I've wondered that. So many kids get into their teens and then drop their family / local accent and start following the trend, looks like Abz just stuck with it until it became his normal speech pattern.


You find it outside London too. There are lads on bikes who hang about outside my Tesco Express who talk like that...in a rural village miles from London.

Much more realistic name for it than MLE.

A few contestants on Jeremy Kyle seem to have that accent too.

Its the accent of a sub culture. He is perfectly entitled to use it.

Yes, the adopted accent.
I don't think anyone's suggesting he's not entitled yto you use it.
For instance I'm going to be a Scouser until mid-November, do Somerset up to Christmas and then convert to BBC received pronunciation for the New Year.

Oh dear, it must be bad then. Glad you're not snobbish at all.

No I wasn't describing a pick and mix lets choose an accent. The one he has is a living accent in the circles he moves in and socialises with. In that sense its pretty organic not forced.

But he lives in Wales

Maybe he has a Welsh accent when he's at home.

How much of his life has been spent in Wales?

Like it. I'm hoping Abz adopts the Indian accent next to go with the spiritualist zen role he's chosen to play.

I keep wondering is he really jamaican

peop y don't get it do they lool Jamaican seriously?have you guys seen how jamicans talk? abz has muticultural London accent a fairly new accent that has been around since the 80s or 90s, many people speak like him.

This - jeez, some people on here are so out of touch with modern culture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwDgA9LUVMA This is Jamaican accent.

I thought it was Mafioso.

tell me about it. its the same when mc Harvey and the judo boy was on it.