to love regional accents

[Owllady]

And love having one myself :) ?

(Has this been done before:o)

I have the worst one too, black country ay it bab

I have ordered the book too :o it looks reall

y interesting

My sister has a fine Norfolk accent now after only twenty years there.

Accents and dialects are amazing.

I love the fact that I could stop at every service station along the route to where my Mother is from and pinpoint exactly where people start to call me 'Duck' when they serve me. It is comforting and familiar because that is what my maternal GPs used.

Oh yes, Will Scarlet in Robin Hood is called that because his hose was made from scarlet fabric - but yes it was a grade of fabric, not the colour. And I had heard about Lincoln green being red!

Not sure if it was to do with natural dyes but synthetic dyes were not invented til Victorian times.

tis grim up norf r' kid
on ilkli moor wi'out an 'at its reyt cold

Yorkshire! :D

Owllady - I grew up a couple of miles from Cannock. Our school's unofficial motto was "It war me, I day do it." There was also strange grammar. For example, some people would say something like "her's got a new job" rather than "she's got a new job". I also remember one of our teachers saying that when she first started teaching there, she couldn't understand anything the pupils were saying. However, not everyone had a really strong accent or used incorrect grammar.

It's interesting that you don't have to go far at all before the accents change and there is such a variety in the UK, although I wonder if that is less so now that people move around more and watch lots of TV.

I wish there were some more regional accents on, for example, children's TV - the children are always RP/Southern (presumably because the programmes are normally made in London). And there are very few Midlands accents on TV. Helena Bonham Carter may be a highly acclaimed actress but her attempt at Wolverhampton accent on Toast was IMHO atrocious!

There was a character in a recent show on the BBC about Land Girls who was from Coventry and - shock - had an actual Coventry accent! There's lots of Warwickshire accents in a Sarah Waters book, I think The Little Stranger?

Halfdrunktea, I was brought up a few miles from cannock too, where the letters on the hills spelt 'Hollywood' :o

You will most probably winder wtf I am in about now