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I travel around South Wales all week (skip driver) and the difference in accents is huge.
I work from Brynmawr, and 8 miles north on the A465 is Abergavenny who sound quite posh, and 8 miles south on the A465 is Merthyr who sound as Welshy (not sure that's a word) as you can get. Then there's the difference in Cardiff and Newport accents who border each other.
Is there a similar accent change in Cardiff? ie can a Splotty tell a Thornhill by their accent?
I struggle to tell the difference between rct port Talbot and Swansea.
A kid in work from Llanharan commented on a women in works accent she is from Tonypandy . He said she had a taffy accent I said so do you!
I m Canton born and lived in Cardiff all my life.
Same here.
I cant tell if someone is from the valleys or Swansea either. I think it must be down to not hearing your own accent so you spot the subtle nuances in others more easily.
I've been on holiday and had people think I'm from Bristol in the past, and I think they sound totally different
Have often been asked if I'm from north east England.
Once as a kid while in a chippy in Portsmouth asking if they served curry sauce,
The guy behind the counter thought I was speeking French!!
i was over the moon when working in wolverhampton 3 years ago when some woman tapped me on the shoulder in the canteen and said what part of Kairdiff i was from !
she was originally from tremorfa so she should understood the lingo so refreshing amongst the black country droners !
I reckon that there's a difference between the east of cardiff and the south. The south is more traditional Cardiff accent, quite gruffy and to the point and more pronounced. The east is a bit lazy, 'arrighh lurve' The south is more 'Orite luv' There's a definite difference in the accent in the more affluent areas.
I find Bridgend a strange one, being from there, everyone seems to have a very neutral accent, strange considering there are such strong/distinctive accents either side of us
I can't say I'd noticed any difference between east and south Cardiff accents, having lived in the former and worked in the latter. There is of course, a noticeable difference between accents in say.. Cyncoed/Lisvane and that of Ely/Llanrumney; however, you'll always have that difference in accents between middle class and working class suburbs, no matter where in the world you go.
I left Cardiff when I was twenty and have lived elsewhere for the last four decades, mostly in England. Although I couldn't hear my own accent when living away, I could hear my almost Scouse-like, grating
Cardiff vowels when pronouncing words such as 'banana', 'curtain,' 'work', 'park', 'Cardiff', 'dark' and 'word' - and modified them accordingly. My brother, who left Cardiff (and Wales) at the age of 17 still has those sounds in his vocabulary.
There are linguistic experts who probably can. I don't know if you're old enough to remember the "Yorkshire Ripper" tapes? They were tapes sent to George Oldfield, the Senior Investigator of the Yorkshire Ripper enquiry. The tapes were a hoax, but taken seriously by Oldfield. A linguistics expert was able to pin point the accent to a particular housing estate on Wearside.
I agree, I think you can tell Ely from a Rumney etc, South Cardiff from the posh northern suburbs. I had to call the dvla in jackland the other day, I couldn’t understand a word the woman was saying and asked to be transferred to someone less welshie....some valley and port talbot areas I just nod and agree
People fro, the docks sound different to the classic cardiff accent ...... or maybe their accent is the "original" classic cardiff accent.
Going north, where does the accent change to valleys ? I feel like a Caerffili accent is a little cardiffy. Listen to Rambo's acccent.
Through the gap between the Garth and castle Coch is where it all changes.....some say we should build a wall to keep them out....
I remember reading that accents in Britain noticeably change every 15 miles. I think Britain is fairly unique in the number of accents it has.
No doubt they're becoming more watered down as people move more.
I watch a lot of boxing on Box Nation and Ely boy, Barry Jones is a regular.
My Missus is from Neath and reckons I sound just like him whereas I notice a lot of differences being from St Mellons/Llanrumney.
I’d say us in the East are the middle men between the “normal” Kairdiff accent and Newport.