Where have all the accents gone?

[steje73]

I know I've got an accent, I just don't know what it is. As it were. There's no chance of anyone not being able to tell me and Stephen Fry apart.

[Suzi]

He heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Graham]

Ya wha???

he he this must be causing all sorts of confusion over the pond loike

You'll be wantin' a kipper tie then Graham?

Noice pointa Marstons Pedigree ud be berrer, ta.

Gra-yum

[Suzi]

Ya wha???

he he this must be causing all sorts of confusion over the pond loike

You'll be wantin' a kipper tie then Graham?

[Graham]

Cuz Oi wuz born in Brum, loike, Oi ay gorran axcint at orl, me. Witchizza pity cuz Oi loike a noice axcint as lung as it int Belfast or, wairse, Cockney.

Ta-ra yo lot,

Gra-yum

[George Hutchinson]

Bla - if you want accents come and have a chat with me when I'm not speaking in an official capacity. Then, when you've got used to that, you can go hardcore and speak to Alan Sharp.

PHILIP

[steje73]

I'm in an odd place accent-wise. Too far North for Yorkshire, too far South for Geordie, so if any of yee canny bairns can place County Durham in the accent map afore it does me heid in (and so on) I'd appreciate that. We seem to have a mix but nothing distinctive.

[Suzi]

To be honest, Suzi, I don't know how it's spelt. Maybe Gareth could help here.

There we are then.........Come in cariad.......

Oh and of course us girlies all aspire to our Celia Johnson (as in Brief Encounter*)...there again there's Thora Hird's perfect 'Oh Fraid' to Freddy Frinton (blessim!)

* Talking of that wonderful film- I love the woman in the cafeteria on THE station who has the immortal 'Hai dewnt knaew to hwat yew refar' Heeeeeeeee heeeeeeeee

Gawd remind me never to attempt to write in 'the venacular'!! -It takes for ever and you sit 'ere talking out loud to yourself in bizarre accents and then attempt to spell them!!!

(Hew kin tell it's 'alf term caint ya' moi babes!)

[John Bennett]

In my youth, I remember TV announcers and newsreaders having what we could call 'BBC World Service' voices. I think of people like Robert Dougal, Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendal.

My mum used to moan about the regional accents appearing a few years back, but then she is incredibly reactionary(!).

But then we did have Michael Parkinson and Russell Harty in the old days.

[j.r-ahde]

Hello you all!

Interesting, very interesting...

Throughout the Finnish tv-history, there has also been talks about tv shaping off the edges of local accents and dialects here...

If anyone wants to know something about the Finnish language nuances; in the eastern province called Savo the listener comes responsible (if I have understood my Irish friend right, it's the same thing with the Western Irish! ), while people in the province of Häme are known for their very slooow way of speaking...

OK, back to the English accents: I wonder, where are the Americans here, talking about their accents.

There are some interesting things: foist of all, if I have understood the Marx brothers right, newyorkers speak the foist word like that. Then, if I remember correctly, I can be shooah, that Kennedy pronounced the third word with that kind of viga...

All the best
Jukka

[John Bennett]

Hi John-
There's lovely to year someone saying Coom cooch up by year (Is it cooch or cutch???)

To be honest, Suzi, I don't know how it's spelt. Maybe Gareth could help here.

[Suzi]

Hi John-
There's lovely to year someone saying Coom cooch up by year (Is it cooch or cutch???)

My 'Ampshire ramblings can sometimes slip in a cockney 'nai wot oi mean' especially when called upon to swear I wuz born dahn the road from Bow Bells- especially if there's a free pint in it

Mind you the old Pompey takes some beating- I miss it from mi' teachin' days-although I'm still in a school this lot seem to have lost the old 'Come dahn moi ace- got a new chavvy- it's well kushti' ..... sadly........... Mind you I still bump into 'em at the Tesco 'Old Boys Association' to the line of 'Wheeeeeeeeee Miss you used ta be moi old Art teacha'.... (I point out that Yes -I did have the priviledge of teaching them Art (!!!!!) - but- I never was- or will admit to- being old!!)

Suz x

[Sam Flynn]

Oh don't be so despondent, Gareth. Come by 'ere now in a minute and cutch up with your Ripper buddies.

Thanks, John... the Casebook is a place in which I invariably find succour. Several succours, on a good day

[John Bennett]

It's happened in the last 15-20 years in Wales, too - much to my chagrin. It's bad enough (from a personal perspective) that the Welsh language has declined, but to lose the way in which English is - was - spoken in these parts is doubly sad.

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Oh don't be so despondent, Gareth. Come by 'ere now in a minute and cutch up with your Ripper buddies. (My ex was Welsh, I've got the lingo!)

[John Bennett]

I did a Ripper tour for a school from Suffolk last week. Not an accent in sight.

But can I get rid of my own dodgy Hackney / Norf London accent? No!