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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
I do not like:
1) Upper-Class Twit accent
2) Scouse accent
3) East Midlands accent.
4) Sarf London accent (which is not cockney)
Geordie and Glaswegian are not accents; they are languages, on a par with some of the obscure Amazonian Indian languages and both comprise a simple linguistic structure amounting to ten or twelve different grunts, five clearings of the nasal passage, a couple of reverse farts and nowt else.
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East midlands! thats me tealeaf,North Warwickshire, the very centre of England, home to the battle of bosworth, war of the roses, last battle of boudica, Englands first booktown, the jewel of the midlands.
why, it's a very middle of the road accent, with pronunciation of words giving it away as being quite close to wolverhampton/blackcountry, rather than an accent(goo instead of go, a lot of locals also say lof instead of laugh, um instead of home,which are blackcountry, although strangely only a few odd words are used that are blackcountry. It's been described in several places during the days when I travelled the country as having 'a very slight twang'.
It's only recently that it's been pointed out that we are using black country words with only a very weak birmingham acccent. Also it's strange because they are black country words and yet birmingham is nearer yet they don't use them.