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Death of the accent

Broad Cornish is v rare nowadays.

Seems to be a matter of choosing the same word placement as Yoda and sounding like a pirate who's drunk and can't pronounce the letter 'H'.

And yeah, it's a dying accent.
Can only think of about 3 people I've ever met who talk like it (all old folk). It's like a tribal thing designed to confuse outsiders.

Bristolian makes me laugh.
Proper Jeremy Kyle fodder they sound like.
 
^ Haha, it's true though.

I can admit that my accent just makes us all sound like tramps & alkies lol.

You ever met a London tramp? I mean like a proper tramp, one that's made a career out of it. Every single one of them just has a rougher version of my accent. Or every single one I've spoke to anyway. Last time I was in London, dude shouting for a quid & I turned round "Fuck sake man, you fae Glasgow?" "Aye wee man, chance ae a poun?". I dunno why, I think when the Glasgow tramps were introduced to London they must have ran the London tramps out of their natural habit. Like the grey/red squirrels.
 
Love the Durham accent! got a cheerful mate with a really thick one and ya cant understand half of what hes saying at first, but he's the funniest cunt i've ever met, all them iv met from durham seem to be really cheerful actually! Infeciously so, with infectious laughter. I also love scottish n soft irish accents. Hate scouse. Love yorkshire
 
The accent in St. Helens is your stereotypical northern accent. We are about 12 miles from Liverpool city centre and the accents are like chalk and cheese, scousers call us woolybacks. we have have had a load of scousers move into the town and the trend among the teenagers seems to be to talk with a scousers twang in their voice, fuck knows why.

Out of interest, when we go to the chippy, we call chips and peas "a split", Dont ask me why. This causes confusion if we go to other towns cos some places call a split chips and beans, or chips and gravy. Anyone else heard of a split, and if so what do you get in your chippys.
 
Never heard of a split. On chippie talk though, in Edinburgh if you go to a chippy they ask if you want 'salt and SAUCE' not salt and vinegar and they mean brown sauce, really vinegary stuff where as everywhere else as far as I know it's just salt & vinegar. Confuses anyone whos not used to it and a lot of people say yeah thinking they're getting salt and tomato sauce only to be disappointed.

There's still accents around here, thick, rough, scummy sounding accents. I can use it like the best of them but I can also discard it pretty easily if I need to and often get told I don't sound Scottish or have much of an accent when I'm abroad.
 
thattoh said:
The accent in St. Helens is your stereotypical northern accent. We are about 12 miles from Liverpool city centre and the accents are like chalk and cheese, scousers call us woolybacks. we have have had a load of scousers move into the town and the trend among the teenagers seems to be to talk with a scousers twang in their voice, fuck knows why.

Out of interest, when we go to the chippy, we call chips and peas "a split", Dont ask me why. This causes confusion if we go to other towns cos some places call a split chips and beans, or chips and gravy. Anyone else heard of a split, and if so what do you get in your chippys.
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I've been to the B&Q in St Helens. Friendly people I thought!
 
TheSpade said:
Never heard of a split. On chippie talk though, in Edinburgh if you go to a chippy they ask if you want 'salt and SAUCE' not salt and vinegar and they mean brown sauce, really vinegary stuff where as everywhere else as far as I know it's just salt & vinegar. Confuses anyone whos not used to it and a lot of people say yeah thinking they're getting salt and tomato sauce only to be disappointed.

There's still accents around here, thick, rough, scummy sounding accents. I can use it like the best of them but I can also discard it pretty easily if I need to and often get told I don't sound Scottish or have much of an accent when I'm abroad.
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Spade. Would you put your accent on here if we get the recorder pleasssse <£
 
Thanks knockando, we are quite a friendly town. You can talk to any stranger and have a laugh and joke with them. Even people who seem up thier own arse you can normally knock down a few pegs in a minute or two. Not like some places down south where you only need to ask the time and people look at you like you've spoke Russian to them.
 
i live in a small village and different accents within the village, one estate speaks with a complete different accent to the rest of the village.
 
My family all live in Norwich so whenever I go to visit them they all sound like total country bumpkins to me.
I personally think its an awful accent but not as annoying as the white teenage kids who try to talk like they were born and bred in Jamaica.
 
TheSpade said:
Never heard of a split. On chippie talk though, in Edinburgh if you go to a chippy they ask if you want 'salt and SAUCE' not salt and vinegar and they mean brown sauce, really vinegary stuff where as everywhere else as far as I know it's just salt & vinegar. Confuses anyone whos not used to it and a lot of people say yeah thinking they're getting salt and tomato sauce only to be disappointed.

There's still accents around here, thick, rough, scummy sounding accents. I can use it like the best of them but I can also discard it pretty easily if I need to and often get told I don't sound Scottish or have much of an accent when I'm abroad.
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My accent isn't too bad normally tbh. I've worked in call centres with 90% English customers & managed to get by fine, but I do need to think about it a bit & deliberately slow it down, if I get pissed off it switches back quite quickly to the way I normally speak & they're fucking clueless as to what I'm saying.

If I want to frighten a foreign person I can lay it on thick though, saved me from a kicking a couple of times. Puts people on the back foot long enough for you to march off if, for example, 3 English guys shout at the wee long haired cunt in the hat strolling past only for him to turn round & shout "FUCK YOU TAWKIN TAE YA WANK? GET TAE FUCK!!". I'm not aggressive at all but, thanks to where I grew up, I can very easily pretend to be.

maxalfie said:
My family all live in Norwich so whenever I go to visit them they all sound like total country bumpkins to me.
I personally think its an awful accent but not as annoying as the white teenage kids who try to talk like they were born and bred in Jamaica.
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Hahaha. "Whayoosayinblud? Yoo got that food fam?". I'm quite good at that accent (probably due to listening to too much UKHH, Klashnekoff n shit "Oi raaascclart. Bumbaclart fassy 'ole!!!), couldn't stop talking like that when I was in London, or in a pure Danny Dyer-esque "Faaackkkin 'ell, you facckin MUG!"
 
parttime crackhead said:
Hahaha. "Whayoosayinblud? Yoo got that food fam?". I'm quite good at that accent (probably due to listening to too much UKHH, Klashnekoff n shit "Oi raaascclart. Bumbaclart fassy 'ole!!!), couldn't stop talking like that when I was in London, or in a pure Danny Dyer-esque "Faaackkkin 'ell, you facckin MUG!"
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Funny you say that, that's exactly how I taught myself to talk a mixture of innit blud and Danny Dyer-esque mockney. When It first moved to London I had a thick foreign accent but then managed to lose it throughout the years, it really doesn't help talking like this when you're trying to be presentable or doing job interviews.
 
Why the fuck do people want to sound like they are from Jamaica, that daft dappy is one of them clowns isn't he. There's nothing worse than hearing a white man trying to sound black.
 
I know someone that can put on that jamaican accent like it's his own. He's a tiny ginger guy with a solid Devonian accent normally like everyone else round here. It's a pretty odd show.
 
Nowt worse than a North Korean trying to sound Russian either ;)

I love the concepts of accent - For example: The range of American accents - You can sort of hear twangs of all English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Italian, Germanic and all other migrants' accents and it makes me wonder how they developed and evolved over time.
 
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