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Post by ox4eva on Aug 18, 2010 7:59:15 GMT
What accent do you have ?
Seems to me there 2 accents in Oxfordshire, theres the yokel farmer type accent and whats now called estuary English accent..
I speak with the estuary English accent (thank god) ;D
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Post by klimt on Aug 18, 2010 8:19:11 GMT
...which one do you write with?  |
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Post by sam1985 on Aug 18, 2010 8:24:32 GMT
What accent do you have ? Seems to me there 2 accents in Oxfordshire, theres the yokel farmer type accent and whats now called estuary English accent.. I have speak with the estuary English accent (thank god) ;D Yep, this is my take on it; Over 35s sound more like south-westerners. Under 35s sound more like south-easterners. But there's still elements of both in both, if that makes sense. And those ages obviously aren't rigid either. |
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Post by ox4eva on Aug 18, 2010 8:29:40 GMT
...which one do you write with? I write in fluent bampotry ;D |
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Post by sam1985 on Aug 18, 2010 8:31:11 GMT
Oh yeah and I suppose I speak much more with the Estuary English type one too. Actually I speak to this American girl a lot online and she once said ''omg you are like that Russell Brand guy's f**king VOICE TWIN!!'' Needless to say I was pretty hacked off. I don't sound like I'm from Essicks.  |
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Post by ox4eva on Aug 18, 2010 8:31:12 GMT
What accent do you have ? Seems to me there 2 accents in Oxfordshire, theres the yokel farmer type accent and whats now called estuary English accent.. I have speak with the estuary English accent (thank god) ;D Yep, this is my take on it; Over 35s sound more like south-westerners. Under 35s sound more like south-easterners. But there's still elements of both in both, if that makes sense. And those ages obviously aren't rigid either. I'm over 40 and speak in a "southeast accent" its funny how accents can be be so different and sometimes even area's very close to each other speak differently.. |
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Post by Ricky Otto on Aug 18, 2010 9:46:44 GMT
BBC accent for me.
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Post by klimt on Aug 18, 2010 10:14:58 GMT
I have a passionate desire to remove the teeth of those who speak with a mock 'gangsta' or stupid 'end each phrase with upspeak'.
Use your own voice
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Post by dabigfella on Aug 18, 2010 10:32:58 GMT
I do not have an accent!!!
Everyone else does but not me! ;D
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Post by Boilerplate on Aug 18, 2010 10:37:15 GMT
Lived in East Sussex for a while and picked up a bit of a 'Twang'. So a mixture of of the two.
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Post by ox4eva on Aug 18, 2010 10:43:52 GMT
I have a passionate desire to remove the teeth of those who speak with a mock 'gangsta' or stupid 'end each phrase with upspeak'. Use your own voice Agree with that 100% |
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Post by edgecam on Aug 18, 2010 10:46:20 GMT
I have no idea I'd like to know so tomorrow night in the pub I'm going to ask what my mates think as they are all from the local area and i pray mines different to theirs as I moved from Oxfordshire.
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Post by YellowHoods on Aug 18, 2010 13:02:44 GMT
Surely it's geographical, not age-related? West Oxon definitely more yokel than the city, for instance.
Personally, I speak Surrey stockbroker.
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Post by Belgian Yellow on Aug 18, 2010 14:21:54 GMT
Surely it's geographical, not age-related? West Oxon definitely more yokel than the city, for instance. Personally, I speak Surrey stockbroker. I thought you spoke gangsta with your teenage hoolies from Shrewsbury? MK in the hood and all that. |
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Post by Lone Gunman on Aug 18, 2010 14:28:56 GMT
I'd agree with the original post. As someone looking in from the outside (not having grown up in oxon) I hear two accents at matches. The 'yoof' tend to speak with a more south eastern, occasionally wanksta accent, while the older generation have more of a typical south west farmemr type accent.
Saying that there are some of the younger ones who are posessed of the yokel accent. One of the GE lads in particular sounds like he'd fit right in on a cider farm somewhere in deepest mummerset.
EDIT: oh, and i speak with a pretty broad northern accent. (Westmorland)
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Post by baldy on Aug 18, 2010 14:48:22 GMT
I have a passionate desire to remove the teeth of those who speak with a mock 'gangsta' or stupid 'end each phrase with upspeak'. Use your own voice I agree, that is nauseating. What the heck is that all about when you get white teenagers talking with a Carribbean slant to their accent. In some ways you have to just laugh but it sounds among the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. |
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Post by Boogaloo on Aug 18, 2010 15:19:40 GMT
Having spent most my life in Wantage, I do have a slight west-country twang. It's certainly not full-on Farmer Giles, but there is an element. I'm not ashamed of it though as there are a lot worse accents that I could be inflicted with, such as a Reading accent for starters. Now ged orf moi laand, you oik! ;D |
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Post by ConcreteBob on Aug 18, 2010 16:14:42 GMT
Banbury is very much FARMER.
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Post by truthteller on Aug 18, 2010 17:56:14 GMT
Oxford accents are unfortunately a bit on the farmerish side not as farmerish as the scum and nowhere neeeeeeear Brizzle,i remember a Sunderland fan said to me once that he thought we talked with a cockney accent  accents are wierd tho,some people do put on a cockney accent to try an look 'ard  |
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Post by YellowHoods on Aug 18, 2010 17:59:40 GMT
Surely it's geographical, not age-related? West Oxon definitely more yokel than the city, for instance. Personally, I speak Surrey stockbroker. I thought you spoke gangsta with your teenage hoolies from Shrewsbury? MK in the hood and all that. Are you dissing me, blud? |
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