to want to slap people who say LAY down when they mean LIE down?

[UnquietDad]

That's it, really.

or when he cries tell him to stop gerrin hisself in a two an eight

mustsleep - ibuprofen or brufen (med talk)

People round here say skew-ell for school. It's weird.

wtf is a whistle and flute??

they say that in Liverpool too

then with the borrowed tenner or a nifty if your feeling lucky, you could take him to the rub a dub, followed by jellied eels and tell him get your laughing gear round this

The poor man will run a mile!!!!

It's interesting how people get het-up about accents (not here but in RL), assuming that they signify intelligence. What is the accepted pronunciation in one area is no more 'correct' than what is accepted in another. I had a friend who, when on teaching practice in a fairly 'posh' area of South Manchester, was accused of teaching the children to speak like they do in Coronation Street!
Personally, I am from Birmingham; my mum is from South London; my dad is from Stockport; I lived for 9 years in Hong Kong and have since lived up and down England. Therefore I used long and clipped vowels interchangerably.
I am, however, a stickler for using the correct words - however you pronounce them!

Anna - I had you down as from a working class background.

Hi Tigers - fine thanks and you?

Just want to say how much I love accents from all regions but do have to confess (and not proud of it) to having a bit of a prejudice about posh accents. Maybe it stems from growing up on a council estate.

I too grew up on a council estate and think it is obvious by the way I speak, DP however did not, and I remember the first time a friend of mine met him, his first observation was 'crikey lorayn, isn't he well spoken'

I'm a south-westerner, living in the north-east, with a dh from the north-west and sons who have grown up round here.
I get teased by my kids for long vowel sounds. And they fall about laughing if i say 'loo' for toilet.
I don't mind a tiny bit what accent they have.
The only thing I hate is Americanisms.

Tiger - I agree accents are not important, some people are not as articulate as others, whats more important is WHAT you say.

It isn't obvious from the way I speak as my mum was well spoken and used to tell us off if we dropped our h's or used slang. I did work very hard though to acquire a sarf london accent and now am somewhere in-between.

Ladylush, I speak correctly, I was forever warned about t's and h's, but, as soon as I get a drink in me or get angry I go straight into a kat slater style torrent of abuse!

lady - thats funny my son has a friend named Arry and my son laughed as me because i called him Harry.

i love it when cockneys try to speak 'posh' Hello How Har Hou

he was called arry??
really???
WTH

I love Kat Slatah My dh often jokes to me "You can take the girl out of but you can't take out of the girl"!

law3 - when my dad was at school his nick-name was 'Arry' which is short for his surrname. Some of the teachers called him 'Harry' as they thought the boys were just being lazy and dropping the H. His name is Philip so Harry made no sense at all!!

'Could/should/would of' have been widely used in speach for a long time as people mis-hear could've. It sounds so similar that I don't recognise it. But, when it is written down it is so obviously wrong that it grates like nobody's business!

Ladylush - bit low today; Gran died this morning so trying to keep busy until I can speak to my mum and find out what is going on.

speech obviously

Oh no, so sorry to hear that Was she ill or was it unexpected?

Was rushed to hosptial on Saturday night, had an op on Sunday to remove a blockage from her bowel which turned out to be a tumour; seemed to be improving but died this morning. Luckily I went to see her yesterday.

Anyway - this isn't what the thread is about!

Another bugbear of mine is the whole I/me thing - it really isn't complicated as it follows the same rule the whole time!!

Oh - affect is a verb (The weather will affect the number of people who come to the fete) while effect is a noun ( The main effect on the number of people at the fete was the weather.)

lorayn - Its a popular name in the South East, i suppose because they know they are not going to pronounce the 'H'.

I thought my son was being lazy and just calling him Arry, but thats actually his name.

tiger - my son at about 3 used to always say me, ie me want, i was always correcting, not me, i.

He then shouted out to me at the park, mum look at i.

her looking at me, no she is looking.

Son - i like she's hat.