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 fav British isles accent is Gordie. Maybe it's more a dialect. I love the way it falls out and tumbles forward.
I cant understand it, yet it sounds as if I should and that tickles my brain to a state of glee! I could listen all day long!
I was a child in Newcastle aged 3 to 12 so had a Geordie accent when we then moved to Lancashire. A phrase I remember from my time there that tickled me particularly is: 'if patter woz watter you'd o' drooned!'. Patter means lying/embellishing the truth, as far as I know
just reading it's funny!