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I remember my friend's little sister had a pretty strong Wiltshire accent, and my friends told me I did after I moved to their area, don't think you can hear Wiltshire in my accent at all any more though.
I remember my friend's little sister had a pretty strong Wiltshire accent, and my friends told me I did after I moved to their area, don't think you can hear Wiltshire in my accent at all any more though.
too many townie "incomers" moving to the west country from London and the home counties(especially to Devon and Cornwall) which puts up the price of housing, the young people cannot afford to buy where they were brought up so they move away and never come back, the only people in my area who have a broad Devon accent are the old boys who were "born here, lived here and will die here" and they are all dying off rapidly.
The Pompey accent seems is very popular in Portsmouth, in fact almost every young person speaks with a Pompey (almost cockney) accent.
As for the West Country. I know old people with accents, but rarely anyone my age, though I know some do. You will get the odd Dorset accent in Swanage, but mostly people my age (Teenager/young adult) talk with an estuary accent. I know many people my age living in Bristol who have a very western accent...
I like the West Country accent. Russel Howard is from Bristol - listen to his voice and you might get an idea of what people generally sound like.
Accents in general are 'diluted' nowadays. Only the older generation in Yorkshire, for example, have a really broad Yorkshire accent - and usually in the rural parts. In university cities like Leeds and Sheffield in particular, there are so many people from elsewhere in the UK and abroad, that the Yorkshire accent has been diluted significantly. There are loads of southerners from London/Surrey/Hertfordshire here.
In fact, most people cannot guess where I am from based on my accent alone, because it isn't strong.
Are you sure? Being from Yorkshire, I doubt you pronounce Bath with a broad(or long) A, where it instead rhymes with trap for you. And, the foot-strut split in your speech must be absent. I know these features are common in 90% of those living North of Northampton.
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