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I think Shant is more widespread. I know some people who were born and live in Kent who use it to term 'heavy drinking night out.'..'.going out on the shant?'

When you spell it like that it looks like a speech impediment, but saying it, it's true. shtraight....but doesn't every Southerner? say that?

I would love to hear it. Living and working in the South, with the majority of born and bred Southerners - i never feel like I have an accent.

See, I find the Chichester accent the first change in accent, as it becomes closer to the Pompey/Gosport twang.

and what is your accent?

i've worked with many northerners that have toned down their original regional accents to the point that it's no longer noticeable. Apart from the odd 'baath, or grass' slip, you wouldn't know. I wonder if there was once definitive Brighton/Sussex accent that's been changed by all the non...

That's actually more like it. That said there are probably variances in accent between East Brighton, Central Hove, and North Hove.

See I thought it was more Brigh'n (no T) that was commonly sung.

I noticed whilst in Hampshire the other week, that they seem to have a slight regional accent, then as you move into Dorset and across it gets more pronounced. Essex also has a distinctive accent. Kent and Surrey seem to speak broadly with the same accent as we do in Sussex. However, I have a...