What's your accent?

[Geoffrey Howe]

I speak with an RP accent. For the UK quiz (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html) I got hotspots on Reading, Cambridge and Tunbridge Wells.



My American map was weird. I am relatively similar to much of New England, but my closest was Rhode Island. Also light yellow for the west coast and strangely Wisconsin. Like other Brits I was oddly similar to Hawaii.

[Geoffrey Howe]

I speak with an RP accent. For the UK quiz (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html) I got hotspots on Oxford, Cambridge and Tunbridge Wells.

My American map was weird. I am relatively similar to much of New England, but my closest was Rhode Island. Also light yellow for the west coast and strangely Wisconsin. Like other Brits I was oddly similar to Hawaii.

Glad to see another RP-speaker.  Wouldn't want too many ghastly oiks amongst our Brit-posters.

Who are they?

[Geoffrey Howe]

I speak with an RP accent. For the UK quiz (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html) I got hotspots on Oxford, Cambridge and Tunbridge Wells.

My American map was weird. I am relatively similar to much of New England, but my closest was Rhode Island. Also light yellow for the west coast and strangely Wisconsin. Like other Brits I was oddly similar to Hawaii.

Glad to see another RP-speaker.  Wouldn't want too many ghastly oiks amongst our Brit-posters.

Who are they?

Those without RP accents of course.
*Adjusts monocle*

À la Jacob Rees-Mogg.

But who are the Brits here without RP accents?

[Geoffrey Howe]

À la Jacob Rees-Mogg.

But who are the Brits here without RP accents?

I once had a fairly typical English accent, but once you've lived in Fife, where everyone speaks like this for over a decade, it's mellowed into something generically Scottish.

Well that's fair enough. That part of Scotland has quite a soft accent. I suspect Conservatopia was referring to English posters; which is somewhat ironic given his views on Ms Sturgeon. (Also I don't endorse Conservatopia calling people with a different accent 'oiks')

[Geoffrey Howe]

À la Jacob Rees-Mogg.

But who are the Brits here without RP accents?

I once had a fairly typical English accent, but once you've lived in Fife, where everyone speaks like this for over a decade, it's mellowed into something generically Scottish.

Well that's fair enough. That part of Scotland has quite a soft accent. I suspect Conservatopia was referring to English posters; which is somewhat ironic given his views on Ms Sturgeon. (Also I don't endorse Conservatopia calling people with a different accent 'oiks')

Dude it's a joke - I hope nobody would endorse it.  "Ghastly oik" is the sort of thing a posho (RP) would stereotypically say.  Hence the monocle comment too.  I don't actually have any problem with people having different accents nor do I look down on people with provincial accents.

I seem to recall you making a facetious comment about the accent of Devon too (after I called it "pirate accent").  Outrageous and preposterous!!

In fairness it is often difficult to detect sarcasm in text.

No no of course I don't seriously think you believe that. Just washing my hands of any blame...

[Geoffrey Howe]

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Makes sense, having lived in England for nearly all of my life. The area where I live is not labelled but it is in the darkest choropleth band.

I will say that cat and last are pronounced the same way.

Isn't that more of a northern thing? Or is it found in the West Country?

[Geoffrey Howe]

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Makes sense, having lived in England for nearly all of my life. The area where I live is not labelled but it is in the darkest choropleth band.

I will say that cat and last are pronounced the same way.

Isn't that more of a northern thing? Or is it found in the West Country?

It is a Northern thing, but that's how I speak.

I was just confused because none of the North was shaded on your map.