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Thread #102328   Message #2075550
Posted By: Geoff the Duck
13-Jun-07 - 05:17 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: The word 'scut'
Subject: RE: Folklore: The word 'scut'
Stallion, dear chap, that is my point - I WOULD NOT EVER pronounce "our house" as "ower owse", it would be "are ouse" ( "ou" pronounced as in "out" ) - if anything.
If I saw "ower" written ad dialect I would read it as OVER not OUR and pronounce it with a long "O" sound at the start. If I used the spelling in Bradford's dialect it would be in a sentence such as " Ey up, are kid! Cum ower ere", but in real life I would write it (H)ey up, our kid! Come over here.
Quack!
GtD.