It's summer in England when it's difficult to avoid hearing about a Village Fete somewhere. Where I grew up we all spoke with a strong Derbyshire dialect and the word 'fight' was pronounced 'fate' so I used to think a Village Fete was a mass brawl.
Local dialect.
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Ey up me duck. Did you call blokes ‘love’ too? I remember moving to Wakefield and being surprised when the barman called me ‘love’.It's summer in England when it's difficult to avoid hearing about a Village Fete somewhere. Where I grew up we all spoke with a strong Derbyshire dialect and the word 'fight' was pronounced 'fate' so I used to think a Village Fete was a mass brawl.
THAT was fighting talk where I came from!!
'Mi duck' is a South Derbyshire term used for men or women which comes as a 'surprise' to many from outside the area! I'm originally from North East Derbyshire where the dialect is similar to South Yorkshire, but we didn't call people 'love' normally. So, greeting Derby folk it's ' Ey up mi duck' whereas around Chesterfield it was 'Ay up' or 'All rate youth?'
I'm originally from North East Derbyshire where the dialect is similar to South Yorkshire, but we didn't call people 'love' normally. So, greeting Derby folk it's ' Ey up mi duck' whereas around Chesterfield it was 'Ay up' or 'All rate youth?'
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I was born and raised in Glasgow where even within the one city you had various slants on dialect never mind going elsewhere in Scotland
A few words in Scottish dialect that are used sometimes in my dail language and you dont think about it like foosty ( you would say this about fruit with mould its gone foosty)
We call our kids weans ( pronounce wayne) i could go on .
But yes across the uk as a whole there is quite a diverse amount of localised ways of speaking and many different accents across the uk which i do find quite amazing as size wise we are quite a small land mass .
Stephen.
A few words in Scottish dialect that are used sometimes in my dail language and you dont think about it like foosty ( you would say this about fruit with mould its gone foosty)
We call our kids weans ( pronounce wayne) i could go on .
But yes across the uk as a whole there is quite a diverse amount of localised ways of speaking and many different accents across the uk which i do find quite amazing as size wise we are quite a small land mass .
Stephen.
Why Aye, and don’t get me started on South Yorks lingo. Sithee.
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Our local dialect allowed this advert to be shown on Scottish tv without complaints ( about 12 yr old now)
View: https://youtu.be/ibuLgsVcQUY?si=HFOmIFrXkOtMGheL
Loved watching Rab Nesbitt Stevo! 'See you, see me, see the the sea....' etc !
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Ken go on i player and watch some
Scot Squad modern but clever written comedy if you had never seen it and came across it mid episode would take you a couple of minutes to realise it wasn't real life scenes.
Rab C no seen that in ages
Stephen.
Scot Squad modern but clever written comedy if you had never seen it and came across it mid episode would take you a couple of minutes to realise it wasn't real life scenes.
Rab C no seen that in ages
Stephen.
Born and bred in south Lancashire a place called Bryn
Growing up where I lived it had so many accents mostly down to king coal and the railway
I have a wigan accent but
At the age of 14 you had to go before the fishing commit to ask for a fishing licence for the local ponds at the star hotel(pub)
I went there and did not understand what they said to me (they were old pit men)
I still have friends who text in wiganess I am dyslexic so that goes down well
My nan/nine was welsh from a large immigrant welsh community who would speak welsh if she was angry
A good Irish population
The over flow from Liverpool in the 60s lead to lots of Scouse accents in my home town
Now the there are a lot more accents but I don't recognised them
Growing up where I lived it had so many accents mostly down to king coal and the railway
I have a wigan accent but
At the age of 14 you had to go before the fishing commit to ask for a fishing licence for the local ponds at the star hotel(pub)
I went there and did not understand what they said to me (they were old pit men)
I still have friends who text in wiganess I am dyslexic so that goes down well
My nan/nine was welsh from a large immigrant welsh community who would speak welsh if she was angry
A good Irish population
The over flow from Liverpool in the 60s lead to lots of Scouse accents in my home town
Now the there are a lot more accents but I don't recognised them
I had a student friend in the sixties called Pete Simmons, we just called him Wigan on account of his accent! I called at a cafe near Wigan some years back and asked what a pie was that didn't quite look like apple. 'What that thurr? That's purr thurr' came the answer.
I had a girlfriend from Stafford who I took to my brothers wedding
she went the hairdresser In the morning before the ceremony
On her return
She said I like my hair cut but
I have not a clue what most of them said I assume part of it was an order from a pie shop
as 10 mins later a tray of pies arrived
she went the hairdresser In the morning before the ceremony
On her return
She said I like my hair cut but
I have not a clue what most of them said I assume part of it was an order from a pie shop
as 10 mins later a tray of pies arrived
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Brilliant you cant beat a bit of local culture
Stephen.
Love to hear a strong regional accent - I always remember playing golf as a kid with a few lads from over the border in Barnsley. We'd finished golf and were drinking coke and having a game of snooker. One of them said to me what time you laking tomorrow - I was like what! He'd said it 3 times before one of the other lads helped me out by telling me he means playing. People from Barnsley call people from Sheffield De Dars we call them Dingles.
Shane Meadows has done some great stuff with strong regional accents - This Is England and Dead Man's Shoes are 2 great films and the recent BBC drama he did called The Gallows Pole was very good
But this my all time favourite accent related comedy sketch - its been around forever but there might be someone who still hasn't seen it
View: https://youtu.be/HbDnxzrbxn4?si=aHmDCNRKzJ5beoXd
Shane Meadows has done some great stuff with strong regional accents - This Is England and Dead Man's Shoes are 2 great films and the recent BBC drama he did called The Gallows Pole was very good
But this my all time favourite accent related comedy sketch - its been around forever but there might be someone who still hasn't seen it
Brilliant 
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Or was it feteing talk?
Black country born and bred. where do I start…..
Youm Yampy - someone who is daft but loveable, someone who is daft, mad or losing the plot
All around the Wrekin - having to take the longer route
Madden - wild
Bally - Stomach
That grubs Reasty - gone off
Kayl- drunk
An episode of the Grimleys is will give an idea.
Youm Yampy - someone who is daft but loveable, someone who is daft, mad or losing the plot
All around the Wrekin - having to take the longer route
Madden - wild
Bally - Stomach
That grubs Reasty - gone off
Kayl- drunk
An episode of the Grimleys is will give an idea.
My long term colleague was/is a Brummie, yet when he and I (from London) were in GKN Sankey's Bilston factory a long time ago, an apprentice was helping set up a press for us when another apprentice appeared and said to the first: "Wot yeeow doin' ower keed?" Even my Brummie colleague was surprised. This was during the Jim Callaghan winter of discontent and we had many power interruptions which were, according to another Bilston lad "pocus" (power cuts). Considering that Brum and the Black Country are not more than about 100 miles from London, the dialect difference between, say, these lads, and their equivalents from Croydon is massive.Black country born and bred. where do I start…..
Youm Yampy - someone who is daft but loveable, someone who is daft, mad or losing the plot
All around the Wrekin - having to take the longer route
Madden - wild
Bally - Stomach
That grubs Reasty - gone off
Kayl- drunk
An episode of the Grimleys is will give an idea.
when my wife first met my parents I usually had to interpret some words for her but I thought she would have got what a buz was (bus) As soon as we were going home to Banbury she would say ok we’ve gone past Bromagrove now so nock that fffing accent off.
I was working in a factory in wigan in the 90s
A new starter a man from Liverpool called Joe was left in my care for his first day.
At lunch time my boss said to him
"Goo n geet thy Jackbit lad"= go and get your lunch young man
An hour later he came back quiet upset saying "who the **** is jack bit
every one say he's in canteen
Then in the canteen everyone looked at me as if I was simple when I asked had anybody seen jack bit "
A new starter a man from Liverpool called Joe was left in my care for his first day.
At lunch time my boss said to him
"Goo n geet thy Jackbit lad"= go and get your lunch young man
An hour later he came back quiet upset saying "who the **** is jack bit
every one say he's in canteen
Then in the canteen everyone looked at me as if I was simple when I asked had anybody seen jack bit "