Travelling all over the country for work, I've found it easy to pick up a variety of regional accents - I find myself matching the person I'm speaking to a lot of the time but occasionally I let slip with an "oop" in place of an "up" when conversing with my Hertfordshire relatives.
The accent of my adopted part of the world is derived from the Yorkshire miners who settled here over 100 years ago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands_English
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