Dialects/accents

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  • nipon
    nipon Posts: 68
    How be on, casun see the cowws fur the hoss's any moor in somerset. :)
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    cee wrote:
    i live in edinburgh.....the city of no accents.

    but my accent is more northern than that....cross between 'deenshire and west of scotland...giving a good mix of lilt and lult
    When I lived in Edinburgh a good few years back I had an american ask me if that was "Edinburgh, England".
    After a while I realised he was pretty much right.

    You might also appreciate the line overheard on the bus from Dundee to Aberdeen, as a mither chided her child's manners with
    "dinna say 'eh', say 'fit'"
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Conversation in a Glaswegian cake shop.

    Costomer:- "Is that a macaroon or a meringue?"

    Shopkeeper:- "No, you're right, it's a macaroon". :lol:
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    wiffachip wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Round my way you would greet your friend and enquire after his health by saying "Areet marra, how's tha fettle?"

    You would indicate your intention to return home by saying "As gan yam"

    bit of pitmatic going on here, i'm guessing 'yam' is in a pit village in Durham - Bearpark ?

    and you have a sharp lowse on a friday ?

    Close but no cigar!

    West Cumbria. We have an atom mill rather than a coal mine.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • davelakers
    davelakers Posts: 762
    "t'oreet cha? Ows your peg?"

    Translated to

    "Hello my friend, how is your wife?"

    It must be a Preston thing, just like butter pies!!!
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    waapen blud. Innit doe blud. You gets me doe blud.

    You get the drift I hope my bluds?

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