Snoxy Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 I can speak Essex...and Bedfordshire...does that count Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 I was born to an Irish mother and a very absent American GI father I was adopted by an English mother and a Scottish father (my adopted great great grandfather was Harry Lauder) I married a Welshman. I learned Latin, French and German at school, can't speak a word of any of them Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedusA Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 I was (and still am) a staunch Yorkist. Richard III was a victim of Tudor propaganda! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 (my adopted great great grandfather was Harry Lauder) Wow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 (my adopted great great grandfather was Harry Lauder) Wow You can curtsey if you like TBH I've never been a fan of all that 'Roamin' in the Gloamin' stuff. Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirkwood Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 i am a boggy foot born and breed but i do speak some polish, some norweign, some lithuanian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Pure and simply Scottish born and bred and very proud of it although I dont like the roaming in the gloaming bit either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 although I dont like the roaming in the gloaming bit either! Neither do I but I didn't want to insult your ancestry, Tessa . It's OK to do it now because you've said you don't like it either . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 what an interesting thread reading where everyone comes from. I was born in Devon ( I speak fluent "dumpling" "Oooo arrrhhhh") My mum was born in Germany and my grandmother (mum's mum) is from the Ukraine (still very much Ukrainian), my nan was in a labour camp in WW2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairy&cake Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 i'll soon be typing to you all from Long Islande NYC. We've just put 50% down on a sea front appartment with 2 of our best friends. yay! How exciting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 My heritage is not exciting either. I was born in Wales, to Welsh parents, with a German granddad - still holding the German surname, and now live in England with a "switchable" accent - I no longer speak with my rather rough and common Valleys Welsh day to day but it pop's back whenever I spend time in Wales, or with Welsh people. It's fun watching people guess where I come from just from my accent, or by seeing my name There's even a Polish guy at Salsa that added me as a friend on Facebook as he thought I was a Pole! A xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Ooh I think that's quite exciting, actually! Interesting you say that .... anyone else noticed that regional accents become much stronger when people return 'home'? (I don't have an accent, of course, as I'm from London. We talk normally, everyone else talks funny! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 I don't have an accent either...at least I can't hear it! Him Indoors says I sound like Bernard Manning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Him Indoors says I sound like Bernard Manning. As long as you don't look like him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Not yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoxy Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 People are surprised when I tell them I was born and bred in Essex...lived there for 34.5 yrs but somehow don't have an Essex accent...although I can still hear my Dad saying 'pe roll' instead of petrol...ah lovely...bless him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 i'll soon be typing to you all from Long Islande NYC. We've just put 50% down on a sea front appartment with 2 of our best friends. yay! How exciting. Have you come into some money then Laura? I thought you were skint! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairy&cake Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 (edited) LOL, thats not really for you to know. I've never been skint, im too clever for that. I've recently sold some property in this country though that i bought when i was 17 and 18 and i've put a offer in on a 32 acre small holding for me and the boys! And we plan to rent it out to recouperate the morgage repayments. Edited April 28, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairy&cake Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 * Edit - recoup the NY apparment by renting it out. LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 WOW you guys are so cleaver, I just about manage English oh & gaelic if I've had too much to drink apparently used to chat to my Irish grannie when I was little Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
