The Strange Way we Talk

[jdbythesea]

Johnny39 wrote: 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? Johnny, I was taught that Lord Harwood of Harewood was the correct form of address. (Alternatively, just call him David Lascelles!).    

[BarFly]

Surely it's just "m'lud"?

[Jogon]

BarflyIf, like me, you're a local Vassal with sworn allegiance, best doff yer cap and greet as "my Liege", in a Brackenwood Accent.I'd get off the pavement too.Somewhere on here or elsewhere there's a lovely account of how Lord Harewood used to pop into Sutcliffes on Queen Vic Street for a new Cricket Bat.Also that he and Jack Charlton were good friends.

[BarFly]

Thank you, I shall remember the correct form of address should I ever meet the gentleman.

[simong]

majorhoundii wrote: 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" I grew up in Doncaster but because of the amount of immigration into the town to the various industries - Scots to steel and mining, Nottingham miners to mining, wholesale rural migration from Lincolnshire and north Nottinghamshire, the local accent is different again to Sheffield and Barnsley. When I hear a Sheffield accent these days you realise that it has a lot more in common with the Midlands than Yorkshire.

[Johnny39]

jdbythesea wrote: Johnny39 wrote: 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? Johnny, I was taught that Lord Harwood of Harewood was the correct form of address. (Alternatively, just call him David Lascelles!).     Thanks for that jdbythesea. I'll remember what you said the next time I see him.

[Jogon]

..."That's Councillor Duxbury, lad.      You wouldn't call Lord Harewood mister"... etc.

[jonleeds]

Another one is how people say 'garage'. I've always said it as "garridge", and I would imagine a lot of other folk in Leeds say it the same - as opposed to "gar-ah'ge". Plus the word 'towel' - I think most people in the north say "towl" whereas posh folks would say "tow-el".

[Si]

I was reminded today of something that we say that is unusual (to outsiders, any road.)Instead of saying, "I'm working nine til five," we say, "I'm working nine while five."Or is that just me?

[BarFly]

I tend to swap between garridge and gahrage and, to some extent, towl and towell depending on the company I'm in. If I'm talking to forriners (those from outside Yorkshire) I sometimes revert to the posher forms.Si, I think using while like that is fairly common, I've certainly spoken to a lot of people who use it like that and do so myself sometimes.