Accents and local slang

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 07 May 2020, 17:08

I really like listening to different accents, although I sometimes have a problem understanding them.

Some accents can be really innovative. On the other hand, some accents sound like an older version of English.

I suppose I have the most experience with Brummie. The most visible thing is that it preserved the pronunciation of u in words like "bus", which sounds more like u in "foot". It's an older pronunciation from the older version English.

On the other hand it innovated with t, which now is just stopping the sound (glottal stop). So the word "butter" is very different from RP, because it has two of those things at once, so it sounds like "boo<STOP>er" (short oo, it's one vowel of course, not o + o) (er is one vowel of course, not e + r).

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 11 May 2020, 22:08

It's a funny video. The guys try to understand what some words mean in Old English. You can try yourself! Let's see how many you get.

[video=youtube;sEaRBAT0TLs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEaRBAT0TLs[/video]

GraceMellody · Post by **GraceMellody** » 12 May 2020, 11:59

Have you heard Lancashire slang ahaha

PUT TH' WOOD IN TH' HOLE

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 12 May 2020, 19:03

Oh, I've checked some info about the Lancashire accent.

It seems an important feature (in southern Lancashire only) is that it uses g in words like e.g. "bang", "singer" or "wrong". RP (and nothern Lancashire) uses a single ng sound, but southern Lancashire uses separate ng sound + g sound.

I wonder if it would be possible for a Lancashire speaker to divide the word "singer" into syllables like this: sing-ger.

Another cool thing is that it uses long o (instead of eu) in words like "goal", "shown", "toe".

GraceMellody · Post by **GraceMellody** » 12 May 2020, 21:55

unoduetre wrote: ↑
12 May 2020, 19:03
Oh, I've checked some info about the Lancashire accent.

It seems an important feature (in southern Lancashire only) is that it uses g in words like e.g. "bang", "singer" or "wrong". RP (and nothern Lancashire) uses a single ng sound, but southern Lancashire uses separate ng sound + g sound.

I wonder if it would be possible for a Lancashire speaker to divide the word "singer" into syllables like this: sing-ger.

Another cool thing is that it uses long o (instead of eu) in words like "goal", "shown", "toe".

It is a peculiar one, and even as a born and bred lanc it still confuses me sometimes

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 13 May 2020, 01:58

@GraceMellody

Can you speak "pure" Lancashire (north? south?), or it's more of a mix? (I know you can also speak "without accent" (actually something like RP accent

) if you want, but that's not what I'm asking.)

GraceMellody · Post by **GraceMellody** » 13 May 2020, 08:45

unoduetre wrote: ↑
13 May 2020, 01:58
@GraceMellody

Can you speak "pure" Lancashire (north? south?), or it's more of a mix? (I know you can also speak "without accent" (actually something like RP accent ) if you want, but that's not what I'm asking.)

more southern, but my mother raised me to speak a little more “proper” which is why I don’t necessarily sound Lancashire

DragonOfDojima · Post by **DragonOfDojima** » 13 May 2020, 09:45

I swear too much when i get into a good conversation

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 24 May 2020, 05:59

I think this video might be interesting for the readers of this thread.

Jas · Post by **Jas** » 24 May 2020, 12:46

Papa Jupiter wrote: ↑
19 Jul 2016, 23:02
General American.

Oh, come now. You can be more specific than that. I'd be surprised if you didn't have a bit of a Midwestern accent. I'm a military brat and I traveled around the U.S. a lot during my formative years.

I'm sure my accent could be called "General American," as it had all the rough edges knocked off in all of the different places I lived, and it certainly isn't Midwestern.

Some people consider Midwestern the neutral American accent, but it's not. It's just generally a pleasing one.

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 24 May 2020, 13:48

Also an interesting video for people speaking an American accent.

Post by **Elgood81** » 24 May 2020, 16:55

watch this vid at 27:00 in and you'll get an example of a norfolk accent

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 24 May 2020, 17:00

Oh, it's cool. I suppose it's exaggerated for the purpose of the film, right?

Post by **Elgood81** » 25 May 2020, 15:52

unoduetre wrote: ↑
24 May 2020, 17:00
Oh, it's cool. I suppose it's exaggerated for the purpose of the film, right?

maybe just a little cos i've never heard anyone say "hold you hard" to mean stay there, but the rest of it i've heard and used. The closer you get to norwich the thicker the norfolk accent gets.

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 25 May 2020, 16:17

Oh, that's cool!

I've checked some info and it seems one cool characteristic of the Norfolk dialect is that what is pronounced "iu" in RP turns into long "uu" (there is no "i"-like sound in the beginning). One can hear it when one of the actors pronounces the name Stuart.