Accents and Dialect

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: GUEST,Dave Hunt
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 12:24 PM

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 12:07 PM

Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, Cambridgeshire.....many shires in England but not all regularly called by their full titles.....
Best wishes, Mike.
PS Cornwall is definitely not a shire.....nor I believe now is
Cumbria.
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Neither are Suffolk. Norfolk, Essex, Kent,Middlesex
Dave

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 12:08 PM

Queen Elizabeth I was going to make him Duke of Derbyshire, but the scribe who wrote out the parchment got it wrong, so they've stayed Dukes of Devonshire for over 400 years.

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 12:07 PM

Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, Cambridgeshire.....many shires in England but not all regularly called by their full titles.....
Best wishes, Mike.
PS Cornwall is definitely not a shire.....nor I believe now is Cumbria.

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: GUEST,Teri
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 11:00 AM

Please excuse a poor boy's ignorance, but is it Devon or Devonshire??

I know there was a randy old goat called himself the Duke of Devonshire but he was from Yorkshire or Derbyshire, hundreds of miles from Devon.

So, is Devon a place and Devonshire a dirty old man?

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 09:14 AM

Round our way 'Broad' (local) and 'Bang' (general) dialects were switched at the drop of a hat! If you were talking to someone you knew was local you 'talked broad'. If you addressed a stranger it was courtesy to speak 'Bang'.

Didn't the BBC do a regional version of Doctor Who?

"I am a dialect. Exterminate the buggers..."

:D

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 08:54 AM

My Glaswegian friend during my schooldays spoke with a 'BBC' English accent when she spoke to everybody except her parents. When she spoke to them it was in broad Glesga. She claimed (and I've no reason to doubt her) that she did it automatically, almost without realising it.

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 08:28 AM

Up to the time I started school I am told that I spoke 'very nicely' - Queen's English and all that.

Going to school in North London soon knocked that out of me - to my parents' dismay the accent was soon no different from those of the other kids in the area.

Since coming to the USA I have had many compliments on my accent - it seems that any British accent is seen as exotic over here.

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: GUEST,Squeaky at work
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 08:22 AM

Georgian - I had the same sort of schooling - my rural accent was literally beaten out of me. Singing in the church choir helped to dampen it down, enunciating properly for the (mostly deaf!) congregation. I still have moments though when it pops out, usually when I've been visiting relatives in Dorset or spoken to one of the South-West offices on the phone.

I'm pathetic at working out accents though... I have to have the subtitles on for any TV show produced north of Shrewsbury.

LTS

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 07:27 AM

I grew up in the Devonshire dialect until I went to one of those schools where "One is expected to converse in Queens English boy".
I quickly lost the use of dialect but even now I still have some of the Devonshire accent. I can still speak in the Devonshire dialect and used to read stories to groups of people in my native tongue, many years ago.
Thanks for the post s&r.....good one!
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 06:48 AM

Daft owd bugger, a ment Lincolnsheer.

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 06:47 AM

Them on uz what's from t'Backwoods o'Lincolnsheer dunt ev any trubble wi' it mai-aster. An' them on uz what's from t'border o' Licolnsheer an' Nottinumsheer dunt ev no trubble wi' t'way them daft lummoxes ower theer talks neether.

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: Sooz
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 06:23 AM

I came from Nottingham and it took me ages to get my ear tuned into Lincolnshire!

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: s&r
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 06:10 AM

Fair takes me back - I came from the East Midlands; Titch's accent is close to the sounds I remember locally (Nottingham)

Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
From: Sooz
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 06:04 AM

Our mate Titch Rivett is featured on that site.

She is an expert on our Lincolnshire dialect and has some brilliant stories to tell.

Subject: Accents and Dialect
From: s&r
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 04:13 AM

Other threads have discussed this topic, and that led to my finding this fascinating site

Well worth a look

Stu