In My Liverpool Home
To the untrained ear, my accent sounds Liverpudlian. And to a certain extent, it is. Whenever anyone asks me where I'm originally from, if I'm giving the very high level answer, I tend to say "near Liverpool". Which isn't untrue; it's just maybe a bit vague. Accents in the North West of England are very specific. In the distance from Liverpool to Manchester, you cross many different accents and all in the space of 40 miles or so. But if you're not from the area, you tend to just think of accents such as mine as "Scouse". Of course, growing up I didn't think I had an accent. Just as growing up in a family where every household was a smoking household you become immune to the smell of cigarette smoke. Nowadays I can smell the smoke on my clothes long after leaving the smoky place, but back then it was just normal and as everything smelled the same way, I never noticed. But nowadays I hear the accents up here, and then sound Liverpu