Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Everyone has an accent.

But southerners tend to be the worst for imagining that they don't have
an accent. Years ago when I worked in Essex, briefly. I can recall
someone turning to me in the staff canteen and saying "Ere you ayent
'alf gotter funny accent intit?"

I pointed out that she had a funny accent too, and she refused to
believe that her accent was anything other than RP. Mind you post Tony
Blair, everyone seems to talk like that in the southeast.