Dialect or Lazyness

[Creemteez]

Having been born and brought up in London within sight and sound of West Ham Football ground, I of course have the cut glass accent one would expect from that area.....
Actually, when I was at school, I was regularly accused of being "posh" because I pronounced the "T's" on the end of words, but since I've been older, if I had a pound for everyone who after a few minutes of speaking to me, gives me a curious look and enquires as to whether it's an Australia or South Africa that I'm from.....
I put it down to never having had my tonsils out....

[RedThorn]

Ohh I worked in Forest Gate for 5 yrs CT...

Just down the road from the spotted dog....

[Florence Fennel]

This one's for our Flo to pull to bits.

Harry Enfield - Yorkshire Airlines Comedy - YouTube

If it's artside Yorkshire it's not wuth visitin'. Rest of it? Not even going there

[Aberdeenplotter]

fit like min? How are you doing

[CaroltheCarrot]

Dain braw

[Bigmallly]

fit like min? How are you doing

That's not a dialect AP, it's a whole new language..........

[Florence Fennel]

fit like min? How are you doing

Fair to middlin, I think or flattered

[Snadger]

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'.

Boiled ham is 'pink lint'................

[Snadger]

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

barth = baff and barf = chuck up

Boff or barf means to fart.......................

[Headfry]

VVG .....know what you mean
Mr HF from that 'area' he still has a hint of accent, made stronger after a family visit northwards

ps another thing I find Yorkshire peps do is shorten words...
Strawberries = Strawbs
Raspberries = Rasps
Blackbirds = Blackies
Coronation Street = Coro
Lilly of the Vally = Lillie's (this confuses me every time - Lilies flowering in April?)

and the list goes on.......I love it though, keeps me on my toes!

[Ananke]

I love all the different accents and dialects we have. When my boys were growing up I didn't use any slang words but noo am a right Weegie.

We were in Orkney a few years ago and I was talking to a man for about 10 minutes thinking he was Welsh but it was an Orcadian accent, lovely to listen to.

[Bigmallly]

Boff or barf means to fart.......................

You've just got to love the Geordie accent.............

[Feral007]

I need to be a bit careful here, I'm one of those people who pick up accents and start sounding like the person I'm talking to..............I could sound very multi cultural after a few minutes here! Ali

[veggiechicken]

Hi Feral Ali. When I read your posts I can "hear" you, especially some of the words like Ute and roos and whinge. Reminds me of some happy days spent down under many moons ago!

[VirginVegGrower]

If it's artside Yorkshire it's not wuth visitin'. Rest of it? Not even going there

Black ovvutt wife's mother's is Yorkshire for dark clouds bringing rain. Still makes me smile because where exactly is the wife's mothers? Why does she get all the rain? Can anyone from God's Own answer that please?