uk regional dialect

[rosstheboss]

We wunt be druv!!!! (look it up!)

I work all over the country and the item to have the most random local name is the humble bun, or is it a roll, or a barm or cob or a teacake.... Just put some bacon between two pieces of bread and feed me!!!!

It is amazing how quickly accents change, but then look at Europe - the entire language changes over a few miles!

It's all that south coast cockney shite spoken down here, although I do know a fair few people that have a distinct Sussex twang, which is refreshing to hear.

I remember working in Lowestoft and having one of the local farmers to help us get stuff on the roof, he'd never left the county but sounded almost Australian!! Maybe watching too much Neighbours and Home and Away but I doubt it - it makes you wonder where the US/Canadian/Oz/NZ accents come from.

 

[lumos2000]

i sometime take forigen studets for conversation classes to try and improve pronunciation. regional accents come up a lot as its one thing learning the language and another understanding us lot.
also i find myself picking up peoples accents when talking to them and most people think im taking the piss.
my local accent is dying out but my grandad sounded just like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0AoAJw4igc

my other grandads from scotland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0DGA2VV3cI

 

[Tazio]

The problem with being Scottish (or Northern Irish) is that even when you attempt to speak polite correct English for people they still don't understand as we tend to speak very quickly.

The only real problem I have had understanding other people was working in Wolverhampton. And Cork, but I'm not even convinced they speak the same language as us.

 

[dbmtb]

Talking to my ex is always a laugh. She never had much of a Danish accent when speaking English - but a bit of one. Then she met me and we lived near Staines - I'm from Barnsley and we lived for a while in Manchester. Now she lives in LA and her accent has elements of every single place she's lived.

 

[Dr S]

My accent is all over the place. Grew up in Barnsley (Eyup Cock), moved to Manchestor (Orr- hiight) and now live in Northumberland (Alreet). My accent is generally not too strong but with a deffinate northern twang. However, if I spend more than a few hours with anyone from those places I unconciously revert to a stronger accent from that part of the world. I had a customer in on Tuesday from Rotherham and within an hour I was broad Yorkshire again ...'Nar then cock, arrecon if 'tha giz thara good welp wi t'hammer thal-er harrit sowerted'. Tommorrow I'm riding with Kaya who is from the wrong side of the Pennines and by the time I get home I'll be all Mancunian again.

Love the Wessex/ West Country accent by the way, but can't stand the Brummie accent. Sorry, no offence meant, but its just horrid.

Si

 

[JeRkY]

My parents brought me up to have as little traceable accent as possible. To the point where it saddens me when I return home to my beloved Yorkshire and am automatically assumed by people who don't know me to be from down south.

Whilst down south they tend to pick up on a slight northern twang but generally cant place me within 100 miles of where I am from. I am also convinced my accent has grown more northern since moving south, perhaps in an unconscious display of pride for my home county.

 

[cyfa2809]

Not sure of the slangs we have down here, sure there are some though!

Bristolians sound cornish. I dont like birmigham and scouse accents and cant undertsand scottish people!

 

[Tazio]

Not sure of the slangs we have down here, sure there are some though!

Bristolians sound cornish. I dont like birmigham and scouse accents and cant undertsand scottish people!

Away an bile yer heid ya radge!

 

[jamabikes]

moving from south essex to north essex the difference is amazing. south = cockney wannabes. north = cockney wannabes mixed with wurzel gummage!

 

[not_fat_matt]

Brummie accent. Sorry, no offence meant, but its just horrid.

Couldnt agree more (equally - no offence meant to anyone) as annoyingly, i often get mistaken for one when im out of the area :evil:

Black Country born and bred, live 12 miles from the Birmingham border and i can pick out a brummy accent instantly, for me the difference is like night and day.