tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post6212176156233800442..comments2023-08-08T11:48:10.725+01:00Comments on swisslet: let's go native....swisslethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708248700851998044noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post-91955882291634317462013-05-02T00:00:37.931+01:002013-05-02T00:00:37.931+01:00As a Londoner, who has lived in Yorkshire longer t...As a Londoner, who has lived in Yorkshire longer than in the Centre of the Universe (well it is), my vowels and speed of speech betray me less than word choice: while not whilst, since not while, among not amongst, alley not ginnel.<br />Although at a party , a sociolinguist accurately placed my accent to within two miles of where I grew up. It's interesting to (amateurishly) try and place people's accents. I usually can distinguish North/South/ East/ West London accents and major geographical regions e.g. Yorkshire v Lancashire, but am constantly stumped by Suffolk. Northampton? No chance.<br />Honeysucklenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post-24188878340135262912013-05-01T23:32:44.648+01:002013-05-01T23:32:44.648+01:00I'm hopeless at accents - I always thought a b...I'm hopeless at accents - I always thought a bloke I worked with was Welsh, when he was in fact a Geordie. As soon as I found out three years' worth of conversational gambits on the subject of Wales, and his curious reluctance to discuss his motherland, flashed through my mind. At least I could tell what he was saying. One of the most nerve-wracking conversations I ever had was in a club in Newcastle (a dreadful, dreadful mistake), from about 15 seconds in I was constantly thinking, "If I say <i>what?</i> one more time this bloke's going to thump me". He may as well have been speaking Polish.<br /><br />As for my own accent, like you I don't really think I've got one. This was sort of borne out when I heard a recording of my own voice without realising I was listening to myself (I'd accidentally left a message on my home number instead of my wife's mobile and then checked our messages a few hours later). I thought it was a message from my brother. So, yes, I sound exactly like my brother.Artoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01846359529440273892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post-16678984878981885062013-05-01T22:14:44.738+01:002013-05-01T22:14:44.738+01:00ah - foxy! a delight to see you. School made suc...ah - foxy! a delight to see you. School made such an impression on me that, to this day, I still take it as a (slightly childish) badge of pride that almost nobody picks me out as being a public schoolboy from my the way I speak or from my accent. Posh? Possibly, but not *that* posh.<br /><br />Ironically, I not only met one of my most cherished friends at school, but she is Northampton born and bred.<br /><br />Threelight - Manchester and SA? That's an accent combination to conjure with.swisslethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16708248700851998044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post-52112401128683747392013-05-01T21:34:53.925+01:002013-05-01T21:34:53.925+01:00Hello lovely.
One of my housemates in the 1st yea...Hello lovely.<br /><br />One of my housemates in the 1st year of university was from Northampton. She used to say "I kent be doin' with this shite" a lot.<br /><br />Finding it unthinkable that an ex-boarder could speak with anything but a classic "posh" (mild RP) accent, wherever they were born. Is this chippy comp tripe? Probs.<br />Queeniehttp://www.postculturist.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750120863647373520.post-24344453023063351132013-05-01T21:13:19.577+01:002013-05-01T21:13:19.577+01:00Funny about accents. I grew up in South Africa, an...Funny about accents. I grew up in South Africa, and am now living in Manchester. People still struggle to know where I'm from because I don't have the broad Manchester accent, neither do I have a South African accent. <br />Threelighthttp://www.threelightsnews.com/reduxnoreply@blogger.com