The OP is from the North of UK. There is very little in the UK you can do within your own life to truly "change" class. You can change your accent, I guess, but people will always know and treat you differently at some point.
Yes! Depressing. They don't exist or get dropped. It's a sad fact. I only know one person who speaks MLE and some public school Scottish people who have basically a RP accent. Karl Friston has a Northern accent (check his "because" pronunciation) but I'm sure went to pub school.
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I'll have to get you to rate my accent at some point because it's a humungous mess.
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Where are you from?
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EVERYWHERE
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More specifically I grew up in Edinburgh but my mum has an aussie accent which has clearly rubbed off on me. I frequently get identified by random people as having an American accent which is entertaining as I was born there but lived there for about a year.
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People tell me I have a thick America accent, a VERY British accent, a Northern accent, and once or twice a Welsh accent!
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I also speak Greek however hard I try with a thick AF Cypriot accent. Even when I try not to use Cypriot Greek and try to speak Modern Greek... Mainlanders consider this either low class or nouveau riche. I get anti-Semitism and Islamophobia directed at me for it too.
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The Middle East is confusing even for our neighbors.
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I must admit, I do have to dial it back (and mine isn’t that strong) mainly because non-native English speakers struggle a bit rather than for any other reason
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The fact they struggle is a byproduct of classism. If the people who taught English had accents students would learn how to understand them!
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