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[sirwiggum]

Is everywhere like the UK and Ireland in terms of accents?

Do you find yourself learning bits but stumped by the language in different parts of the country?

Apparently, when The Terminator was going to be dubbed into German, Arnold Schwarzenegger asked to be allowed to speak his own part, as being Austrian, he speaks German fluently. They refused, apparently, because to a German person, his Austrian accent makes him sound like a farmer.

This is yet another Thing I Learned By Watching QI.

Wow! In his films his Austrian accent can be so menacing! Yet to Germans he sounds like he is from Devon / Inverness / Ballymena!

[highlander]

Hey, leave Inverness alone! Lovely city, nice people - no bumpkin accents

[sirwiggum]

Hey, leave Inverness alone! Lovely city, nice people - no bumpkin accents

I remember working in a kitchen in Fife and the Chef was from Inverness, nice old lady, but when she checked the chickens in the oven for temperature using the thermometer probe she would exclaim:

"Aye, the chooks are deed!"

[highlander]

I'm from Caithness, but my parents are from the Glasgow area, so I don't really have much of an accent from anywhere in particular. There was an old taxi driver who we used to use a lot in Thurso when we were getting the shopping (not sure if he's still with us or not) - he was from Aberdeenshire (but rural) and I almost literally couldn't understand a word he said, his accent was so broad.

I now live in Aberdeen and have done for nearly 7 years - but I've still never met anyone with a similar accent.

Caithness dialect is full of all sorts of lovely words. My favourite was always "scorrie" meaning "seagull".

[Welly]

You wanna hear the Leicester accent round here it's bloody awful (I don't do broad leicester, sorry, lesstaH).

Round here they'll say "int-yah" this means "aren't you"

"innit" seems to have crept in because of the Asian influence I think.

Is anybody here guilty of practising the 'high rise terminal' when they speak? this drives me up the wall this is when the speaker adds a fashionable upswing to the end of a sentence so it sounds more of a question

Example: My friend drives lives in a FL A T - like you've never heard of a Flat before

[sirwiggum]

The rise at the end of a sentence - is this called an inflection?

I once saw a programme on TV that blamed it on the rise of Australian soaps and movies and theme pubs in the 80s - Neighbours, Home and Away, Crocodile Dundee etc. because this is a peculuarity of the Australian accent.
Possibly because they are slightly insecure due to being ancestors of convicts, so everything is a question?

Very annoying.

They do it in the adverts of TV Burp, there are different bags of sweets and the man goes "sponsored by, Maltesers?" really irritates me.

[kevtherev]

You wanna hear the Leicester accent round here it's bloody awful (I don't do broad leicester, sorry, lesstaH).

Round here they'll say "int-yah" this means "aren't you"

warra ya on about me duck?? did "me duck" make it down to the south of leicester or is it just the nw corner? i was born and raised in nw leics now live in south derbys and everybody is "me duck"
one i had never heard before till my mrs (who is south derbys raised) came out with it was " whats up with your fissog" fissog meaning face

[sirwiggum]

"Whats up with your bake" = Your face indicates that you are somewhat downhearted.

"Some coupon on him" = His face was a picture / looked downhearted

"I'll knack yer melt in" = I wish to engage in combat possibly resulting in your face becoming knocked in

[Welly]

"Whats up with your bake" = Your face indicates that you are somewhat downhearted.

"Some coupon on him" = His face was a picture / looked downhearted

"I'll knack yer melt in" = I wish to engage in combat possibly resulting in your face becoming knocked in

[Archangel]

keyboards are only buttons in the uk unless you get conned into buying from the likes of PCWorld or Dixons , you shouldn`t need to spend more than a tenner.

[Archangel]

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[Archangel]

You wanna hear the Leicester accent round here it's bloody awful (I don't do broad leicester, sorry, lesstaH).

Round here they'll say "int-yah" this means "aren't you"

"innit" seems to have crept in because of the Asian influence I think.

Is anybody here guilty of practising the 'high rise terminal' when they speak? this drives me up the wall this is when the speaker adds a fashionable upswing to the end of a sentence so it sounds more of a question

Example: My friend drives lives in a FL A T - like you've never heard of a Flat before

innit is a chavvy phrase

[nick]

BTW - I want to add in a Twitter/Facebook link mod PURELY for this post.

You sir, win.



N

[Nicodemus]

Fissog = Physiognomy

On the east side, Me Duck is very common from the Humber down to near Lincoln, thereafter it dies away.

West country (yes I am originally from Devon though grew up a la smoke ) equivalent was m'lover or my lil parrot (very far west and very old fashioned, maybe a piss take latterly). Hers handsome - good looking female, I quite like that one actually. Equally - Handsome caar look - Good looking motor, more Dorset way is the 'look' in spite of Welsh usage.

Lunnen suburbs, 'awight John' just makes me want to feed someone their own gonads, even after nearly 45 years...

Younger Nick what runs site is right, DiscoPol's scrawl is f'g brilliant

Nick

[DiscoPol]

BTW - I want to add in a Twitter/Facebook link mod PURELY for this post.

You sir, win.



N

Glad it made you smile Nick

and please add any mod you feel the need for, i just hope somebody will tell me what that actually means

Disco