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Jenny
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The Yorkshire accent
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http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/31/right-sweet-accent-int-it-interview-with-a-3-year-old-from-yorkshire/
I encourage everyone to watch this video, it is amazing! She is definitely a South Yorkshire lass!
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Re: The Yorkshire accent
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October 18, 2013, 11:14:15 pm
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Sounds like a Barnsley lass!!
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ravenrover
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When I moved down to Nottingham with my job both my Secretary and my Receptionist couldn't understand me and I don't consider that I have a strong accent
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Bentley Bullet
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October 19, 2013, 11:37:35 am
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I was in a pub darn sarf once and when I tried to order a round of drinks the barman didn't understand me. I thought summatsupeer, is he deaf or what? I turned to my mate and said "smarrerweeim, dunt ee understand english?" My mate said "Gerartnit, he's southern, he can't talk proper."
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BillyStubbsTears
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October 19, 2013, 11:46:33 am
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I once heard in an Asda in Sheffield, one of the natives calling to his wife to enquire as to what was capturing her interest.
"Nat. Na'den, wi'den, wha di duin darn deoh den?"
When you write it down, it looks like Indonesian.
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BillyStubbsTears
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October 19, 2013, 11:57:08 am
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Mind, Dee-Dah int really a Yorkshire accent. Linguistically and etymologically, Sheffield accent and dialect is more North Midlands than North Country. As you move out from Sheffield towards Donny, I reckon the boundary where the true Yorkshire accent starts is round Swinton/Mexborough. They have a hard edge to the accent that we have in Doncaster. Hard "a"'s for example, as in "fatha". Pronouncing "y", "ey" or "ay" as "i", as in "Mondi" for the first day of the week.
Just going 1 mile from Swinton to Rawmarsh, the accent changes dramatically, into the softer North Midlands style, where vowels kind of collapse in the mouth rather than being spat out like we do. So kids in Rawmarsh buy "Mors Bors" as snacks. And by the time you get to Sheffield, the first day of the week is Mondeh.
Or that example in the previous post. In the mining town arc around Sheffield, the word "there" is uniformly pronounced "thee-ar". It's hard and sharp. In Sheffield, it's "dee-oh". Each syllable is softened.
Fascinating stuff.
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BigColSutherland
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October 19, 2013, 02:27:08 pm
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Guy sat near me on GNER once asked the ticket fella if there was a buffet car, but had obviously never heard of France as he kept pronouncing it buff'ert.
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Dagenham Rover
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My Missis is a cockney been living back up here 10 years an people still can't understand her, mind you neither can I
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roversdude
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At one time had to deal with some Iranians at work - one cheeky git asked me if I could speak English as he couldn't understand me, followed up by adding that they learn English through BBC
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BillyStubbsTears
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October 20, 2013, 08:51:16 pm
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Was once in a motorway service station in Italy. Chatting in English with a couple of Italians. A Welsh trucker walked past and joined in the chat for a couple of minutes, in a deep Valleys accent. When he moved on, one of the Italians looked at me bewildered and said, "Wadda da fok did he just say?"
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German Rover
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I'm living it Wiltshire with a girl from accrington, and it's terrible down here for people not understanding me and especially our lass.
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