The Strange Way we Talk

[biofichompinc]

majorhoundii wrote: I'd say plaster - short a but head master - long a but pronouncing it as two words. But then I'm form Morley so what do I know? Morleans do sound different ....... Born in Morley and lived in the town most of my life but unlike the Major I would pronounce BOTH words with multiple letter A's.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

[Leodian]

salt 'n pepper wrote: majorhoundii wrote: I'd say plaster - short a but head master - long a but pronouncing it as two words. But then I'm form Morley so what do I know? Morleans do sound different ....... Born in Morley and lived in the town most of my life but unlike the Major I would pronounce BOTH words with multiple letter A's.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 That made me . It also reminded me of the Goons (Spike Milligan I think) funny that went something like:-You're a spy.No I'm not, I'm a shepherd.Ah, a shepherd's spy.It sounded funnier to hear it.

[majorhoundii]

salt 'n pepper wrote: majorhoundii wrote: I'd say plaster - short a but head master - long a but pronouncing it as two words. But then I'm form Morley so what do I know? Morleans do sound different ....... Born in Morley and lived in the town most of my life but unlike the Major I would pronounce BOTH words with multiple letter A's.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 I certainly wouldn't say plaasterer. I don't think I'd say plaster either, more likely Elastoplast

[Jogon]

1- Edmastah2-Eelastaplast

[Johnny39]

As someone who was dragged up in "Air-ills" I tend to use the word "doo-er" for door instead of "dore". Still it's too late to change "now", or should that be "noo"?

[majorhoundii]

Johnny39 wrote: As someone who was dragged up in "Air-ills" I tend to use the word "doo-er" for door instead of "dore". Still it's too late to change "now", or should that be "noo"? Put t'wood i't'oil - close the door (doo-er)

[jonleeds]

My old man says something I've never been able to decipher, it sounds something like this: "its no w'harner me ar-se"..!! ..??? I dont know if he is saying "its no more worn than my ar-se" or what...? But I remember when we was nippers living in Morley even in the 70's and 80s we all had pretty broad accents and would say stuff like "is tha ba'hn t' t'shop" or "are thar laikin' out" and all manner of strange phrases that we'd picked up. I think as we grow up much of our speech pattern gets subconsciously 'cleaned up'. A few years ago I overheard one of my friends from university saying to another person from the south that she thought I sounded like 'Simon Armitage' (the poet, who is actually from Huddersfield), I dunno, probably to folk from the south one northerner sounds much like another?    

[zip55]

Geordie-exile wrote: Headmaaarster with a long abutPlaster with a short aDragged up in Wood'ouse and Burmantofts, also went to Lawnswood.How does that fit with the theory? Same pronunciation here, and I grew up in Oakwood and went to Foxwood.

[Croggy1]

Same here: I'd say Head-Marster (or actually I'd refer to them as a Head Teacher, lol) but I'll use a plaster with the short 'a' sound.I'm east Leeds, and went to Mount St Mary's College.I saw this last night and asked my daughter this morning and she said both with the short vowel sound. Not sure what that shows.

[vbporscha]

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?