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Ayup lass
Me accents never stopped me get'n a job, nor showing a profes'nl facade t' clients.
Now if tha dunt mind I'm off t' feed t'whippet d'wn this gennel ee by eck.
Made it!
I've been quoted - I feel I've made it now!
And my quote doesn't give away the fact that I'm actually 'reet comun'.
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Never fear. No mother insulting going on here. I have no clue what you said, for all I know you could be insulting my mother.
Now if tha dunt mind I'm off t' feed t'whippet d'wn this gennel ee by eck.
Now, if you don't mind, I am off to feed the whippet down this alley, golly gosh.
Well, roughly anyway. I have a Home Counties accent, but Northern and Welsh parents. (one of each)
Speaking as one who went through school life with one of the strongest Geordie accents ever and attended a pretty low rate university, I am increasingly irritated by entitlement whingers who would use any excuse to get an undeserved leg up.
If we can't discriminate on the grounds of ability, diction and presentation we might as well recruit by lottery.
Haway the lads
Y man different accents automatically lead to instant decisions on that person
This is why HMRC have tax collectors in Scotland. The accent sounds hard and its meant to make people pay.
If you have a yorkshire accent people think you are a little slow ( unlucky Andy)
A scouse one and you are a crook
A southern one you are posh
if you are welsh you are friendly and slow
But most of all Geordie is canny as jlsmith above wrote because:
Sitel, the Top Inbound Call Centre Outsourcing Vendor as listed by the Black Book of Outsourcing, today announced the results of a new study on call centre trends. The study, which surveyed more than 2,000 people across the UK, found that the Geordie accent is not only the friendliest in the UK, it is also most likely to put you in a ‘good mood,’ according to respondents. Geordie also ranked amongst the top five accents in the categories of trustworthy, helpful and efficient, traits respondents cited as important when speaking to a call centre representative.
And as an accountant fundamentaly your clients have to trust you marra.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/geordie-sayings-top-...
I have also nearly come to blows with someone that ''spelk'' isn't geordie and its proper English ...
Aufweidersein Pet
to Tom7000
As a Yorkshire man living in the Midlands I must step up and challenge you. The majority of accent studies show Yorkshire accents as being 'friendly & trustworthy' whereas brummies are assumed to be a bit thick! I may have pointed these sorts of studies out to colleagues previously.
They never give details about who they ask for these opinions though so I take it all with a massive pinch of salt.