uk regional dialect

[isitafox]

As it happens it is actually Dave!!

 

[Bpool77]

QUOCUNQUE
JECERIS
STABIT

My motto in life.

 

[Andy R]

QUOCUNQUE
JECERIS
STABIT

My motto in life.

And a good one

 

[magicmistertea]

whats this bleddy thread goin on bout now then jon...
right on ..
cheers and gone...

Allthough being Cornish the majority of the older generation speak as above, The people my age (32)ish just speak in what i would call normal without any twang..
when i was a lad i used to work as a wine waiter in a hotel... all the guests thought i must have moved to Cornwall because i didnt talk like a farmer...
Due to the fact so many people have moved here over the last 20 years the accents in Cornwall are quite varied..
But obviously if you find a local farmer you will do well to understand him !!

 

[Tazio]

Dialects are being killed by television. The London accent is spreading like wildfire in the south of England and in Scotland the Glasgow accent or parts of it are spreading eastward all the time.

Prior to telly and soap operas people could go their whole life without hearing or meeting people outside their area.

 

[REKIBorter]

Watched a program once about lads joining up for the army during WW1. They said that they could not be understood if they walked to the next village.

 

[Dr S]

Watched a program once about lads joining up for the army during WW1. They said that they could not be understood if they walked to the next village.

That's still true in certain Northern parts. I grew up in a village called Darton. Two miles over the fields is another village called Royston. The accents there are much stronger with a much more pronounced 'OY' and 'OO' in the dialect.

Same goes up here in Northumberland. Morpeth is just five miles of open country from Newbiggin but the accent is wildly different. Example a dog is a dog in Morpeth, whereas it's a Derg over there. Then there are different words for certain things. In Morpeth a horse is a 'Gallower', up the road it's a 'Cuddy'. Other curious oddities are 'Keekers' for lights in Rothbury, 'Boolers' are tyres and a friend is known as a 'Wor Marra'.

 

[MiniNinjaRob]

I'm from the east midlands - Nottinghamshire. When I go down south people think I'm northern but round here in Yorkshire people think I've got a posh accent.

I'd never leave Yorkshire but if I had to choose another accent to have apart from Yorks then it'd be Northumbrian for sure. Just lovely.