerick, Kerry, Mayo, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford and Donegal