# Question about British regional accents

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-british-regional-accents/1010481>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 20, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-british-regional-accents/1010481 "2024-11-20T03:09:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-british-regional-accents/1010481/41 "2024-11-22T07:47:44Z")

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I’m pretty certain there’s a golden retriever in there…

Not a sentence I thought I’d ever say.

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-british-regional-accents/1010481/42 "2024-11-22T17:46:30Z")

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> [@iamatractorboy](#):
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> Not a sentence I thought I’d ever say.

At least you’re just saying it, remember **Old Scratch**? He once admitted to performing analingus on a golden retriever.

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**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-british-regional-accents/1010481/43 "2024-11-24T01:20:05Z")

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> [@BertNobbins](#):
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> Well I’ve experienced it at least five times. I hope that counts as evidence

So, you were where no one could see you and you heard them clearly speaking English, then when you walked into the room, everyone looked at you, then started speaking Welsh? And you talked to them and they acted like they couldn’t understand you.

Also, so? You are not entitled to hearing people’s private conversations. What they were talking about was Not Your Business.

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**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-british-regional-accents/1010481/44 "2024-11-24T14:58:39Z")

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> [@BertNobbins](#):
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> It certainly isn’t like Wales, where the locals switch to Welsh when a non-Welshman walks in.

This is part of a whole range of calumnies applied by the English to people from Wales:

“Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief” (A well-known nursery rhyme)  
Various “jokes” about sheep-shagging.  
“welsh on your debts”

The Welsh language includes many English words that have no translation, so a visitor to a pub in a Welsh-speaking area may well hear some English words mixed in.

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