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Originally Posted by mobertol
Why does no-one seem to like the Scouse accent. I lived in L'pool for 3 years and grew to love it. Scousers have gorra lorra class and a wicked sense of humour - ahm norr'avin you on, they're great. Don't know anyone who says they don't like the way The Beatles spoke -Ringo Starr is brilliant on the Thomas the Tank engine series as narrator. 
I think that all regional accents are fine, can't think of any that get on my nerves.
It is no longer considered as a handicap not to have the perfect intonation of a 1950's BBC presenter.
Nor are people thought to be thick because they're "local yokels", as used to be the case. 
The problem these days is not with the accent so much as what people actually have to say for themselves.  |
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Suprise, suprise. Since I was in Liverpool doing my degree the same time as you, and like you love the Scouse accent. It's so distinctive, but so localised. It literally stops, when you leave the city, or Birkenhead. Like Susie said about Brum, there's many types of Scouse accents.
Love accents, and glad mine is returning.
Although I lived away for half my life, I never lost an ear for a local Lanky twang, and very often suprised people, by chasing them down Piccadilly, asking them where they were from, as I knew it wasn't far from Ossy.