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catmate · 06/03/2022 22:19

I am really sorry if this has been done to death but I thought it might be fun to guess where we are from based on our pronunciation? I would have loved to have studied linguistics and I love this kind of thing. BtW the way the last thing I want is arguments or piss taking, it's just a bit of fun. To begin with (me) 'fack' for 'fuck'

OP posts:
SkinnywannabeKBH · 06/03/2022 23:52

'Bout ye? What's the craic?

Annonymiss123 · 06/03/2022 23:54

@SkinnywannabeKBH

'Bout ye? What's the craic?
Belfast
FluffyBooBoo · 06/03/2022 23:54

@SkinnywannabeKBH

'Bout ye? What's the craic?
Norn irn. Couldn't say where exactly though.
oakleaffy · 06/03/2022 23:54

@SkinnywannabeKBH

'Bout ye? What's the craic?
Eire?
oakleaffy · 06/03/2022 23:56

@Perhapser

A left mi bewk ont buzz
Yorkshire?..But I realise it's a huge County.
MrPoppysParka · 06/03/2022 23:56

@Raaarrrrrrrr Northampton, actually! Not as common as it used to be though, you only really hear it on older people.

StrugglingArtist · 06/03/2022 23:56

@LifeIsBusy

I dinnae really ken whit ye mean.
Maybe southwest Scotland?
Lampface · 06/03/2022 23:58

Wit's gone aun? Am tae scunnered fae this game!

Craftycorvid · 06/03/2022 23:59

@MrsMoastyToasty - lovely Brizzle twang, that.

So....ow bist, butties?

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 07/03/2022 00:06

Cheers Drive!

CarltonPeach · 07/03/2022 00:10

@SingleHandSue

Surely yum from Shropshire?

saltinesandcoffeecups · 07/03/2022 00:10

If you have seen the movie you know the accent. (It’s real… in the area I’m from)

Show me your accent!
Donthavesanity · 07/03/2022 00:19

I don't have the local accent but my dh and dc do. They say shot instead of throw/thrown. Say like about a hundred times a sentence and say winder, yeller instead of window and yellow.

isthismylifenow · 07/03/2022 05:24

C'mon Bru. Put foot, we said we'de be there now now.

LaMarschallin · 07/03/2022 05:28

@ChazsBrilliantAttitude

LaMarschallin

South Wales Valleys?

Spot on Smile

LaMarschallin · 07/03/2022 05:31

@SirVixofVixHall

...as are you, SirVix DaffodilSmile

ongabairt · 07/03/2022 05:32

T'awreet mon?
Aye. Happen.
Ar't gooin' aight toneet?
Naow, stayin' in.
Sithee t'morn neet then.
Sithee serri.

SusanSHelit · 07/03/2022 05:48

Ee ar lad nice one that's sound tha

LemonDrizzles · 07/03/2022 12:18

Fahn for fan, cahn for can
Zeebrah, for zebra

LemonDrizzles · 07/03/2022 12:19

@ongabairt

T'awreet mon? Aye. Happen. Ar't gooin' aight toneet? Naow, stayin' in. Sithee t'morn neet then. Sithee serri.
Scottish?
EdgeOfSeventeenAndThreeQuarter · 07/03/2022 12:26

@FluffyBooBoo I’m probably further north than you - but I’m jist a filthy sooth-moother! Grin

DoorLion · 07/03/2022 12:27

I don't have the local accent, but my uncle and aunt do. This is the proper accent, not the London accent people think of as being from round here - this poem is at our train station:

I see young Nat come outer his,
As I come outer mine,
" An' where you off to, booy ? " I sez,
You're dressed up somethin' fine ! "

" I'm gooin' by the trine," he say,
In harf an hour or sao,
I'm goon to XXX to-day,"
He say, " if you must knaow."

He'd never bin to XXX!
He hadn't, I'll be boun'.
Well, tha's a caution, ent it, sir,
He'd never sin the town !

He oughter went next Saddy, sir,
When I shall be a goon,
For tha's the day for XXX —
A Saddy arternoon.

(There's a lot more of it!)

Spidey66 · 07/03/2022 12:30

Gerra ou’a my pub!

PuppyMonkey · 07/03/2022 12:37

I’m feelin dead badleh cos I gorra code me doork.

Anoisagusaris · 07/03/2022 12:49

@wearewizardsofoz

Alrigh' luv? My accen' is just a bi' borin'. I like bu'er on my bred.

The ' is dropped letters.

I’m hearing that as a pure Dub accent