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Accents Part II...
ChoppersX's question has got me thinking about accents...
I'm from Milton Keynes and my boyfriend is from Rugeley, Staffs. We've been together for almost five years now and for the last year or so I have noticed (and my dad too, much to his amusement) that whenever I speak to my boyfriend over the phone or I'm up there,I speak with a Brummie twang! I can't help it (and I've tried!!).
It makes my dad hysterical. I can answer a phone call from my boyfriend in the middle of a converstion with my dad, and turn into a Brummie in a second!
The only ever person I've known with something similar is a man who used to come into a shop regularly that I used to work in. He would speak just like me, until one day he came in with his brother and they had the strongest Scottish accents I've ever heard.
Anyone else experienced anything like this?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Yes me. I speak french all day long, teach Oxford english and speak this same oxford english when talking to other fellow english people and divert back to my north-eastern accent when I speak with my family.
I think we have a tendancy to speak our native language to those we feel the most at ease with.