As someone who has a right mix of ancestry I have always been fascinated by accents. My mother was born in Brum and my father in Ireland. I was born in Coventry and raised in Perth, Scotland. Go back a few generations on my Irish family side and there you find Jones' from Wales!
To all my friends I sound English or Posh Edinburgh. My father thinks I sound right Scottish as do any of my relatives in England- it's amazing how much an accent depends on who is listening to it. I always find it amusing when we go back to the Midlands to visit relatives and my father's accent changes slightly although he doesn't notice it. The key word is "Albany". In his "at home" accent he would say all-bany. As soon as he gets off that train at Coventry station its a sharp "Al-banee".
My father always had to be adaptable with his accent when growing up. Once when trying to explain he and his two friends slight drunkeness to his fearsome Irish grandmother he had to switch between Cork and Midland accents so everyone could understand each other.
To all my friends I sound English or Posh Edinburgh. My father thinks I sound right Scottish as do any of my relatives in England- it's amazing how much an accent depends on who is listening to it. I always find it amusing when we go back to the Midlands to visit relatives and my father's accent changes slightly although he doesn't notice it. The key word is "Albany". In his "at home" accent he would say all-bany. As soon as he gets off that train at Coventry station its a sharp "Al-banee".
My father always had to be adaptable with his accent when growing up. Once when trying to explain he and his two friends slight drunkeness to his fearsome Irish grandmother he had to switch between Cork and Midland accents so everyone could understand each other.