Typical from A so-called Brummy
from Solihull
Hey pumparseThis would seem to clear up the shroud nonsense once and for all: A quick...
As I grew up, we moved from one end of England to the other - all places with strong accents: Sunderland, Spalding in Lincolnshire, Saff Landan, Manchester and now I am a Brummie. I found that I adopted accents as a necessity to avoid bullying - and which ever way you went you always seemed to be blamed for talking posh. My favourite accent was the (to be slightly inaccurate) Geordie Sunderland accent - a completely different language with strange pronouciations, odd words and quite a culture to go with it. The worst is the Brummie accent. Nowadays, I will adopt anyone's accent that I am talking to with no effort - a week's visit to the States and I will adopt their strange phrases.
Or is this you ????
Scrowpex born in Birmingham to brummy parents, and have lived there most of my life. However, in my teens I started to become interested in learning French and went on to study French at University - Nowadays however, People always seem to mistake me for being French - they would ask me "what part of France are you from?" to which I either lie (to keep life simple) and say "er, Paris!" OR try and explain to them that I'm actually a brummy and I don't know why I don't have a brummy accent! Even more confusing is when other people notice that I have an Irish accent and not a french one?! At least I'll always sound exotic!....
Or don't you know, what your roots are. Are you just a plain faker, putting on an ACCENT as to not get your head STOVED IN....
PMSL
Pat
"A TRUE BUT LOYAL BLUE"
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