uk regional dialect

Woodlice in Scotland are slaters, cows are coos or ky, sparrows are speugs though most animals are beasties. My favourite dialect expressions are from Shetland and it is English dialect not a foreign language which include incomers being ferryloupers, a skua (kind of seabird) is a bonksy and to deter you from dropping rubbish they say Dunna Chuck Bruck :lol:
 
EarlofBarnet":1vjzxn7k said:
Round my way the accent changes almost between towns. Very slight, but between me and the town 10 miles away there is a difference. Tis strange!
I think thats the same everywhere but it's harder to pick them out if you're not a local.
I used to share a house with a guy from Scunthorpe a girl from Bolton a guy from Slough and me from Newcastle upon Tyne a french girl who moved in swore we all sounded the same :?
My accent is toned down following a stint in London where if I didn't tone it down I had to repeat myself over and over.
 
highlandsflyer":1vuvrrtk said:
One of the more interesting clans, rich sods. Donnachaidh is mine, old but poor! :)

A damn fine clan. With a great clan chief who lived at the top of a hill and demanded people came to him.
 
Round here they have the weardest local dialect ever. Sounds really yocal to my ears. Only extends over an area of about 5 miles but definately unique.
 
I don't suppose that I should really be posting on this thread as the Isle of Man's not part of the UK. Recorded in our village hall.....

Captain of the parish of Ballaugh, Edgar Cowin, reciting a short excerpt from "Betsy Lee" by T E Brown.

Clicky here

T E Brown is much the same to us (few) Manx as Burns is to the Scots - ie pretty much our national poet.
When I was at primary school I remember learning this extract from "Betsy Lee" - my father knew far more of the poem than I ever did and would frequently recite large chunks of it......I used to love it, as his accent was just music to my ears.


"Now the beauty of the thing when childher plays is
The terrible wonderful length the days is.
Up you jumps, and out in the sun,
And you fancy the day will never be done ;
And you're chasin' the bumbees huminin' so cross
In the hot sweet air among the goss,
Or gath'rin' blue-bells, or lookin' for eggs,
Or peltin' the ducks with their yella legs,
Or a climbin' and nearly breakin' your skulls,
Or a shoutin' for divilment after the gulls,
Or a thinkin' of nothin', but down at the tide
Singin' out for the happy you feel inside.
That's the way with the kids, you know,
And the years do come and the years do go,
And when you look back it's all like a puff,
Happy and over and short enough."

Fast forward to 1994, when my Dad was 93 and dying in hospital - during his last few hours he was slipping in and out of conciousness and a nurse told me that he was obviously just talking nonsense now as "he keeps rambling on about ducks with yellow legs or something"?

I like to think that Dad was just back in his childhood, when he first learnt "Betsy Lee"........
 
Isle of Man is not part of the UK but it is part of Great Britain at least the British Isles, its all a bit grey. To further confuse, Northern Ireland is part of the UK but not part of Great Britain :roll: :lol:

Further you speak English and a dialect is used on the Isle of Man so you should be posting on this thread. Manx lineage doesn't get you off the hook :wink:
 
velomaniac":1e3ikqga said:
Isle of Man is not part of the UK but it is part of Great Britain at least the British Isles, its all a bit grey. :roll: :lol:

It's not "a bit grey" - the Isle of Man is part of the British Isles, but not part of Great Britain or the UK - like the Channel Islands.

velomaniac":1e3ikqga said:
Further you speak English and a dialect is used on the Isle of Man so you should be posting on this thread. Manx lineage doesn't get you off the hook :wink:

Well, to be pedantic, the thread title was "UK regional accents" and my point is that as I don't actually live in the UK I can't, strictly speaking, have a UK regional accent, yessir :wink:
 
Hardcore Derbyshire goin on here, I've only really noticed how strong it is in the last few years as well. Makes me laugh how my 3yr old spends his life now starting nearly every sentence with eh up or bloomin eck!
An even more local thing is the lack of the word mate, round here your either called John or Dave!
 
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