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

Well I'm from No'unum and I say
neckluss
tor-toise
sc-own
tooth

but unlike my (Il'son) Dad I say
po-ett-ry
not poytrey

and
cuttle-ry
not
cutler-y

My DSs have the local accent, so would say smaaart arrrse (think Bill Bailey talking about growing up in the West Country).

A-ha Blu and you must also say cheey-us for cheese!! and Pleey-us for please!

dd3 pronounces it 'heckless'

neckluss

and she pronounces cheesestring

hnees hning

neckless/lass/luss

here.

I am also a scon rather than scown person

although i grew up in Nottingham I have a more rp accent because my mum put me through years of elocution lessons and exams.
hearing the notts on this thread makes me really sad as i feel i lost out by not having accent in common. conversely the accent makes my mum cringe as she did everything to try to stop us "sounding common" like her.

It doesn't sound like an R

grrrrr!!!

Roland Barthes

does not sound like

the way I say bath (baaath)

Oh, it's been so lovely to hear from so many local folk on this thread but I gotta go now.

Just goin' oop Ilkeston Rode to gerron the Wolla'on Rode and then off ome. Ta-ra mi ducks!

how would you pronounce this place name-
Slathwaite

everyone in the office (Bradford) creased up laughing when I had to say this word.

neckless

Northern exile in the south

Neckless
Tortus (you'd never say Tortoyse-shell, as in tortoiseshell comb, would you?)
Graa(r)ss
Baa(r)th
Paa(r)th
Scone, rhyming with cone

And that's the way it's always been. I am outrageously posh (sounding) though, teased for it even

Slathutt

oh and tooooooth.

Tuthpaste, I a(r)sk you!

You can walk for miles up here without hearing a single long vowel - it totally amazes me. And then you get over the south-west edge of the city and they are everywhere.

I thought it was Slath- wait
but the locals tell me it is Sla-wit. Go figure.

Sla-witt

dh is from Notts and says neckless but says butcher and books sometimes like 'buttcher' and 'bucks' - weird... his mum and brothers say things like 'veget-ables'

what about Southwell for you Notts people ?

DW says veg-et-a-bles. Weird. I say vej't'bles.

suthell for most people, only South-well for those pretending to be posh. Like from minster school iirc....

That Butcher thing Maryanne! Drives me mad. I have spent hours trying to coach my BIL to say butcher in a soft southern style and it keeps coming out buhtchah.

dh doesn't say it all the time being down south for so long, but it makes me wince when he does...