The Strange Way we Talk

simong · Post by **simong** » Mon 22 Apr, 2013 2:42 pm

I grew up in South Yorkshire too and never heard anything other than the flat 'a', then went to university in Middlesbrough where all the locals use the long 'a'. In Leeds it's a mixture.In this end of town a lot of people still talk about going up Putsey or to Bratfud.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Mon 22 Apr, 2013 3:11 pm

vbporscha wrote: It's plaster - faster for me, but I grew up in South Yorkshire from age 6 to 18 so I did pick up a lot of the flat vowels! I have noticed a lot of people from Leeds and Huddersfield seem to pronounce "curry" like "cerry" - anyone else come across that? That's a good one. Just realised I say 'herry up'. And dead people get 'berried'.

Si · Post by Si » Mon 22 Apr, 2013 5:39 pm

salt 'n pepper wrote: On Wigan and pies, I once saw a parked van in that town with a sign in the back window that read.......NO PIES LEFT IN THIS VAN OVERNIGHT This reminds me of a sign I saw once on the back of a plumbers van."The only tool left in this vehicle is the driver."I say master and plaster with a short a sound (brought up in Putsey.)My wife is from Huddersfield, and she says curry like cerry, and worry like werry. Over there, they also pronounce "love" as spelt - not luv.

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Mon 22 Apr, 2013 7:24 pm

As a lad starting my apprenticeship at the Yorkshire Copper Works in Stourton in 1965 it was like entering another world. I had spent my previous 16 years cosseted in the wonderful environment of Middleton.Then when I got there I found people from circa 10 miles away (Castleford) speaking a different language.I said coat to rhyme with boat. They said coit to rhyme with ?????????I said coal to rhyme with hole. They said coil to rhyme with boil.But the best thing is we are still friends after all this time and I am still trying to educate these savages from Cas

majorhoundii · Post by **majorhoundii** » Mon 22 Apr, 2013 7:42 pm

vbporscha wrote: It's plaster - faster for me, but I grew up in South Yorkshire from age 6 to 18 so I did pick up a lot of the flat vowels! I have noticed a lot of people from Leeds and Huddersfield seem to pronounce "curry" like "cerry" - anyone else come across that? There was a programme on radio recently with Ian Macmillan who's from Barnsley, it was about whereabouts in South Yorkshire the word 'ouse changed from an ow sound to a ar sound (I bet it won't let me type the word) and he said he lived midway between the Dee-Dars of Sheffield and the area where they'd say "'ave go'a go 'a Bra'fort"

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Mon 22 Apr, 2013 8:16 pm

jonleeds wrote: I dunno, probably to folk from the south one northerner sounds much like another? It's a common misconception (and / or stereotype). You've only got to watch TV to see that any accent north of Derby is suitable for "generic northerner" regardless of where they're meant to hail from. Emmerdale (which has no excuses and should know better) is one of the worst culprits for this with accents raging from Burnley to Tyneside apparently resident in the Yorkshire Dales.Of course the main problem with mispronouncing words with long aaaa's is that you can end up sounding like Craig Revel Horwood, daaaaaaaarling! And people might come to the conclusion that you're from Chapel Allerton...

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 22 Apr, 2013 8:56 pm

It's probably my working class upbringing thing rather than a regional thing but I drop my aitches and it's very hard not to do so. As a result for example I say 'airwood' and not what is said to be the correct way of 'Harwood' (not Harewood as in the animal) though that is definitely a class thing I think!Funny that the letter h is spelt aitch!

vbporscha · Post by **vbporscha** » Mon 22 Apr, 2013 9:09 pm

majorhoundii wrote: vbporscha wrote: It's plaster - faster for me, but I grew up in South Yorkshire from age 6 to 18 so I did pick up a lot of the flat vowels! I have noticed a lot of people from Leeds and Huddersfield seem to pronounce "curry" like "cerry" - anyone else come across that? There was a programme on radio recently with Ian Macmillan who's from Barnsley, it was about whereabouts in South Yorkshire the word 'ouse changed from an ow sound to a ar sound (I bet it won't let me type the word) and he said he lived midway between the Dee-Dars of Sheffield and the area where they'd say "'ave go'a go 'a Bra'fort" Ah the Dee Dahs of Sheffield, that particular accent seems to start around Silkstone Common and head south to Sheffield!My Mum is from South West Ireland and my Dad from Surrey, We moved to Penistone in 1989. I might have written this before but my Dad was completely baffled at first by men calling him "luv" and "duck". I didn't understand what pop was when asked if I wanted some by Dad's work colleague's wife and my Mum and Dad actually laughed for hours when he came home from helping out a neighbour and had been given a chip buttie for lunch - I could hear the uproarious laughter going "tell me again, what did you do?" "I had to *laugh laugh laugh* pick out the chips and eat them before trhe bread!" They still laugh about it now - sorry I've gone a little off topic there... p.s. I only tried a chip buttie myself for the first time this year, I found it a bit odd to be honest. My sister happens to be addicted to "chip naans" which she has discovered in Manchester :S

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 22 Apr, 2013 9:19 pm

Mmmmm, a chip buttie (sarnie) with warm chips that are melting the margarine (butter too expensive). Yummy.

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Tue 23 Apr, 2013 1:04 am

Leodian wrote: It's probably my working class upbringing thing rather than a regional thing but I drop my aitches and it's very hard not to do so. As a result for example I say 'airwood' and not what is said to be the correct way of 'Harwood' (not Harewood as in the animal) though that is definitely a class thing I think!Funny that the letter h is spelt aitch! I may be wrong on this Leodian but I believe the village is Harewood but the residents of the house are the Harwoods. Does anyone know for definite if this is so?