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Surley its not possible for us all to speak the same!!...we all come form diff parts....i'm the first to admitt i really do not have a posh accent by any means....but i do treat people the way i wish to be treated my self.........surely it's more about the personallity than the accent,,,,,i love accents...Rachel..xxxx

Joanna,

Im sure if you contact Jamie Oliver he maybe able to tell you that if as a child his speech impediment was tried to be corrected,,,,,,and its rude of you to presume others wise,

His accent he has aquired from where his upbringing was,,

And you obviousley dont know the landuage of the old East Enders....where Bob was brought up.....why should he or anyone else aquire an accent which clearly would be false to their upbringing,,,,

has SIr Michael Caine changed his upbringing accent,,,,,,no he speaks the same as hes always done ,,

I really don't think it's accents we are criticising here - I for one have a Welsh accent - I'm proud of it, and I just love all regional accents. It's sloppy speaking that was the subject of the thread. The world would be very boring indeed without all the different regional accents we have in this country

With the local accent come the sound of certain words,,,,
No true East Ender/or other places would ever sound as saying Tomatoes,Potatoes.,,

Well done Joanna.

It's looks like you've fired a few people up there, me included.

Like most people I love accents and accents affect how we pronounce words, I pride myself on being able to recognise a lot of accents but I speak to thousands of people a year from all over the U.K..

My favourites are ladies accents that come from Wales or who are Geordie.

I'm anybodies for a "way ay pet" or a "there's lovely isn't it".

Ron
www.genealogyprinters.com

My daughter went to Brighton Uni, where she bacame great friends with a girl from the East End with a very strong accent. This poor girl had to put up with ignorant comments from others who, I presume came from 'good homes' in the 'commuter belt' with 'posh' accents.
Some were so 'over the line' they asked my daughter (who they mistakenly thought had a 'posh' accent) why she associated with such a common person!!
They accused daughter's friend of being thick - Duuh - she was at Uni with them. Common - this girl had 2 parents, but was brought up in Hackney - my daughter was brought up with 1 parent in a council house, and even accused the girl of 'putting on her accent'!!
Daughter's friend is now working and looking after her father, who has Altzeimers so he doesn't have to go into a home - not many 25 year olds would put their life 'on hold' like that.

It's not the way you say it, it's what you say that is important. I'd rather know a lovely person who says 'Haa naa braan caa' than a shallow figment of a human being who can't see beyond their own backside!!

maggie

My dad had a very northern accent which he never lost after coming to live in london when he was in his 20's, he used to say tomatoe's, I say tomarta's. I was born & bread in london, its my way of saying things -I didnt "talk" the same way as my dad did.
Whats wrong with that? Im not thick or uneducated.
I feel quite offended by your comments.

In my opinion....................it's what you say that counts, not the accent you say it in.

Polite, kind words are the same no matter how they are are pronounced.

xx

Years ago late 1940's 1950's. Your accent held you back.

I was brought up in Essex, and had a bit of a twang, the first job I had in a Sales Office, a girl spoke with a plum in her mouth, but could not spell. As we were shorthand typists this was difficult for her.

I never forget she was looking in a Dictionary under 'N' . She said she could not find the word she was looking for I said what was the word she said
Pneumatic Drill.

What a laugh this caused, and it just showed that a posh accent, did'nt mean you had a brain.

Fortunately our Supervisor was an East End girl,and she went by brains, not accents.

I must agree though, some of the accents do grind, especially when they are put on.

Hmmmm - did I not post a second comment on here ?? I'm sure I did, seems to have been deleted - maybe cos i was talking like wot Londoners do LOL

it's not how or with which accent you talk with it's what's inside that counts-
catherine
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Blimey Joanna, you'd have a fit if you came up to Yorkshire. Nobody pronounces their H's and haven't done for hundreds of years but I wouldn't say that everyone in Yorkshire is thick!

I was born in the 60's when everybody on the telly spoke with a plum in their mouths but I haven't ended up speaking like them, so I doubt if television has any effect on the way we speak.

I may not speak the Queen's english, but I speak proper Yorkshire, a fact of which I am very proud.

Well!!
isn't it ordinary people who shop at Tesco:-))lol

Bob Hoskins is a cockney, I'm sure that Tesco have lots of shops In the London area:-))

I much prefer to hear an accent,to be honest!

Its Called Good Advertising;-)))

FGS - Joanna ain't criticising his accent!!
having said that, however you view it, they've had some damn good publicity on here today!! Any publicity is good publicity as they say!!

Ann X

For goodness sake....

Bob Hoskins is a cockney (which for the uneducated means born in London) same as me. It is called an accent.

Because I drop my aitches and don't sound g at the end of a word doesn't mean I am not as good as the next person no matter what job I do.

I am proud of my accent and wouldn't mind betting Bob is too.

A regional accent is a form of identity.

Jean x.

Just seen your post Ann. Of course Joanne is criticising Bob Hoskin's accent cos that is how he speaks.

Jean x.

Hiya Jean:-))

So you should be proud Jean, accents are lovely and I love the Cockney accent,to me its Very English:-))

Just an idea but if the way the celebrities speak annoy you so much maybe you should use 888 subtitles then you wont have to hear them.

If they pronounced everything properly then they wouldnt have a regional accent...so criticising how someone drops 'H''s is criticising someones accent !

init?

Hi Jean - I didn't read it as Joanne criticising his accent, I took it that she was criticising his sloppy pronunciation - I couldn't agree more that accents and fantastic, I have a Welsh accent myself and am very proud of it - perhaps I did misinterpret this thread, in which case I'll step out of this thread cos obviously I've got it all wrong