Accents and local slang

Hallideus · Post by **Hallideus** » 12 Jul 2016, 16:02

Being Northern I harbour plenty of local slang in my day to day vocabulary but I was discouraged from a young age to refrain from it and 'speak proper' since for a long time it was frowned upon by the upper eschalons of society to speak with an accent and use slang.
Now, I do mostly only revert to a thicker accent with a couple drinks and the geordie accent has many colourful words!

So how about you? What's your accent, what about slang words?

Aeri · Post by **Aeri** » 12 Jul 2016, 21:06

When I'm upset I'll get a New York accent but usually people remark their surprise on how much of an accent I DONT have considering being born and raised in New York

Hallideus · Post by **Hallideus** » 12 Jul 2016, 22:28

I often get mistaken for where I'm from as my accent is a bit weird for round here, to many others they say I do sound and speak definitively like someone from the Newcastle area.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor ... e-11601646 also found this!

lambda-sky · Post by **lambda-sky** » 12 Jul 2016, 22:31

Hallideus · Post by **Hallideus** » 12 Jul 2016, 22:40

Yeeep. The video demonstrates how thick and fast a geordie accent can get, I could understand nearly every word myself and probably let a few slip now and again myself I'd say.
Not actually being from Newcastle in itself it varies as to how accents sound round here BUT THANKFULLY, no mackem influence in mine :'D

Aeri · Post by **Aeri** » 13 Jul 2016, 00:46

So many slang words!

Hallideus · Post by **Hallideus** » 13 Jul 2016, 00:54

[video=youtube;E4ZELQx_k6Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4ZELQx_k6Y[/video] as geordie as geordie gets is this classic series, Auf Wiedersein Pet.

Bear · Post by **Bear** » 13 Jul 2016, 18:42

For some strange reason there is a documentary on the ol' stoke accent.
[video=youtube;06nbSiv1ZN0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06nbSiv1ZN0[/video]

lambda-sky · Post by **lambda-sky** » 13 Jul 2016, 19:47

HerMajestyTheQueenOfFunk · Post by **HerMajestyTheQueenOfFunk** » 13 Jul 2016, 23:17

Well... Reverting to your accent after a few drinks is better than sounding like you have a speech impediment... Damn French.
Else it's just regular Canada, eh.

Try a butchered up Irish accent, next. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8rIbitJAbQ

Buta · Post by **Buta** » 16 Jul 2016, 10:43

This discussion has reminded me of an article I saw not that long ago about why some Londoners say "Three" and some say "Free"... as well as some other words that tend to have more than one way of saying it: Business Insider: An increasing number of British people don't pronounce the word 'three' properly — these maps explain why.

Now, I was born in London's Dagenham area, and I definitely say "three" - but someone I work with who was born in the same hospital very much says "free", so this was quite interesting!
I say scone like how it would rhyme with bone.
I say splinter for a small piece of wood under the skin.
I say arm like "aahm".
I say butter "butt-ter" which something they aren't very clear about in the article.
I think I say last "larrst".
I say new "nyoo", not "noo"
For tongue, I'm one of the "ng" speakers.
I tend to say "himself" rather than "hisself" - that just looks so wrong to me lol.
I say Hers - never heard of Hern, but apparently it's extinct now anyways.
I call it Autumn, not Fall.

How about you lot? ^_^

Hallideus · Post by **Hallideus** » 17 Jul 2016, 19:03

Rather than type out some of the ways my own accent differentiates from the regular norm you'd hear from geordies I'll just record something once I find something to say.

HerMajestyTheQueenOfFunk · Post by **HerMajestyTheQueenOfFunk** » 18 Jul 2016, 04:18

Hallideus wrote:Rather than type out some of the ways my own accent differentiates from the regular norm you'd hear from geordies I'll just record something once I find something to say.

There is a thread with a list of things. I think it was called Accent Tag?

Hallideus · Post by **Hallideus** » 18 Jul 2016, 12:30

There is but that's really limited to the list and leaves out some of the funnier ones, I've been questioned over the way I say "Butter" and so on. :'D

Cmartins · Post by **Cmartins** » 18 Jul 2016, 19:45

Being an immigrant and still being learning proper english i still have a crazy accent...

However, as I learn American English, many people ask me if I lived in the United States previously....
But I continue to learn and believe it or not, to be here in the forum and talk with all of you helps me a lot!