Accents

[SocketRocket]

I'd better give you some tips on how to understand the Brum dialect just in case you have the misfortune to be in Birmingham.

The toyme is foive and twenty to fowa.
The time is twenty five minutes to four.

Oyd loyke an oyscreme.
I'd like an ice cream.

Yam gooin to where?
Where are you going to?

Also:
'Thems' means they.
Yow means you.
Arhh means yes.

Far simpler than finding you way around the adjacent Black Country, because in Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Dudley and Walsall you will need a phrase book.

Bosting

 

[chico]

My wife is from N. I. And has two different accents. Her usual is quite soft but her angry is full on Ian Paisley, scary.

 

[Deleted member 25172]

As an outsider, and probably with an accent that may be a delicate taste to a lot of people, there are quite a few English accents I’m not particularly fond of.

The worst of them all are the Love Island (yes, I consider it a millennial “I-wanna-grow-up-to-become-an-influencer) along with the Essex accent, although they in a lot of cases intertwine. Oh, the gangsta blud/innit is up there too. Makes people sound thick as ?

 

[stefanovic]

Bosting

BOSTIN if you don't mind.
You need to be a better REUTER.

 

[Rooter]

Rural Berkshire (Bark shire) here, my kids sound like a cross between farmers and stupid American YouTubers.

I would say my accent is usually very much home counties, bordering on west London, but when I used to drink, the Wythenshawe from my mum came out! Always handy when you don't want to be called out as a southern shandy when in the north!

I love listening accents, the only one that grates me is a high-pitched female Belfast accent... ooooofff it could turn milk!!

 

[Bazz]

Few mentions for Brummie, which is completely different to the black country accent, massively.

 

[Orikoru]

Rural Berkshire (Bark shire) here, my kids sound like a cross between farmers and stupid American YouTubers.

I would say my accent is usually very much home counties, bordering on west London, but when I used to drink, the Wythenshawe from my mum came out! Always handy when you don't want to be called out as a southern shandy when in the north!

I love listening accents, the only one that grates me is a high-pitched female Belfast accent... ooooofff it could turn milk!!

You didn't enjoy watching Derry Girls then I take it.

 

[SocketRocket]

BOSTIN if you don't mind.
You need to be a better REUTER.

My Grandad who was born in Bilston said 'Bosting' with a very pronounced 'G'. Just like he called me 'Broying' instead of Brian.

 

[Imurg]

The old Bucks accent is very rarely heard these days..
When we were nippers, the old couple next door were so broad in it we could barely understand them.
Hard to pinpoint a description but, to give you an idea, the word Cows was pronounced Kays..it was a weird thing to listen to.
One word has become a "family" word..more of a phrase really.
At down't ackle means that doesn't fit or it's out of place/ doesn't go together...

 

[williamalex1]

Have a listen to Parliamo Glasgow , by Stanley Baxter.

 

[Ethan]

You didn't enjoy watching Derry Girls then I take it.

The Derry accent is very different from the Belfast accent.

 

[Orikoru]

The Derry accent is very different from the Belfast accent.

Maybe to you.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Yoose, tends to set my teeth on edge.

When working two yrs in Cannock i got attuned to the local ‘yaa-w’ accent - it took me a good many more years living in Bristol to attune to the locals as in their ‘krek waiter speak brizzle’

 

[SocketRocket]

When working two yrs in Cannock i got attuned to the local ‘yaa-w’ accent - it took me a good many more years living in Bristol to attune to the locals as in their ‘krek waiter speak brizzle’

It's 'Bristle' not 'Brizzle' ?

 

[Voyager EMH]

Attempting to write phonetically what you perceive to be an accent gives away what accent you have or what you perceive to be a "neutral" accent, which is still an accent.
If I were to write a phrase phonetically to describe the Leicester town accent, I would have to do it in two completely different ways in order for a north-easterner or someone from Central Southern England to get my gist.
For instance, if I travel 50 miles south of here, the phrase, "Half a glass of draught Bass" becomes "Harf a glarss of drarft Bess" to my ear.
My attempt at phonetics should make no sense to some and perfect sense to others.
Such a discussion is best done audibly, I believe.
I love accents and the differing vowel sounds. Also, it really confuses Americans, which I find highly amusing sometimes.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

It's 'Bristle' not 'Brizzle' ?

Indeed it is - 'cept they don't pronounce the 't' - IIRC.

 

[SocketRocket]

Indeed it is - 'cept they don't pronounce the 't' - IIRC.

I do and I'm wun uv um.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I do and I'm wun uv um.

I stan kretid ?

 

[stefanovic]

I like the Bristolian accent.
It's rhotic (never heard of that word either until just now).
"Post-vocalic r in words like car and card is still pronounced, having been lost from many other dialects of English. "

They also put an l on the end of words ending in a.
As in prima donna being pronounced primal donnal.

 

[SocketRocket]

I like the Bristolian accent.
It's rhotic (never heard of that word either until just now).
"Post-vocalic r in words like car and card is still pronounced, having been lost from many other dialects of English. "

They also put an l on the end of words ending in a.
As in prima donna being pronounced primal donnal.

Indial is a malerial areal.

Lancs is also Rhotic as is much of Wessex.