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

Just wanted to add that I don't think I have ever started a thread that got this many posts before - they usually stop after about 5!

yes that's it brake fast!!LOL

I'm always aware of my accent when I'm up in Notts and feel a bit weird (it's posh-ish and southern)

so when you do lapse its in a south east or northern accent?
strange that people do this to try to fit in or assert their individuallity in this way.

No slur intended on you UQD, hope you didn't take umberage.

Oh, south-eastern - "Estuary" - it's my natural accent I suppose. But it sounds "posh" to people up here and I play up to that.

Not Lawrence LL-Bowen and not Simon from The Apprentice - somewhere halfway between the two.

I know someone who says neck-lace. Shudder.
UQD - Explains why you are so grumpy, justifiably so.
Blu - cuttle-ry is just plain wrong.

I think the Badedas was the best test ever. As I said on the last thread I couldn't ever be friends with someone who said Badeee-dar

swedes - LOL - do you mean grumpy in this discussion or in general? And what explains it, having to live in Yorkshire? (I often feel that way myself.)

dh hates Yorkshire

UQD - In general - not just on faith school threads. I am a southerner and lived for a long time in Durham and North Yorks. I found that when I moved back south I had to recalibrate my miserableometer.

I'm not grumpy. I'm actually quite funny.

I just get annoyed in "pet" topics.

UQD - isn't that a non sequitur?

I'm not critical. I'm actually quite tanned. [smile}

Maybe funny is the wrong word. I am lighthearted more often than grumpy on here.

I'm pretty sure that the original pronounciation for necklace would've been neck lace and breakfast would've been break fast...
'Neck lace' because old fashioned jewels around the neck would've resembled lace around the neck ]
And you would have broken your over night fast, therefore break fast=breakfast.

My Ds used to call my mum mammar (mam ma)because he couldn't say grandma...mum was asked if Dgs was Danish as mammar(sp?) is Danish for grandma, grand mother etc...

My mum is from Yorkshire, still has her(very proud)Yorkshire accent after 47/48 years in London and I've always been called posh and I'm a Londoner, but growing up, mum would ask if we kids had had our baths? and we'd answer, yes, we've had our barths! Oh and it's scons all round with us!

For those who pronounce necklace as 'neckless' - how do you pronounce shoelace - 'shoeless '?

And another thing...when we used to visit family in Yorkshire as kids, I suddenly and within minutes sported a wonderful Yorkshire accent...but trying to teach my cousins to say ' bus' in a London accent was a nightmare! must've been the fresh air!

Wai-trose or Wait-rose?

Oh and if you live in Bristol does Asda become Asdal?

Is Badedas not 'Bad-dee-dass'?

Come to think of it, I encountered it when young, in Not'n'um - if I had first encountered it in my euro-aware poncy grown-up days I would have assumed it was 'Baday-da'.

Like 'Nessulls' and 'Nestlay'

Crikey UQD - Roland Barthes! There's a name I haven't heard since I was at uni 20 years ago.

Just a quick correction re Southwell... if you live there it's South Well. Only people who don't live there call it Suthall.

My goodness but there are more people with connections to the East Midlands on MN than I realised..

Yes. Nannaar and Mammarr are HORRIBLE!!

LOL at Shoeless...

Neckliss
Skon
Tooth
Tortus

(DH is welsh so Tuth... i love it , and yer for ear)

Neckliss? That's just plain WRONG!

Lol! I sat here saying it for ages to work out if I was a less, luss, lass or what, and both DH & I agreed I am a liss

(Well, he was agreeing that I was very odd, but still...)

Solo. thats interesting about Southwell ( Notts ) Many moons ago I had a boyfriend from Collingham ( near Newark. ) His mum and Aunt had lived grown up living in Southwell. HIs Granny and Aunt still live there. They all pronounce it South-ull, not South-Well as I would have thought it be called.
They use to take the P* out of me for many of my pronunciations. i always thought it a it of a 'Pot - Kettle " situation With all of them coming from the Nottingham area, apparently I was incredibly posh. Not something I would describe my accent as!

Not me Susieutie! ;)

ooo, so you live there do you Solo?

I must apologise for my terrible typing in the post before, some of it makes no sense at all!

Solo, they actually pronounce it Suth-oll, with at hard TH sound. IYSWIM ?