(This is not a really serious verse but here goes anyway . .)

I say ‘was’ instead of ‘were’

And I come from a council estate

Wish I had a voice like Richard Burton

But instead I talk like this

I spent years in a no hope comprehensive

And maybe lack of grammar shows me up

Maybe I should get myself a tutor

-Can’t be that expensive

So would my friends still recognise me

If my pronunciation improved?

Who does he think he is they’d say;

A BBC presenter for a day?

So; I’m a northern lad with a northern voice

And I’ll always talk this way

I'll no longer hide behind a curtain

(Though I wish I sounded  like Richard Burton.)