Dialect or Lazyness

[bearded bloke]

Down here we don't have fur coats or lace curtains either!

There was me thinking the Welsh were famous for lace making

[bearded bloke]

ooh youse guz fur a 'barth' az well then .........yersee barf means summat difrent 'ere

barth = baff and barf = chuck up

Yep that will be the one Bin's,the odd thing was it took over 50 years for me to realise the "proper"pronunciation was bath,

My mates from the Black Country also call it a baff

[veggiechicken]

Gong back to the first post about laziness in speech, I've been browsing through the Wenglish site TalkTidy: Home Page
Here's something we say
Boil Tam Wenglish for 'boiled ham'.

[Alison]

We always said that people that made a larther in the barth where a bit on the posh side as we just lathered in the bath, kept that a nice and short

[Bigmallly]

Gong back to the first post about laziness in speech, I've been browsing through the Wenglish site TalkTidy: Home Page
Here's something we say
Boil Tam Wenglish for 'boiled ham'.

See I'd say Boil Dam...............

[taff]

Gong back to the first post about laziness in speech, I've been browsing through the Wenglish site TalkTidy: Home Page
Here's something we say
Boil Tam Wenglish for 'boiled ham'.

I just said that out loud and it came out as boil damn.
Oh no!!! I've become english!!!!

[binley100]

Quick quick .........run back to Wales for a refresher course

[binley100]

OH lived for his formative years in liverpool ....but he only talks scouse when he's had a drink

[Potstubsdustbins]

Voice proceedure taught in the military for radio communications can have a weird effect. I was talking to a client on the phone the other day, damn awful line. After I had finnished my grand daughter came out with "Grand dad don't you speak posh when your on the phone." It was only then I realised I often slip back into VP when I have a bad phone connection.

Colin

[Vince G]

I love accents and dialect, it's what gives you identity in the UK I think. I'm Suffolk born and bred. People from round here tell me I've lost the accent a bit, probably a consequence of going to a posh school and working in London, but people down there still take the mick and say I sound like a farmer!!

Suffolk (and Norfolk for that matter) is a really hard one to impersonate, and people end up sounding like they're from somewhere in the West Country, with that twangy ooo-aarrr R, which we don't do in East Anglia at all. In fact only people from the south-west of England do that and bits of Lancs like Blackburn and Oldham.

We have a lot of dialectal things which people from out of the area think is grammatical ignorance, but it's not, it's just the different words we use, and the way we say them. It's only stupidity if that's how you write it down. For instance: "I showed him and he wrote it down" would often be spoken "I shew him and he writ it down".

Here's a snippit of an old dear who's quite well known round these parts. She speak proper Suffolk oi tull yer!

charliehaylock.com and click on Suffolk voices.

One last thing: a phrase that's very common round here, and I just wondered if anyone else had heard of it. I've trawled the net and if you do the same, you'll probably come across me asking questions on websites. "On the drag", meaning running late. I first became aware that this phrase was little known outside the area when I was heading off to London for a meeting with my then boss. The train ended up running half an hour late, so I phoned him up on the mobile and said I was a little on the drag.

When I eventually arrived he said he'd never heard that expression before and had been concerned that I was going to turn up in a dress !!

Language is wonderful!

[di]

I'm always on the drag!

d'reckon is another I oft use and 'foreigners' don't hav the first clue.

I grew up nextdoor to Peggy Cole...loved her advert on the radio for Boy roight in Haaaadley

[Vince G]

Well oid love ter stay n hev a roit ol Ipsidge chat Doi, but thas gettin late an oi gotta goo a bed on accounter I hetter be a work at huppus tate! Noit noit, n doont let em bed bugs boit!

The others won't have a clue will they.........

[Feral007]

Strangely there's only a few words there that I didn't get.
When I worked in the UK we had an Irish nurse (southeast Ireland) and she used to Bat the babies. (Barth, Bath, Baff) and we used to always ask her questions that the answer would be 'Yes, I batt'd the baby (you fecking idjits, under her breath)" It was great fun!
Being an aussie of course, I don't have an accent like yew guise. Javagoo'wee'nd?
Noice, Rilly noice, thanks.
Ali

[Vince G]

Every time I go on holiday to Scotland I get asked if I'm an Aussie at least once - there are definitely some similar long open vowel sounds to the Aussie accent....words like half, past, etc....and yet when we went to Oz a couple of years back we stood out like sore Pommie thumbs!

I've got a mate who moved to Melbourne about 10 years ago. He's back in a couple of weeks to visit, and every time I see him, his accent gets more and more confused. He still retains vestiges of the East Anglian farmer, but with some real Aussie twangs and he was developing a real AQI last time we saw him, although that was in his own back yard in Oz, to be fair.

I love accents though. In the UK they're being more and more diluted thanks in my opinion to ease of travel over the last 100 years or so, and more recently to kids wanting to sound like some sort of rapper rather than a native of their town. You know wot I iz sayin, innit?

It's a shame and if only they realised how daft they sound...

Thankfully, a bit seems to be being done to look after the Welsh and Gaelic languages, so we hopefully won't lose these lovely languages.

[RedThorn]

Me I don't have an accent, it's the rest of you that does!

Seriously though, mines so mixed and blended it's scary

Mum's a Yorkshire lass, Dad has a Dutch accent, I grew up in Africa and spent 10+yrs in Hertfordshire and you wonder why I talk funny? You pick up colloquial things from each place you live and they get blended together.

My lil niece was always a git to get in the bath, so her mum would try and say lets go for a bath(pronounced baa-th) and then Gran would say same but pronounced in a thick Yorkshire accent of bath until one day she said "I'm not going for a baa-th or a bath either