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Its exactly the same with me, I generally have a RP accent, but the occasional word comes out West Country. From my experience, people are always more sensitive at hearing other people's accents than their own - at Uni, there are lots of people with what sound like strong northern accents to me...

Yeovil, Somerset, England - Home of Shadow, a Ninja Superhero who fights crime. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpZbNAdOy7g

I'd say that the North/South thing tends to leave out us in the South-West, who just end up being the brunt of everyones jokes - but yeah, it's generally been a class division thing, as well as political differences (Labour tends to have greater support in the North, the Conservatives in the south)

I'm currently studying in Italy, and left my gaming PC back in England... I will be getting it the moment I arrive back in the country for christmas!

Red Ink may not be a barrier to your personal learning, but it can be a barrier to the learning of a significant minority. As the son of a SENCO (special educational needs coordinator) I've spent a good period of my life learning the "dos and donts" of making learning accessible to certain...

I wasn't really named by my parents, but by my grandmother - no-one had any idea what to call me, until she pointed out that she was reading a book about Alexander the Great...