So how do you prounounce 'necklace'?

[ceebee74]

Until yesterday, I had only ever heard it pronounced one way - 'neckless' - but yetserday my boss was talking to me and pronounced it as if it was 2 seperate words - i.e. neck-lace.

Does anyone else pronounce it like that as I have never ever heard that before - I wondered what the hell she was talking about

Scon

Why ? I don't know.

oh, also I would say Necklus

East Bridgeford - you?

Scon

Toooooooth

tor- toyse, possobily toy-toyse

Bestwood originally

Now live near Ilkeston. Ilson, should I say... which is Derbyshire really, but hey, I work in Nottingham still

Scon

Otherwise the 'fastest food in the world' gag doesn't work.

Ooh Ilkeston, my mum used to live there, her dad had an electrical shop, many many moons ago...

Oh and I say tortus and scon (but I was called posh for that!)

more like neckl∂ss
[no schwa key, grr]

and sconn not scohn

Neckluss. But then I'm northern.

Only a hoity toity tortoise would call itself a tortus.

Is scon posh then Posey? I am quite posh now...

And yes the Nottingham accent is brilliant. No-one can do it, unless you come from Notts.

The tortus would say scon whilst wearing her necklus

Neckless. (To wear it you have to be reckless. And maybe a little bit feckless.)

I also say goozbree. Not goose-berreee.

And ha'penny, not half-penny.

I have completely sold out to the south now - hardly ever get home these days. have even been known to say barth ... arrgghhhh

Well, it's not barth, it's baaaath. I'm always being accused by northerners of "putting an r in".

I'm a scouser - neckluss

scon was posh where I grew up, but the reverse was true where dh grew up. There scon was common, scone was posh

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Baaaaath. You're avin a larf now

and I supose it's daaaarnce too. and aaarsk.

I'm a northener who has now lived in London longer than the north so have lost some of my accent (while firmly keeping flat a). Dh is southeren and our dc were pretty mixed pre-school. Now they are defo southern but will occasionally have a bath (not barth) or sit on the grass, not grars, but only rarely.
If I went back home and said bath or grars I would be accused of being posh

There is no R - that's the point, and it's a point northerners miss. It's not an R, it's a long vowel.

so is it ass or arrrrrse?

It sounds like you're putting an r in it though.

And The North? How very dare you. Nottingham is in the Midlands.

Posey, you aren't my sil are you??!!

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arse definitely