I'm told my accent gets much more noticeable the angrier I get

North London, I’d guess. Actually, if you really need to hear my voice, go here:

http://www.softpress.com/support/tutorials/LQ/18/

I wonder if you're still considered that in Chavham? When I went up there for my girl related adventure in August, I was universally called posh by everyone of her friends/family/acquaintances. I consider myself to be merely relatively well spoken, with a fairly solid grasp of the English language, a reasonably wide vocabulary, and a chameleonic ability to adapt to my aural surroundings to an extent. This is most prominent in the US, London and in my native county where I do a very reasonable line in mechanic's/old boy's Cornish. It didn't strike me as that difficult to appear posh in a county were few people are able to string a sentence together, and when they can they still sound inexorably uneducated. It's also gratingly harsh from a lot of them.

My parents are both from Swindon, but where my Mum has a wonderful hint of Westcountry in an otherwise quite vanilla accent, my Dad's Dad is from the East End and that shines through. I am however, rather glad that I don't sound Cornish.

My claim to fame is on the same level as Paul's. I'm the voice of the voicemail for just about every company/hotel phone system I installed during my brief stint as a tech! Oh, and I was the voice of Sherlock Holmes locksmiths in Denver, CO, when the guy showed up at my friends house and begged me to record it (is that normal, or eccentric?!)

Doncaster, south Yorkshire

AAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH
Being "well spoken" has no relation on what sort of accent you have.

Mark

I'm amused at the folk saying they have no accent.

It seems to always be me frustrating you, of late.

Being "well spoken" would, as far as I've ever heard it used, indicate a vocabulary more varied than average, with some degree of similarity to received pronunciation.

Would you care to enlighten me with your definition?

im from Bedfordshire, and have a very southern accent. but i can tell its getting more and more Yorkshire every day

My accent seems to vary depending on where I am and/or who I'm talking to.
I have Glasgow accent when talking to parents/family/friends from back home, a bit of a Geordie twang when I speak to my gran and, right now, a generic Cambridgeshire accent with a hint of Fenland. It's all very confusing.
The Scottish comes out more strongly if I've had a few beers

LMFTFY.

Vocabulary has no influence on your accent. Pronunciation may have an influence.
An accent is how you sound when you say something, not what you are saying.
You can speak proper Queen's English but still have an accent whilst you do it.

And it's not just you, Oke, that's seemingly got confused about this in this thread.

Mark

Ha, it was only a matter of time before someone did.

Mark

I don't really have much of an accent nowadays.

Born and raised in Brum, had a strong Brummie accent. Moved down south to uni and lost it within three months.

I've had patients wonder where I come from because they can't pick up an accent. They're surprised when I tell them. Occasionally I'll say something that comes out with a Brummie twang.

Having moved back to Brum, I'm now fearful of regaining that accent!

birmingham accent is horrid

I love it. Our neighbours where I grew up were Brummies. A couple of my friends live in and around Brum, too. It's a fabulous down-to-earth worker's accent. No messin', no hoity-toity nonsense.

Apart from "Estuary English", which is a sort of bastardised, watered-down London accent which afflicts most of the south east these days, most of the UK's accents and dialects are fabulous to listen to.

Mark, I have a neutral accent. It's neither one thing or another, what with having Irish grandparents on one side, and Norfolk on the other, and when the chameleon circuit kicks in I can blend happily almost anywhere if I choose.