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Voices 2005

By Karen Slater

Time to speak up! The BBC is celebrating language, accents and dialects across the British Isles with the launch of it's unique Voices project!

The BBC have set out to discover the differences in how we speak, as part of the Voices 2005 project.

Working online and with radio, we want to know whether you like your accent.

Are you proud of the way you sound or do you wish you had another accent?

If you could have any UK accent, what would it be, and why?

Getting in touch is easy peasy, drop us an email with your name and contact details and we'll take it from there!

But in the mean time, you may want to have a play on the Voices 2005 game 'Wordly Wise?' to see what we already know about our language... (The game can be found at the top right of this page.)

last updated: 27/06/07

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Mike O'Malley
The Tees lies inbetween two strong regional accents nortumbria and yorkshire and its people had to be understood by both for commerce,hence the mild accent of the area.TV now has a greater influence on the accent,due to the less tribal people of the area.

peter galloway
a lot of 'regional' accents are awful to hear, I prefer 'BBC English' as opposed to 'posh', there is a big difference, but at least the BBC lingo is pleasant and easily understood, anywhere.

Kathy Kirkbright
I am not from this area. The accent is not easily recognized outside the region. Sometimes it is mistaken for a Geordie accent and there seem to be traces of scouse in it too. When first came here 33 years ago I found some words hard to understand. e.g. canny, shot (throw) back arch, bad (ill) but there does not seem to be a lot of dialect compared with some areas.

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