#210

also haven’t read the thread but if you point out words people say in their accent as “wrong” i.e. it’s waTer, it has a t in it, then you’re a real prick

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#211

:laughing: is there a particular story?

it’s just 1 pow ow pls

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#212

haha nah maybe story was the wrong word but just you talking about ordering it in a pub or something, i’m sometimes tempted to say pow ow when i’m at a bar, might do that tonight

#213

[Posted as a former “Brainree and Wi’ham” resident]

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#214

I’m from Dundalk so had this accent till I was about 13.

Then I did speech and drama at school and suddenly everyone thought I was posh or English, which was terrifying because Dundalk is not a place you want to sound English.
Then I moved to Dublin and that neutral “I’m from the country but moved to Dublin” accent kicked in.

I went through a few years where people always thought I was American, which was terrible.
Now I think it’s just a soft, generic Irish accent. :man_shrugging:

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#215

I don’t like the sound of my voice but I like my accent, it’s a Merseyside-but-not-scouse/Lancashire hybrid. Like a traditional St Helens accent as opposed to the plastic Scouse one which seems the accent du jour there nowadays.

#216

Hello there border neighbour!
I grew up in Newry.
No idea what my accent is like these days having lived in a few different places since though.

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#217

:wave: :wave:

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#218

Re the conversation we were having yesterday, here’s an example from right just now on a Teams meeting I’ve just been in.

The meeting chair did a round table for final questions and ended up at a colleague of mine with a frankly fairly straightforward Greek name. She had a couple of goes but didn’t get past the first syllable, my collegue unmuted and said her name, and the chair said… “Well done”…

#219

Ooft that’s a dick move to say that.
I would have either attempted it at that point or said apologies.

#220

I’m sure it was embarrassment/nerves, but still a bit of an eye-opener.

I mean this is the name. Really not that hard imo.

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#221

The chair: ‘Eric!’ :joy:

But yes surely learning your colleagues names alone is common courtesy if not an actual necessity in the work environment.

#222

In fairness, my colleague, and only distantly the chair’s. Offered up less as a critique of her, more as an illustration of how flustered and inappropriate people can get about pronunciations, much like I guess harru was alluding to yesterday. I’d lay odds the chair is still wondering why she said that.

#223

And for what it’s worth my colleague’s accent is totally awesome. The Greek spin she puts on some consonants is like a work of art.

#224

Aye real awkward moment by the sound of it.
At least she knows what it is now though and can hopefully use her name in future.

#225

My da’s from Donaghmede but I was born and raised in the west, between Sligo and Roscommon, so I’ve always kind of had this. Been more consciously embracing the wesht in me as I get older. For some time I worked with a tech company that employs majority west-based people and it was great to hear my natural accent in that kind of setting, rather than be a figure of fun

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#226

I do not like my accent, no. Especially when I’m talking to members of my family and the real Derbyshire Backwater stuff comes out, the letter H just ceases to exist.

#227

Mrs F draws my attention to an animal in a field.

This is not what it is

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This is what it is

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#228

love my accent, lovely combo of bury and manc. think when i went to uni in north wales my accent got thicker. a lot of people have said i’m the most northern person they know, which is wild. think @Ruffers said i was more northern than he expected when we met

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#229

I developed a complex about my accent when an ex-member of Red Action said I sounded too posh to be a leftie. Which is a bit of a dick thing to say I suppose. I used to say that I’m not posh I’m just well-spoken which is also a bit of a dick thing to say.