Utterly impossible.
Feb. 10th, 2006 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stevieannieTrying to sing "Dead Men Walking" in my Essex accent.
Keep crying because I sound like my Mum and my Nan. I don't recognise it when I talk like it (usually when in the company of my family), but trying to *sing* like it? I just sound like all the other women in my family, and that's... emotional.
I wonder how many people will actually recognise an Essex accent these days? So many people seem to think that an Essex accent is that horrible mangled London/Estuary english aberration.
I can't even begin to phonetically spell how the accent sounds, but it is rich and lovely, and makes me think of Brightlingsea, the smell of the Colne Estuary, the wind in the dingy masts and the lighted buoys through the channel home. Don't know if I'll ever be able to do this one as Tim suggested it (in the brogue), but it's an interesting experiment in discovering that the apple doesn't fall awfully far from the tree!
Keep crying because I sound like my Mum and my Nan. I don't recognise it when I talk like it (usually when in the company of my family), but trying to *sing* like it? I just sound like all the other women in my family, and that's... emotional.
I wonder how many people will actually recognise an Essex accent these days? So many people seem to think that an Essex accent is that horrible mangled London/Estuary english aberration.
I can't even begin to phonetically spell how the accent sounds, but it is rich and lovely, and makes me think of Brightlingsea, the smell of the Colne Estuary, the wind in the dingy masts and the lighted buoys through the channel home. Don't know if I'll ever be able to do this one as Tim suggested it (in the brogue), but it's an interesting experiment in discovering that the apple doesn't fall awfully far from the tree!
