Welsh accents… what’s the deal?

[@wiganwench1]

You definitely have a Welsh accent to me

[@simonwatkins3236]

Northern accents have got a lot less nasal over the years. Gogs used to be able to put Scousers to shame. but then Scousers are also a lot less nasal.

[@martinhughes2549]

Nasal accents are still a thing in Flint I can confirm.

[@Seffron]

I was working over the border in caer the other week, and for the first time ever I was asked if I was from Wales because of my accent😅 Turns out they were from Anglesey. Must have picked up on the North Walian…

[@ChrisWAnim]

Why do you think English media wants to portray all welsh people as from the valleys? I'm from Pontypridd, with said accent.

[@Knappa22]

I think it was the prevalent accent people across the border were familiar with. Think Gladys Pugh! It’s ridiculous when they have an actor on TV portraying Lloyd George in a documentary or something and he sounds like he’s putting on a Rhondda accent!! Totally inaccurate. I have a rural west Wales accent myself.

[@henryblunt8503]

I saw an old man, born and lived his whole life Flintshire, on TV decades ago (70s probably) with an accent quite different to yours which sounded to me more like English West Midlands. Supposedly this was a result of an influx of workers from the Potteries in England at some time in the Victorian era. You definitely sound more Welsh than he did.

[@HandyWelsh]

With older people in Buckley they had an unusual accent when I was growing up and it was common to say DUCK and MON (man) and words that came from Stoke areas where people had travelled to work. I think it will die out with our generation. As someone who was born in Buckley I should get try to get this documented before it’s lost.

[@henryblunt8503]

@@HandyWelsh Thank you. I'm very glad to get some confirmation that it's not just my memory going to pot tbh. And yes, a good idea to document some of your home town's heritage. Historians of dialect in the future will love you for it.