Things we do to fit in"When I was fifteen," writes No3L, "I curled up in a Budgens trolley while someone pushed it through the supermarket doors to nick vodka and Benny Hedgehogs, just to hang out with my brother and his mates."
What have you done to fit in?
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chthonic, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 12:30)
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Me too (sort of)Despite being brought up in Telford (where the local accent is a strange hybrid of Brummy and Welsh) as a child I had a ridiculously posh accent. No idea why because my parents didn't.
As you can imagine at school I took a lot of stick for my voice, being called "posh" and "stuck up" (despite coming from a solid working class background). So I too modified my accent. I no longer sound posh, but neither did I adopt a Telford accent (thank god!) I now sound like I'm from . . . well, nowhere. It's just a generic English accent. And I kind of hate it sometimes, to the point of changing my voice to fit in with my surroundings.
The latest example of this was when I was in Peckham, doing a job. I went into the Woolworths (remember them?) to buy a drink. The til lady gave me my change and I said to her "Any chaaarnce of a receipt, laarve?" in the most hideous South-London brogue you can imagine!
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