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of course Sussex has an accent...

ask Christian, he's from Faygate (see "Facebook" topic in "Non CH").

Ruthie-Baby wrote:

J.R. wrote:I rapidly lost my public school accent after leaving, and after working for plod became more working class.

Sorry, CH gave you a public school accent??? Surely not. At CH I got the mickey taken out of me for starting with a posh accent. I soon lost it!

I think my posh accent was enhanced - I had gone to prep school before I had gone to CH.

Interestingly at uni, there were some very sloaney types who had been to Eton, Cranleigh et al - who thought I was from the 'paupers' school' and most others thought I had gone to a 'posh' school because it was a boarding school! I couldn't win!

and then when you try to explain the principles of the school I got accused of taking a place off some other kid in need! I really couldnt win when taking about CH either i was some person who went to a pauper's boarding school or i was posh for not going to 6th form college!

I found that I had thre basic accents thanks to CH.

1. A posh accent to be used when mixing with people from the upper classes

2. My home town accent

3. The non-distinct accent that can mix with any regional dialect

That is the greatest lesson I ever learned at CH, the ability to mix with any social group in the country without feeling out of place.

what's your home town accent?

I can do posh when needed and Sussex the rest of the time and London now I've been here a few years (yuck but useful for communicatin' wiv locawls)

Kitchen ofcourse

how stupid, silly me

BTW do you smoke cigarettes?

Nah, its a filthy habit!

Scone Lover wrote:I found that I had thre basic accents thanks to CH.

1. A posh accent to be used when mixing with people from the upper classes

2. My home town accent

3. The non-distinct accent that can mix with any regional dialect

That is the greatest lesson I ever learned at CH, the ability to mix with any social group in the country without feeling out of place.

I think I am much the same.

As to whether there is a Sussex accent, my father has quite a strong one, the rest of the family have less of one because of course we had more exposure to other accents.

Passengers on the railway often ask my son what his accent is. I don't hear one - he loves confusing people by saying he comes from Islamabad - well he was born there!

My Grandma has a thick Kentish accent. Some of my housemates at uni over the years accused her of being Australian!

Katharine wrote:Passengers on the railway often ask my son what his accent is. I don't hear one - he loves confusing people by saying he comes from Islamabad - well he was born there!

I can just see your son doing that Katharine, thanks for the laugh!

Ruthie-Baby wrote:

J.R. wrote:I rapidly lost my public school accent after leaving, and after working for plod became more working class.

CH gave you a public school accent??? Surely not.

I've still got the posh one beaten into me at CH though apparently it has toned down a bit. (IMHO a tape recording of my voice is horrible)

I can also do a passable Belfast one - if there are people from Belfast for me to do a take-off.

I'm with Scone-boy on this one. I do develop a Kentish twang when I'm either drunk or very excited. But I can do a proper posh quite well when needs must.

My natural London accent comes out when the worse for wear as they say and when someone gets me angry. For some reason, everytime I have to do anything official/legal I do this imitation of a relief sergeant I knew at Bow Street nick in London.

The worst thing is that I pick up the accent of the area I live in.