Are you a native English speaker Janette?

I might speak in a more rushed and colloquial style amongst friends but at work, and when speaking to my turkish friends, I use more formal language and speak more clearly. When I email my Turkish friends I use formal English, because I know they´ll learn from it.  One of my Turkish friends prides himself on his standard of English and I must say it´s excellent.  I tend to use more challenging words when I email him, in order to broaden his vocabulary (I know he will look up the word).  It´s the same with idioms etc. I will use them in emails in order to broaden the knowledge of the recipient.

Although I´ve lived in the North West of England for most of my life, I wasn´t born there and I´ve lived in more than a handful of areas of England, as well as abroad.  I would class myself as from the North West, but people can´t always detect this from my accent. 

"For example.... i would type dint instead of didn´t or summat instead of something."

Do you mean you would write this if you were a non native English speaker, listening to English natives from the North?

However informal my language might be orally, I wouldn´t use it when writing.  That brings me to another annoyance (for me) . . . text messages!  I have OCD and hate to abbreviate or use lower case when there should be a capital letter (mainly I/i).  Thankfully I have unlimited texts so I can tap away endlessly .

....aha!  That naughty milkman again!  

My favourite English accents:

North East - "Geordie"

The Liverpool accent, but not too "thick" (my dad´s a Liverpudlian)

I also like the Welsh and Southern Irish accent.

Sorry, but I´m not keen on:

The Birmingham accent (Brum?) - but it´s growing on me

the Nottingham accent

Mancunian (Manchester/Manchestah) - this one can vary. It´s the more "street" version that I don´t like.

I also cringe when I hear myself speaking on  recorded video or audio . . . yuk!

Or naughty Empire builders of the past perhaps?

How ´bout non-errors (Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English.)

For example:

Off of

For most Americans, the natural thing to say is “Climb down off of [pronounced “offa”] that horse, Tex, with your hands in the air”; but many UK authorities urge that the “of” should be omitted as redundant. Where British English reigns you may want to omit the “of” as superfluous, but common usage in the US has rendered “off of” so standard as to generally pass unnoticed, though some American authorities also discourage it in formal writing. But if “onto” makes sense, so does “off of.” However, “off of” meaning “from” in phrases like “borrow five dollars off of Clarice” is definitely nonstandard.

Quoted from: here

I read somewhere that Londoners say "fink" instead of "think" (or pronounce it as such)

I fink I need a cup of coffee.

I´m on a roll

We had a training session, related to Literacy, last week.  The speaker referred to the letter "H/h" (aitch) as "haitch" . . . boy that really annoys me!!!!

Yes, it does happen, and not only in London.  I work in a school in Blackburn (North West England) and "f" for "th" is rife.  The trouble is, the children carry it through into their writing.  That´s one of the issues I cover with my Queen´s crown

Me too!! - and it´s amazing how many people use it which is strange because it´s actually more awkward to say ´haitch´ than ´aitch´ when you ´fink abaht it´!  

English accents I don´t like much are Brummy, and basically any of the ´middle-England´ ones - Leics, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk etc.  Favourites are Geordie and Devon or Cornwall accents. .  

P.S. ....For the sake of not causing any offence - having a horrible accent doesn´t necessarily make you a horrible person!  

You guys are the last few native English speakers on the earth who still regard the English accent, the English nativeness, this and that level, sounding a native speaker important/vital! Guys, let me remind you of the fact that the year is 2010! And you still tend to be busy with the above mentioned points! You may find it saddening, but today no non-native English speaker cares what their accent/level is and how good their pronunciation is! Hundreads of millions of Indian, Chineses, Japanese, Russian, Arabs and more speak terrible (yes, terrible!) English in every respect, but they don´t care simply because neither they nor their trading English and American partners have time to take care of this since nowadays only the ability for basic communication counts - that´s why this basic communication has become enough for a Dubaian Arab to trade with an British/American trader or for a Turkish resort worker to put a blonde British into the bed! Don´t expect the blonde British to care of the resort worker´s accent or his english nativeness level!