Most Trusted Accent?

[melv16]

I've just read a survey in my newspaper on which local accent is the most trustworthy.
Top with 60% is of course Yorkshire.. yayyyyyy
Trailing badly at the bottom are East Anglian..10%
Scouse...8%
Brummie..4%
Now let me think, who on here has a Brummie accent:-)

[dannyk13]

Top with 60% is of course Yorkshire..
Obviously, it couldn't be anything else.

[Canary42]

Which newspaper was that - not the Yorkshire Post by any chance :-D

[roopower]

Goodness, is there so little news about, the papers have to resort to this. Having a Suffolk accent, even if it has faded since living in the midlands, I would have to disagree with their findings anyway. I was often mistaken as coming from Somerset anyway.

[melv16]

The article was in the I.
I'd go elecution lessons if I were you, roopower:-)

[Peter Pedant]

jsut finished frame linguistics
er the trusted accent goes with the frame of who is trusted most
Doctors, judges
journos at the bottom
doctors and judges speak in modified RP and so that is the most trusted

the musical accents - welsh south west scots are high
the cringe accents - Brummie and Scouse always scream guilty guilty guilty in any survey - ugh oh and essex/estuarial. do you realise that computer speech progz can drop T's ? wha' and "bo-ul" for bottle. Ay hevnt heard wivvit yet

and it hasnt changed for fifty years

[ToraToraTora]

I'm just off for a copper tie!

[ToraToraTora]

then I'm going to wash me ands in a buffalo!

[Arksided]

Bye heck... love do you wan't a cup o' t...? It's quite simple really as a Yorkshireman (God's own Country) we don't understand what johnny feringies are on about. I feel for the Brummies though:

[Apc2604]

11.22 Roopower


The East Anglian accent is the one accent that actors can't get right. They turn it into a West Country accent - ooooh arrrh, etc. I now speak a mixture of South London/Norfolk, after living in Norfolk for 41 years.

[roopower]

Melv, the only reason I would go to elocution lessons is to get my accent back! Apc, try harder with the norfolk accent. My accent does become broader if I'm excited or annoyed about something.

[piggynose]

If Shakespeare was alive today he would speak with a brummie accent, so they say.

[Peter Pedant]

// They turn it into a West Country accent - ooooh arrrh, etc.//

all purpose Mummerzet as arteests refer to it
I admit - - I said after someone was chucked off Norwich cathedral and splatted suitably on camera - to the words "That be good that be! aaaarh!"
"Oh I didnt realise Norfolk was like Darzetttt baint it!"
and got: " it isnt . The actor just cant do Norfolk and took up one to hand"

[Peter Pedant]

in view of the title - change that to
"used his trusty spare accent"

[Ellipsis]

Is this Suffolking joke or what?

[theshedman]

This clip always reminds me of Yorkshire as anyone from there will always tell you it couldn't be anywhere else.

[iluvmargie]

I'm a fan of the Geordie accent, love it!

[Maydup]

Arn ole Norfolk Bor