Do accents, twangs or little things said by people from different areas grind your gears like they do mine?

[Cockneycarl]

I love people from all walks of life as diversity and difference is the spice of life, but i can't for the life of me ever get to grips with the way country folk talk, the way they say "Summat" instead of something, the way they say "T" instead of The and yesterday i was standing in trafalgar square and actually heard someone say with a slow drawl "we had the BESTEST time didn't we" ARRGH! "Bestest"? I actually asked him where he was from and he told me and i thought i will seriously avoid ever going to that place if they all talk like that, lol.
What accent or the way people talk from the uk really enrages you?

[Cockneycarl]

Lol, that's true maidup.
Nice use of the lingo btw

[tonyav]

LOL @ Maidup, she's right you know, me awld china.

[tinkerbell23]

Theres a chavvy accent, which in scotland is a "ned".....and they all somehow manage to talk the same way, its absolutley dire. Like a drawl. Really awful. X

[Cockneycarl]

Tinkerbell what is a ned, a scottish chav? How do they differ from your average chav?

[heathfield]

Wasn't there one about Brummies thinking that Reuters were novelists?

[FredPuli43]

Cockneycarl, they're may be clue in your name. I worked in the courts that covered East London, from Bow to Snaresbrook Crown Court, all my working life, and noticed, certainly in later years, people only called themselves cockneys for sentimental reasons. They didn't speak much like their great -grandfathers would have done, and had generally had not been brought up in the old East end. They had got what was nearer to Estuary accents.They were about as cockney as Irish Americans were Irish; it was a historic link, rather than reality.

But you may be a survivor .

[Old_Geezer]

Some accents/dialects I like, others grate on my ears and make me prefer to be elsewhere.

Some phrases/words I'm happy to use or hear, others jar like crazy. What annoys others is often a surprise.

[tinkerbell23]

They dont differ i wouldnt think , just a different name....and a seriously bad way of talking x

[Old_Geezer]

Actually a reasonable recent example. There was a rather attractive young lady on the morning TV today. The item was about how she got out of a girl gang. But when she spoke, oh dear, London based or what.

[follyfancier]

I don,t mind accents as long as I can understand them but what I dislike the most is words not being said correctly
BEETROOT said as BEE-ROO- ,or WATER as WA-ER used to annoy me but just recently I have heard more than one person who cannot say FLOWERS ,I can,t even try to spell how it sounds but something like FLAAARRRS is the closest I can get

[baza]

that dark haired receptionist in doctors sets my teeth on edge , what a whine, otherwise i like to hear local dialects. Estuary english seems to be the norm where i live.

[Traci66]

What winds me up is people pronouncing th as f, oh and dropping t's and g's.

[heathfield]

Ri' enough, Traci!

[brionon]

Vive la Difference. I don't want a Gruel of exactly the same.

[FredPuli43]

Th as 'F', yes fings ain't what they used to be. But what about the strange grammar; I were, you was, he were, they was, and so on, which varies from place to place (London has 'I was' correctly but 'you was' and 'they was'); but is non-standard?

[joko]

i am from liverpool, but i dont have a strong accent - mine is considered posh by some with very scouse accents

have to say i dont like it when people seem to be trying to be as scouse possible, exaggerating everything...sounding like they've got a gob full of glass ... why do that?

accentwise i dont really hate any - but what jars most with me is people with any accent and trying to disguise it and speak 'posh' - but not doing a very good job.
every few words they slip a bit and certain words in particular suddenly revert and they sound almost like that character in the fast show that speaks spanish and then suddenly geordie.

i ahve noticed many actors do this... just makes them sound bizarre.

i also hate it when actors have roles that they simply cannot do the accent for

unless you can do it convincingly, faking any accent is awful

[woofgang]

Read you question, that's not laughing....

[zebo]

I don't have an issue with accents, to each their own. However, I detest what I call "slack jawed" voices with cut out parts of words, usually the end but sometimes the middle, it's lazy, stop it now!

[craft1948]

I like to hear the different regional accents (I speak broad Yorkshire) but must admit that I have to be p!ssed to understand geordies.................

[Sir Alec]

Just about anything and everything said by Cheryl Cole.