i'm a souffy and really have to concentrate on northern accents (Georgie,liverpool ,scots etc ).I like reading Catherine cookson etc and find I read them in the accent. lol x
I can understand most accents but people struggle to understand ours, I dont speak Geordie slang ever, so I don’t sound like Oz in Auf Wiedersehen Pet, and very often get taken for being Welsh
//I think Danny Dyer "shoves his London accent on" just a little too much.//
I think others from other areas of the country do that too, Scousers and Brummies in particular.
//I don't think it's accents so much as sloppy pronunciation.//
I disagree. Speech, in general, is governed by geography. No one would expect a Scot or a Yorkshireman or a Devonian or a Welshman to make an effort to modify their speech.