Accent and voice ponderings

[burntcopper]

Inspired by tenebraeli's ponderings on this.

See, I think of myself as fairly normal middle-class Berkshire Estuarite, having grown up here since I was five, and gone to a school which was a jumped-up snobby grammar school which bore a slight resemblance to an exam-results-obsessed St Trinian's. With possibly a hint of Cornish when I lived there, but only then.

Except I keep being mistaken for a Kiwi.

Of course, when I *listen* to my voice when recorded, it sounds nothing like I think of it. The answerphone is fairly flat. Customer service voice gradually becomes Tour Guide Barbie. Asking questions to guests at conventions brings out this *terribly* plummy voice, probably because I'm enunciating.

So, for all of those who've met me... whayt the hell do I sound like?

Comments

[cynicalcylon.livejournal.com]

At least the Kiwi accent is relatively soft, & often mistook for other accents. I just keep getting mistaken for an Australian.
I mean, I know my English accent is rather non-descript, but Australian?!?