It me. Got to uni, found I was constantly having to repeat myself, started consciously Anglicizing because it was so much less effort. (In recent years I've decided screw this for a game of soldiers and tried pushing myself back to a Belfast accent, but old habits die hard.)
"You have a wonderful telephone voice!" Thanks I've spent years disguising my regional accent in order to be taken seriously by the middle class
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I learned incredibly early in life that masking my Brummie roots was valuable to cause others to take me seriously. What's really sad is that this has led to me now fighting my own bias against regional accents in others. However I don't think I want to 'return' to brummie :D
Apr 29, 2021 ยท 8:36 AM UTC
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