Regional accents in the UK.....................

[Tawi2]

I am watching "Geordie finishing school" I had almost forgotten how thick/strong the newcastle accent is,worse is the memory I must have sounded like that as a kid I remember maybe 20+ years ago chatting to a pinay who lived in sunderland,her name was angie and her husbands business was importing Romblon marble for kitchen work-tops and coffee-tables,she was actually starting to get a local accent,its odd to hear a pinay say "Why aye man" I just wondered how easy do pinays find regional accents(I met a nurse in Pinas who had worked in liverpool and hated the local dialect)in the UK and do they start to pick-up the occassional phrase and word?In this area the accent is fairly cultured,no regional phrases to speak of so I havent noticed what the Pinays call "Slang" here. Anyones woman getting a bit of a local-twang?

[rusty]

We moved to Newcastle just over a year ago and I know that my wife sometimes has difficulties understanding some people from here, I'm originally from Kent and even I cant understand everyone.

Our son is turning 3 soon and will be starting pre-school so it will be interesting to see if he picks up the accent.

[grahamw48]

My step-kids came to Yorkshire when aged 7 and 9 years, and soon developed a healthy Yorkshire accent.

My step-daughter is now starting to sound distinctly posh though...Uni' I suppose, and different friends.

My own boy is more Yorkshire than ever I was.

[Arthur Little]

My daughter, on the other hand, will be 42 in less than a couple of weeks, and - although born in Perth - moved up to Aberdeenshire in 1991 ... following four years at Glasgow University & Jordanhill College. After two decades, she's picked-up the North East of Scotland accent far more than I ever did the Perth dialect. And she is a Speech & Language Therapist by profession!

[Alona]

anyway grahamw48....i really like york...one of my favourite place in britain hehehe

My step-kids came to Yorkshire when aged 7 and 9 years, and soon developed a healthy Yorkshire accent.

My step-daughter is now starting to sound distinctly posh though...Uni' I suppose, and different friends.

My own boy is more Yorkshire than ever I was.

[Steve.r]

When I worked in Saudi, the Americans on the contract thought I sounded like a pirate. If not a pirate, they thought I was an aussi

[imagine]

anyway grahamw48....i really like york...one of my favourite place in britain hehehe

york is where my ancestry traces back to , later on to harrogate , and going by the look of my nose i think my ancesters were romans

[grahamw48]

anyway grahamw48....i really like york...one of my favourite place in britain hehehe

It is a nice town Alona, and I suppose I am lucky to live here.

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It is a nice town Alona, and I suppose I am lucky to live here.

and theres me thinking it was a city

[Alona]

yeah you are very lucky to live there...i been there last month and last year and we headed to scarborough.

It is a nice town Alona, and I suppose I am lucky to live here.

[Arthur Little]

Hmm ... I left Glasgow - where I was born - at the tender age of eight. Yet, people keep telling me I haven't lost the "twang" even now - 58 years later!

[imagine]

i first came to aberdeenshire about 35 years ago, peterhead the buchan accent, i couldnt understand a word that was said, was then just like hearing a foreign language

[Arthur Little]

i first came to aberdeenshire about 35 years ago, peterhead the buchan accent, i couldnt understand a word that was said, was then just like hearing a foreign language

Aye ... yer richt ther', Stewart ... ... a'hye!

[imagine]

it was the fishermen and farmers that had what seems their own dialect,
everyone else i had no problem understanding,

[Arthur Little]

it was the fishermen and farmers that had what seems their own dialect,
everyone else i had no problem understanding,

Aye ... weel, ah dinna' ken muckle aboot the fishermen ... bit by Goad thur fairmers ... jings!

[imagine]

Aye ... weel, ah dinna' ken muckle aboot the fishermen ... bit by Goad thur fairmers ... jings!

spot on

[scott&ligaya]

like it Stewart.... I have cousins along the Morayshire coast right from Elgin, Buckie, Cullen, Portsoy, Fraserburgh, Peterhead and Ellon, my honeys 1st meeting with a cousin in Buckie we just sort of turned up and she had been cleaning and had just finished fetching some toys from under a bed.. her opening line was fit like kwine to my mahal and aw del michty ma ganzi`s ah ooo ..... roughly translated to how are you and oh dear my jesrsey is covered in fluff..... Ligaya was completely confused and just smiled hehehehehehehe and yes Fraserburgh or the broch had an alien language all of its own LOL

[mikey73]

like it Stewart.... I have cousins along the Morayshire coast right from Elgin, Buckie, Cullen, Portsoy, Fraserburgh, Peterhead and Ellon, my honeys 1st meeting with a cousin in Buckie we just sort of turned up and she had been cleaning and had just finished fetching some toys from under a bed.. her opening line was fit like kwine to my mahal and aw del michty ma ganzi`s ah ooo ..... roughly translated to how are you and oh dear my jesrsey is covered in fluff..... Ligaya was completely confused and just smiled hehehehehehehe and yes Fraserburgh or the broch had an alien language all of its own LOL

was brought up in the 'broch' still go there every couple weeks. no-one believes that i am from aberdeenshire. i dont really have the broad doric accent. was brought up in both fishing and farming areas of the north east and have no problems understanding them, and when there i do seem to drift back into doric tongue.i have spoken to my polish staff in the doric tongue and they just look at me confused . i sent my mahal a book on the doric langage and she is trying to learn it. she mostly just uses AYE from time to time.

[Tawi2]

My cousin still has a croft just west of Thurso,its a totally alien language up there,imagine a pinay trying to decipher that I do remember hearing of a few pinays in either the orkneys or the hebrides,cant remember where now but at the time I did think god help them
I think the hardest/worst accents for them in england are either scouse which makes me cringe,or geordie,especially north shields

[Arthur Little]

or geordie,especially north shields

... don't I just know it - having cousins from South Shields!!

[imagine]

i learnt early on, not to nod my head pretending i understood

[Arthur Little]

i learnt early on, not to nod my head pretending i understood

Me bein' a bittie deef, it's affy frustratin' tryin' tae unnerstaun' ... wi' ma son-in-law bein' a teacher in 'the Broch'!

[scott&ligaya]

the Broch!! hehehehehee they even made the Trawlermen series with subtitles lol , if your son in law teaches English he has the toughest job in the country

[Arthur Little]

, if your son in law teaches English he has the toughest job in the country

... nah, Physics.

[scott&ligaya]

ahh a bit easier then as my namesake would say "Captain!!! ye canny change the laws of physics... the engines winny tayk it!!

[grahamw48]

City.

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Pop in for a coffee any time you're passing...

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City.

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Pop in for a coffee any time you're passing...

a very nice country cottage

[Tawi2]

a very nice country cottage

Looks like one of those shacks from a Tondo slum-clearance The windows arent even square.

[grahamw48]

Looks like one of those shacks from a Tondo slum-clearance The windows arent even square.

Oy ! I'll have you know I've got relations in the Tondo !

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[Tawi2]

Looks like that guys enjoying his Rugby