What do you sound like ?

Depends how cross I am !!!!

I am pretty posh but quickly (when on a rant) speak a sort of turbulent Cockney.

I don't really know what I sound like to other people. The only inkling I have is when I hear the recorded message on the answerphone and it does not accord with what I sound like to myself. But like the camera, it cannot lie! I like to think that I have a northern accent with the rough edges rounded off. I drop more of my haitches these days than I used to, but still manage to be considered to be well spoken much of the time. My vowel sounds are still flat though - I say bath and path; DH says barth and parth, but he's not posh, he's Welsh!

Not insulting? Quite possibly, merlotgran - but my farmer uncle, from the Scottish borders, really despised southerners, made no bones about it. He's no longer here.
As for accents, he could talk posh when speaking to the Duke of Northumberland, his landlord (I was with him once when they met.) But when with the local shepherds he spoke broad Northumbrian.

To be fair to us plummy southerners, a lot of northerners take the mickey out of their own language (often in jest, I agree)

When the DGCs were small and DH wanted to tell them about his past he would often begin with a heavily accented, 'When I were a lad.' It was just a form of entertainment in the same way Alan Titchmarsh exaggerates the dropping of his Yorkshire 'aitches'.

We are who we are and we speak how we speak. I laugh when DH imitates me saying, 'cup' not 'coop.' It sounds ridiculous and I usually retaliate by demanding he say, 'poem' which comes out as 'poyemm'

I say 'oop north' when talking to family. Do they think it's insulting? Of course not.

Life's too short.

Surely "barth" is the result of a speech defect. I often wonder if people who say drawring instead of drawing are aware of how ignorant they sound. Accents are lovely and interesting, mispronunciations are a sign of disability or poor education.

Because gillybob people seem to think its clever to take the p* out of northern accents. Also to equate it with not being intelligent. I am proud if my northern roots and get really irritated when others, usually people from the south think their way of speaking is the only correct one,

* In-laws, not inlays!

I was born and lived in Kent until I was in my mid-20's, when I moved to Scotland. I don't have an ear for accents, I don't really notice how people sound unless it's very marked, so I haven't picked up the Scots accent. Nor has my Dh and none of our DC sound Scottish, either.

When I go back to Kent, people there sound very different from 40 years ago. The Estuary English accent has taken over and I find only older people such as my inlays still sound Kentish.

I was brought up in Buckinghamshire until I was six and then moved to Spain. My mother is american, my father was british. I am told my accent is "neither here nor there" or "mid-atlantic", whatever that is!

I mainly grew up in Surrey but have lived in South London for 47 years so I guess I have a South London accent. Not a lot I can do about that but I love to listen to anyone from Newcastle speaking.

Born and brought up in Oxford I don't think I have any accent, certainly don't have the 'Oxford' one, that is for gown rather than town. I think DD1 sounds the same as me though, and she has been called a carrot cruncher.
I hate hearing my voice recorded as it is quite deep, and I have been called 'Sir' on the phone! On my answer phone greetings I have tried to pitch it higher but still hate it.

Suffolk and proper carrot topper accent which in spite of living away from Suffolk I haven't lost. It's a real conversation starter wherever I go and I even have a lady at my gym who sits next to me as asks me to talk so she can listen to my accent. I wouldn't go so far as to say I hate it but very often feel people judge me as being stupid because of my accent.

I lived in East Fife until I was 18 but I went to a boarding school where I got the impression that my accent was common so had it slowly changed by the nuns. Some people think I have a strong Scottish accent, I do not. My grandmother was barely intelligible except to family and those who lived in East Fife when she spoke as she had a very strong East Fife accent having lived there all of her life.

I worked in Dundee for a few years and to begin with thought I was in a foreign country.

What do I sound like?

Usually like I've lost the plot. And a little bit Yorkshire, little bit Highland Scots, little bit Fife.

Mine is a mix of Fife and Nottingham due to spending my years living in both areas now and again. My English friends think I have a Scottish accent and my Scottish friends think I have an English one. When I hear myself talk - eg on our answerphone, I think I sound awful - (rather flat and bossy-sounding)!

I'm pure Essex girl, although, years ago I asked someone where they were from and she told me her accent was a proper Essex one. It was almost west country sounding. She said Essex accents today are watered down with cockney.

I have a southern accent.

I don't say barth, grarss, carstle though. To me that would be someone from the West Country.

From Sussex, but don't think I have any Sussex accent.
I went to a boarding school and we spoke RP and at home,so I have been mainly told that I sound "posh"?
I also lived in Dorset for 15 years, and when I moved back to Sussex some locals said I had a trace of West Country, but I can't hear it myself?

I m told I have no accent and I don't think I do if I listen back to a recording I certainly wouldn't know where I came from My grandparents on one side were Suffolk through and through and on the other side Leicestershire so i grew up with 'owd morthers' and 'me ducks' I was a day pupil at a boarding school so mixed with girls from all over the place and never seemed to pick any particular accent up
I am a Barth, grarss, carstle person though but have never been told I speak posh
I m definitely a scone not a scon person though that sounds everso posh to me
I love accents

I have a scottish accent,west coast ,not a weegie accent which is much stronger .I have a very "young" voice apparently as, if I've spoken to a client on the phone when he speaks to my husband he'll say that wee lassie that works for you...lol I'm actually older than my OH.I regularly get asked for the "boss as he'll have a better idea then the office girl" I think its hilarious .

Welsh but a mixture of several Welsh accents

I'm told I sound 'posh' when I'm speaking in public but revert to a mishmash when at home. DH is from the north and I'm a true southerner - hence the mixture

Apparently I sound like I come from Surrey - I don't. When we were house hunting there in the days when you registered with estate agents, I gave my address as Solihull and was told that I didn't come from there I sounded local.

Still far too much snobbery about accents.

Born in Middlesex. Rest of life in Herts (Watford) and the last 40 years in North Bucks. Sometimes told I speak 'posh'. I think I am fairly neutral with a bit of Bucks. Hate to hear myself on a recording. I don' sound anything like I think I do.

I was brought up in what was at the time Cheshire but after boundary changes the area became known as Merseyside and included all of Liverpool,I have a soft scouse accent mainly because I have worked in Liverpool most of my working life,I don't stretch my "Cs" or "Hs" as true Liverpudlians do, when abroad many people ask we come from even though they can guess we come from "Up North" somewhere.