Does you speak proper England like?

[Gram43]

Originally Posted by yazzyfooty

A couple months ago on the way to the Stoney we stopped at the services and while waiting for our meal the woman behind the counter must have called me 'lurve' at least 10 times. I wanted to grab her by neck and tell her I wasnt her 'lurve' and for her to show some respect for paying customer.

Nearly as bad as saying "know what I mean John" and "awight John!"

Years ago I worked for an office machine company and had to organise some mini exhibitions of the company's machinery. Mailshots were sent out and all directed to large companies and local authorities.

We held one of the exhibitions on the outskirts of Edinburgh and a guy from a local council in Inverness made his way to the venue to see us. After showing him the machines he was interested in, we sat down and had some of the buffet lunch waiting for us. During our conversation, just about after every word the guy said "Ken" and "Ye Ken". Now I knew what he meant, but after I took his order and he went on his way my boss came up to me and said how nice the man seemed and how pleased he was that we'd received an order so soon, then just after he left me his parting shot was "bye the way, who is Ken and where was he!"

Don't you just love it.

[liamm]

the Northern Ireland equivilant is awful, so it is .........
people have a tendancy to clarify things they have just said., so they do.
eg "i went home early, so i did. It was bloody freezing, so it was. And then i saw our Assumpta, so i did, she's a right hooer, so she is. Gets righ on my tits, so she does" and so on and on and on and on,

so it does....

[Can't beat 'em, join 'em]

Originally Posted by liamm

the Northern Ireland equivilant is awful, so it is .........
people have a tendancy to clarify things they have just said., so they do.
eg "i went home early, so i did. It was bloody freezing, so it was. And then i saw our Assumpta, so i did, she's a right hooer, so she is. Gets righ on my tits, so she does" and so on and on and on and on,

so it does....

Ach Bejesus. To be sure, I dont know what ya problem is there, so I don't.

:ducking:

My grandmother spoke just like that
She was insane though;
She wouldn't get a colour TV because it was just a fad and everyone would go back to proper black and white (1989ish)
She thought the IRA was basically the armed division of the boy scout "Grand bunch o' lads, so they are"
And acording to my mother I should have known her in the 60's/70's before she got old and ill and lost her fire, she was even worse

[Arfie]

Oooh the Bolton equivalent of "so it is" when I worked up there was "is it not?" or similar:

"they go over there, do they not?"
"You need to see him, do you not?"

Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhhh
Arfie

[big_si]

Why you no speak proper Englands like what I did when we was a children?!?!?

[Can't beat 'em, join 'em]

Originally Posted by big_si

Why you no speak proper Englands like what I did when we was a children?!?!?

How long did it take you to put that together?
It took me four attempts to decipher it!

[Sooty Stoo]

My biggest pet hate is this grim, uneducated area of East Lancashire is the locals seem to spell words with a ck rather than tt.

For example : "Just a lickle bit more from the blue bockle please"

My worst bad habit (although my ball and chain will call in to point out many many more) is that I tend to copy peoples accents whilst I talk to them. That and resorting to Californian surfer talk when I get bored.

[Can't beat 'em, join 'em]

Originally Posted by Sooty Stoo

My biggest pet hate is this grim, uneducated area of East Lancashire is the locals seem to spell words with a ck rather than tt.

For example : "Just a lickle bit more from the blue bockle please"

My worst bad habit (although my ball and chain will call in to point out many many more) is that I tend to copy peoples accents whilst I talk to them. That and resorting to Californian surfer talk when I get bored.

Originally Posted by Sooty Stoo

OMG I married a chav

CHAV! Ball and Chain! Oh boy your for it now
No amount of soft scots accent is going to get you out of this!
And actually your worst bad habit is correcting MY speach/grammer!
STOP PICKING ON ME!!!


Cleansing breath.....and relax

[chrisch]

ENOUGH..

I like regional variations and accents (so I do). So chuff off all of yers.

What drives me mad is that in the time I have been living overseas the word "yes" has dissapeared from the inglish language. Being nearly a foreigner I still use it as do all my (foreigner) friends and acquaintances.

Now contractions are a nice thing and a feature of all spoken language, especially Italian, a language that seems to end most words with "o" and so many folk leave them off. My girlfriend's mum would offer you a glass of Bardolin' or Chiant' with yer nosebag.

But the idiot inglish have extended the word "yes" and now use "absolutely" all the effing time. Stop it. Its not wonderful amazing incredible innit. its over use of superlatives that devalues them. Like bloody swearing.

STOP IT NOW.

Thank you.

Chris

[Gram43]

When we moved to Northumberland last year (although we'd been visiting the area for 7 years) we got to really like the accent here and during this year we had some local tradesmen in doing work for us. We gutted the house and had everything renewed. However we had a plasterer do various jobs and the phrases he always used were:
"aye, nee botha" and "I divvent na", great as it took us a while to understand what they meant - "yes, no bother" and "I don't know!"