General Chat

Off golfing now, but seems' mrs bucket' is not too far-fetched after all. happy days

Having worked in a call centre, I suppose I do have a telephone voice, possibly enunciating certain words more and so on. The thing is, having done enough job interviews now, you learn how to sound and present yourself at your most assured and most confident. If that means you're well spoken then so be it.

Air hellair, Harry! One is familiar with the concept. I used to work in a large department of a huge company, where we were involved in the office side of worldwide operations. We used to have a duty rota for people who could be called up out of office hours if a difficult situation arose in a different time zone. It was my job to work out the duty officers' rotas and to record the answerphone message for the emergency number. Unfortunately, the tapes we used in the machine were so old that, unless I spoke extremely precisely and clearly, callers would often mis-hear or get confused. So it was very much a case of the 'Margo Leadbetter' voice when recording the tape. I also find it works better if I'm ringing someone to make a complaint. Sometimes I've even been called 'Madam' ! (If only they knew!) O' course, I get back ter talkin' proper after, don' I? Narta mean, guv? LoL CB >|< X

I think most of us tend to try to speak more clearly on the phone and also sound 'posh' when answering unless we know who is on the other end. My brother's friends always said I sounded 'posh' when answering the phone when I lived at home. My husband's voice is always deeper when he answers and he goes up a bit when he recognises who it is! nell

my mum has a telephone voice lol...i sound about ten when im on the phone nevermind posh!!

i dont think i talk posh! lol i do have a work voice tho - again dont think its posh just take a different tone when working with older people or younger depending which job im doing! lol my mum has a phone voice tho and its so funny - xx

I'm not posh at all but apparently have a 'Telephone Voice' according to my daughters. It's not for general chat but used when speaking to headteachers, who might perhaps employ me. I think alot of us change the manner of our speech depending on the circumstance, - on or off the phone.

Paper this morning in a rather unscientific survey says that a lot of people talk 'posh' on the telephone. On this channel, we are all 'dead posh' anyway, but perhaps you have ' a friend'who just might do that kind of thing. happy days