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AIBU: TO REALLY STRUGGLE TO UNDERSTAND PEOPLE... (Title edited by MNHQ)

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Penisbeakerismyfavethread · 03/11/2018 00:11

This week at work I have heard “Lickle”, “Hospickle” and “Punkin” used instead of little, hospital and Pumpkin, and it really confuses me. So wibu to ask if there are any words like this that really get to you?

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IStandWithPosie · 03/11/2018 00:14

Yes you are. Of course you are. How could this thread be anything other than mocking a particular dialect?!

OkPedro · 03/11/2018 00:18

Can anyone really say hospickle and lickle are dialects? I don't have an issue with the words but surely they're just been pronounced incorrectly?
I love a Northern English accent. Sounds so genuine and hearty :-D

FastWindow · 03/11/2018 00:18

YABU to describe yourself as confused. You clearly understand what they meant?

Penisbeakerismyfavethread · 03/11/2018 00:19

The title should perhaps be am I the only one that is so bloody sheltered having lived in the same Tiny village my whole life, that it takes me a solid ten minutes after my conversation ends to understand what certain words mean
I was pointing out my confusion in my op, but my title is definitely a bit mean.

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Penisbeakerismyfavethread · 03/11/2018 00:23

@fastwiddow
No - genuine confusion.
Have you ever heard Likkle with a Scottish accent? Sounds like leek. Really changes the sentence.
I’ve been doing secretarial work on the side typing up minutes in the evenings and it’s really bloody hard.

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FastWindow · 03/11/2018 00:23

You might want to rethink your MN name. It doesn't come across well.

FastWindow · 03/11/2018 00:25

And I'm not a widdow. Gentle hint--get names right. Smile

Penisbeakerismyfavethread · 03/11/2018 00:29

Oh flipping hell sorry, fastwindow

Not sure you’re getting at with your comment about my username but I change very regularly so that’s fine

Also sorry all I realise I am just being rude and grumpy.
I don’t have a real problem with accents I’m just losing my rag with these minutes I’m typing after starting work at 730 this morning. It’s been a long day.

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HarrietSchulenberg · 03/11/2018 00:29

Secketary instead of secretary for me. Not dialect, just plain mispronunciation. Bockle instead of bottle too, usually only used in relation to babies' drinks. You never hear anyone in Bargain Booze asking for a bockle of vodka.

Penisbeakerismyfavethread · 03/11/2018 00:30

For example someone is someone complaining about their fickle sister causing childhood trauma (by her fickle nature for example) or is the sister just younger ?

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PickAChew · 03/11/2018 00:31

I love a Northern English accent.

Which one?

Penisbeakerismyfavethread · 03/11/2018 00:31

My comment just made no sense I need to go to bdd

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OkPedro · 03/11/2018 00:43

pickachew Don't be a dick
Obviously lickle hospickle etc are said in a NE accent but obviously there are many NE accents

FastWindow · 03/11/2018 00:50

Apology accepted op.

New-cue-ler for nuclear and accept instead of except. My only bugbears. I love and encourage all other malapropisms. Spatchlier, (spatula) being my favourite.

Tippexy · 03/11/2018 01:01

When Brummies say mom instead of mum.

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OkPedro · 03/11/2018 01:14

tip What's wrong with saying Mom if you are from Birmingham? I met a lovely brum family on holiday a few years back. Mom suits that accent perfectly.
I won't let my dc call me Ma or Mum (we're Irish) because it sounds ridiculous in our accent that however doesn't mean there's anything wrong with others using Ma or Mum

OkPedro · 03/11/2018 01:15

Exactly user pmsl

Oswin · 03/11/2018 01:19

I can't say mum without sounding like I'm putting on a weird accent.

OkPedro · 03/11/2018 01:20

fastwindow How do you say nuclear? I can't remember how I say it hahaha!

Aintnothingbutaheartache · 03/11/2018 01:21

Mam for me 😬

TheWiseWomansFear · 03/11/2018 01:22

My nana used to say all of them (Yorkshire she was born late 1920s) none of the rest of my family do

OkPedro · 03/11/2018 01:24

Yes aintnothing I'm currently Mammy but in a few years I'll be Mam. My ds is 7, he's desperate to call me Mam coz Mammy is for babies but he just can't do it yet :-D

FastWindow · 03/11/2018 01:30

okpedro I say new-clea-uh. But I'm home counties now. Was I back in Bristol, it'd be new-clurrr Smile but never nuculerr.

OkPedro · 03/11/2018 01:37

I'm so confused fastwindow :-D I think I say "New Cue Lur" I love accents though.. l love hearing all the differences, especially between Irish and British accents considering we are such close neighbours