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

I also wish I could stop DD and DS saying "oop".

tell me, in Notts or East Midlands generally - is there a special name for mum or grandma- I think I might have heard ds's cousins say something

mummar or mammar

DS and DD say this too

drives me NUTS

NECK-LUSS

My nephew says mummar and I always thought it was just his way of saying grandma!! Didn't realise it was a regional thing....

mammar or nannar

"you're daft mi duck, yer swalla ballooons, tha wears tha faethers pantaloons!"

oh God Unquiet - that's it !! is your dw from E Midlands then ?

she is

chuggabops - my DH is from near there - it's sla-witt

he comes from a village called skelmanthorpe - the locals all call it 'shat'

bloody country hicks.

my mate from manchester pronounces Nottingham 'not n em'.

really fecks me off when ILs refer to my mum as "yer other mummar" too

She is GRANDMA

not round here - it's 'Nannan'!

uqd- you seem embarased by the regional origins of your wife. Are you so high born then?

Its mamgu here is Wales!

"nannan" here in Yorks too (shudder)

visions of uqd chastising and over anunciating-
She is your Grand Ma mar!

only ribbing.

my paternal grandmother was referred to as m'ma
Unquiet - will you divulge where in E Midlands ?

a suburb of Nottingham

medows? hyson green? (bet it isn't) more like the park?

Arnold ?
Carlton ?

I've not heard of any of those places to be honest. Why are people so keen to track her down?!

My collegue at work says (is that sez or says!) break fast for breakfast. She says it as two separate words

not stalking her, just interested because dh is from thereabouts and you never know they might know each other - not so strange as ds's teacher went to same school as dh and lived in next village yet both ended up in West London...I picked up on her origins from the way she said a few words like dh..

poppy - MIL says 'brake-fast' and cereals

It's 'suthull' for Southwell and 'rennuth' for Rainworth.
I'm a northern (Newcastle) exile in nottingham and I feel freaked when dh says weird things like 'tong' for tongue (instead of tung) and 'scoone' instead of 'scon'/ 'tuth' is the weirdest of all and our children are being taught to speak properly, but tbh in west bridgford where we live it's a lot of southern accents!

Interestingly, when up here in Yorks I probably make myself sound more "posh" to over-compensate. I used to try and sound like the locals and it was ridiculous - I'm "out and proud" now.

It's only when I return to the south-east where I was born (less and less frequent these days) that I lapse into the vernacular and sound like a more "lower-middle-class" local.