[auscouse]

JoeMack, on 02 November 2009 - 01:41 AM, said:

personally I think it's the best accent in the werld, but I'm probably a bit biased.

And quite right too.

John

[becky]

my hubby and kids say i speak differently to my brothers and sisters, that i sound posher than they do, now that is weird

[prof]

A lot of southerners mistake any merseyside accent for a scouse one.Only those born and raiosed xcan tell the difference between the various ccents of this area. i noticed years ago watching Brookside one family in the close had three different accents two were scouse, one was pure bikenhead and one was st Helens. god knows what scouysers think of my warped accent these days. my mother and father had different varieties neither like modern scouse and my two grandmotghers had scottish scouse and Manx scouse respectively.

[normag]

windydan, on 25 September 2009 - 10:00 PM, said:

I must admit if I watch TV and there's a scouser or scousers talking I find it hard to follow what they say. I think ones accent does soften as years go by if you are away from Liverpool. but if you go back it doesn't take long to fall back into it.
I found I had to deliberately soften my accent when I became an instructor in the RAAF and later a teacher at tech college... I had to really slow my words down once I became a radio program presenter.

for those who haven't visited the eight hundred lives of Liverpool project you can hear my accent at eighthundredlives.co.uk

windydan

I have lived in Canada for 45 years and I still sound the same as the day I landed here, my kids were all young 9months, 2 1/2 yrs, , 5yrs, 7yrs. so they all have Canadian accents I think you only lose your accent if you try to I never did. Somtimes when I get into a paddy the kids have trouble understanding me I go right into talking fast using the sayings we used at home and they dont have a clue. Im proud to be scouse and never try to hide it.

[Spongey]

May as well carry on with this one. My dad who has lived in NZ longer than he lived in Liverpool, can't understand Liverpudlians very well at all, if there's any on TV I have to tell him what they are saying, and funny thing is, he can hardly understand a word his sister says when he talks to her on the phone 9being deaf doesn't help I suppose). Becky re your accent and your siblings, my Mum sounds posher than her sister don't ask me why, maybe because she also left Liverpool for a while. A lot of people in the shops can't understand my dad, but to me he hasn't got a scouse accent.

[Clarice]

When we first moved south, we were kept busy unpacking, hubby was at work, lyndyloo and i went on a recky, we found a chippy van, i sat in the car, she got out, asked for two fish chips and peas, like you do.....three times she told him...
she spotted he hadnt added the peas....nodded to me....so i got out....very polite your daughter, nice to see, he said.
I didnt have the heart to spoil it, we paid got in the car, and laughed all the way home.

Another time, we were out, asked a snack van for two bacon barm's! that is a difficult one still, but we tend to do that just to get up their nose...

My sister talks with a plum in her mouth....but you should hear her after a bottle of wine...or two