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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9175610" data-attributes="member: 18">Which would suggest either "pretty much everyone you know" is middle class and from the South or certain parts of the North (true for much of Britain) and thus has some kind of basically Received Pronunciation accent, or you don't really hear accents unless they're quite extreme (like Liverpool/Scouse definitely is!), which isn't a criticism at all, it's just a thing that's true of quite a lot of people. I think maybe it's a bit like face blindness - nobody is bad for having it, it's pretty common (or some degree of it is), it's just a thing that occurs and clearly on a spectrum (disclaimerthisisatheorynotafactpleasedonotattempttoholdmetoit!).For me, I think growing up in London but having parents/relatives with strong accents made me quite sensitive to accents - also I have the classic ADHD thing of having a "drifting accent" myself (I remember reading in the 1990s, before ADHD was really recognised in the UK, some pop psychologist writing in a newspaper - probably The Times - basically doing the speech pattern equivalent of phrenology, confidently claiming everyone with a drifting accent was at best a dangerous criminal in waiting which was just great to read as a kid - we often forget how incredibly hostile to any difference from the norm a lot of supposedly open-minded/educated society actually was in the 1990s), so I have to think about it a bit more and check myself before I wreck myself! For instance by drifting so much it might appear to be mockery or something.</blockquote>

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