uk regional dialect

[lewis1641]

i find it amazing and interesting that after all these years we still have regional dialect and accents. the world has gradually been getting smaller as communications improve at a phenomonal rate yet we are still using words and phrases whics someone 50 miles away doesnt understand.

i remember going to a festival and buying an egg stottie from a caterer from the north east - i had to ask what it was! (egg sandwhich)

i have a mate from newcastle who i catch every third word and have to make up the rest.

i really dislike my accent (scunthorpe, north lincolnshire) it is really dull and makes me sound really stupid (i cringe if i hear myself on an answer machine.


the only localisms i can think of at the moment are "mardy" (in an bad mood "you are a mardy cow tonight" and one i really hate and refuse to ever use - referring to a roundabout as a "circle"

 

[longun]

aye up chief, put brew machine on an thee ave quick yarn.

 

[Rumble]

Doric is alive and well in the God's Country (North-East of Scotland), more so amongst the teuchters than the toonsers though.

My favourite phrase, and one I try and use whenever possible is a "foggy bummer", some people call them bumblebees!

 

[Neil]

aye up chief, put brew machine on an thee ave quick yarn.

Beautiful accent, that. Unmistakable. Cornwall, isn't?

And that, my friend, is how you channel Johnny English without emoticons, or faux xml mark-up.

 

[taffy]

aye up chief, put brew machine on an thee ave quick yarn.

Beautiful accent, that. Unmistakable. Cornwall, isn't?

And that, my friend, is how you channel Johnny English without emoticons, or faux xml mark-up.

Cockney ?

 

[longun]

true lincs, with a hint of devon, somerset and scotland. travelled far and lived wide i have

having the pleasure of intergrating with many southerners and northerners, i find lincs very normal.no twang, as such. you can measure an accent by the amount of times its used in comedy, not neccissarily in a bad way, but lets be honest, lincs is very clear and bold, in the dark villages tho,theres very disturbing thrases.........but then again i lived in plymouth and never "got" some cornish thrases.

its a funny old world, if we all spoke proper,tid be boring, like everyone driving vectras lol, listening to shinia twain (?spell)

 

[saltyman]

I'm a born and bred Geordie and the amount of folk Who I get saying they love my Newcastle accent is crazy, strangely they can't understand me much, yet while here (lake district) I can understand everything these Cumbrians say!

 

[FMJ]

You all sound the same to me.

 

[makster]

You all sound the same to me.

Especially when typed

 

[lewis1641]

I'm a born and bred Geordie and the amount of folk Who I get saying they love my Newcastle accent is crazy, strangely they can't understand me much, yet while here (lake district) I can understand everything these Cumbrians say!

I was going to use you as an example but didn't dare call you a geordie in case you just sounded like one but actually hail from 0.75 metres outside the designated zone