Exiled reds accents.

Two of my mates are reds fans, both from Hemsworth, both moved away in the 80s and never came back to live.

John worked on the railways and lived at Brighton, Portslade, Worthing and now Walton on Thames.

Chris moved to Guildford in Surrey and remained there.

I find it really funny that Johns accent has never changed despite living down there for decades, but Chris sounds like a pearly king .

I know lots post on here that have moved away. Has your accent changed or stayed the same?

 

Lived in 10 countries now and my accent has long gone..... North American friends love my English accent and English friends give me a hard time for all of the Americanisms that I use when I talk.....

 

Would love to hear this

 

Same as ScubaTyke.

 

Mine’s gone. I now sound like Stephen Hawking

 

I’ve been darn sarf for over a decade and people still struggle to understand me!

 

What about escapees, not just exiles? ;-)

 

Mine is pretty similar but I slip back in to full on Yorkshire when back home

 

@Redarmy87 anything to say on this?

 

I'ff liffed for er long time in Germeny. I don't know vot you mean viff my exccent, it hes not changed er bit.

 

when I was in the army years ago if I came home at the w/e my mates ( new lodge) asked " wot tha torkin posh fo" and when I went back to deepest darkest Hampshire ( middle wallop, yes it does exist) nobody could understand me so I had to work on "loisin mi" accent

 

I live in Derby and work in Stoke, I've still got a Yorkshire lilt but it's not pronounced, and I don't use Yorkshire slang much. But like others, when I go home I slip right back into it, especially when talking to my brother who never moved away.

 

As a family we used to visit my cousin in Poole every year for a couple of weeks.
Like me, my wife and our sons have a strong Yorkshire accent. When we arrived
at our Micks house, him his wife and kids used to split their sides laughing at the
way we talked and often admitted, they didn't have a clue as to what we were saying.
One year I took a copy of Austin Mitchell's book down with me so they could start to
better understand what we were saying. Other musts to take down on our visit were some Hector
Ellis pork pies and three family sized Cooplands Custard pies.


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Left Royston at 19, now 50. And even after all these years my wives family always ask 1, why the **** dont you say the word " the" and why do Barnsley people sound thick on the tele, they do know how to wind me up

 

Weird isn’t it, I think “the” is removed from the vocal range of all Barnsley born babies... I don’t say t’... but there is a void where the should be. Properly weird.

 

Always hear a fair few reds fans with southern accents at the likes of Millwall, QPR, Charlton etc.

Bizarre but somehow endearing

 

Might av told this b4 . But when me and our lass were cortin . My mates now wife frum cunisbro. Spoke in a typical south yorkshir accent. We went to her parents one day and I thought we'd gone to anuther planet. Shi started talkin to em in the broadest Scottish accent you cud imagine. Think my mate had to ask her to translate whenever he visited their house.

 

Not gone, but definitely softer, although back to normal within an hour of going back home.
Once got told by an american that I sounded like James Bond... can only assume he watched it with subtitles.

 

Someone asked my mate if he was from London last weekend at Gillingham. Couldn't believe he was originally from Hemsworth.

 

I don't have a southern accent by any means. My accent has softened a lot over the years (having left Barnsley at 18 - I am now 50) but there are certain things you don't change - like saying 'grass' and 'bath' with a flat 'a'. When I hear northerners saying 'baaath' it just sounds fake. Some aspects of your accent and pronunciation it seems natural to soften, other parts not.