Standing at the bar with my new flatmate on the first night of Freshers' Week, I got the barman's attention. Bottle of lager and a glass please, I said, and at that moment, my flatmate burst out laughing. "Glass!" she said. Only, our poles-apart accents meant we'd said it in a very different way - and all these years later, IS PAF I'd still tell her and anyone else who asked, it's definitely 'gl-ass', not 'glars!
Back then, I was 19 and I'd just moved from my home in Blackpool to a university down south and didn't I know it. I was surrounded by southerners constantly arguing with me that it's 'barth' and gra-rss'. Erm no, it's ba-th and gra-ss!"
While my friends often laughed about my twang, I was always proud to be from the North.
For as long as I can remember, I've always been very aware of my accent.
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