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    I am just waiting to collect DS from school and I am bored! My mind started wondering (not many places for it to go up there ) but I got thinking about north and south accents!

    I am northern but live in Essex and I am constantly told it is B"AR"TH and P"AR"TH not b"A"th IYSWIM. That the A is pronounced ar.

    But sorry to say (southerners) us northerners are right! Say "stash"... EXACTLY... s-t-A-s-h... not s-t-AR-s-h!

    Ugh I need to get back to work, 3 weeks off and I am going dolally! lol

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    Its bAth

    but my OH says bOOk and i say luk

    he says cOOker and i say cukker

    we both say garidge

    he is a freak....he is from the potteries..........
    The bats have left the bell tower.....

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    Im from down suff, its baff

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    I'm from Kent and we say B-AR-TH
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    From down south and say baff lol

    Try scone and scon

    I say scone which if you follow the pattern is the correct way. When you add an e to the end of a word the first vOwel is supposed to make the sound of it's letter name

    Eg con/cone
    Ton/tone
    Wine/wine
    Din/ dine
    Dam/dame
    Dun/ dune

    Only exceptions I can think of are gone and done so I suppose scone could be an exception but I still think I'm right lOl

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    Well I grew up in B-AR-TH!!

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    Taught by my mother to say 'Barth' as a child, went to boarding school in North Yorkshire, have said 'Bath' ever since.

    TBH, either one is fine with me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jiorjiina View Post
    Taught by my mother to say 'Barth' as a child, went to boarding school in North Yorkshire, have said 'Bath' ever since.

    TBH, either one is fine with me.
    What boarding school did you go?

    And come one you northerners... I am getting out numbered here!

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    Quote Originally Posted by parsleypetal View Post
    Its bAth

    but my OH says bOOk and i say luk

    he says cOOker and i say cukker

    we both say garidge

    he is a freak....he is from the potteries..........:p


    Ha ha you sound like me and my hubby, he's from the Potteries too. Luckily both our children talk like me
    Does your hubby call a side plate a muffin by any chance? My fil does and the first time he asked for one I thought he wanted a cake

    Carol xx

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    I live a few miles from'Bath. Most people pronounce it 'Bath' not 'B Arth'. I'm Welsh so totally confuse people with my accent, LOL. They seem to think Im from Newcastle!! I keep hearing there's no R in Bath!!

    My children tell me all the time I'm talking 'wrong'. The favoured one they take the Michael out of me for is 'Ridiculous' and 'garage'. Apparently it's GarARge'. Whatever, I love different accents and at least I know what I'm talking about.

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    it's pronounced SH-OW-ER

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    Quote Originally Posted by charleyfarley View Post


    Ha ha you sound like me and my hubby, he's from the Potteries too. Luckily both our children talk like me
    Does your hubby call a side plate a muffin by any chance? My fil does and the first time he asked for one I thought he wanted a cake

    Carol xx
    oh yes....and every where we go he ALWAYS has to lift the crockery up to see if its still made in stoke....AND he says weird stuff like "ca thy kik a bow agin a wow an bost it?"......its all greek to me!

    we also have to support Stoke City chez parsleypetal........
    The bats have left the bell tower.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by parsleypetal View Post
    oh yes....and every where we go he ALWAYS has to lift the crockery up to see if its still made in stoke....AND he says weird stuff like "ca thy kik a bow agin a wow an bost it?"......its all greek to me!

    My hubby says that stupid saying Even our children correct him when he talks

    we also have to support Stoke City chez parsleypetal........


    Now that is just cruel

    Carol xx

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    I used to mind for children whose mum comes from Essex and when they went home saying 'plaster' not 'plarster' they got told off!

    They said 'but that's what Sarah says'... and I got told off

    The oldest is 18 now and not at all traumatised by her time with a northerner

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    There is no R in bath so why put one in !!! and what about umberella.
    ,southerners just cant say their "u's" properly they sat it like amberella and up is ap and under is ander....its an u not an a ..my mam who is from essex insists its carstle not castle and glarsses not glasses.....there is no r in any of them...im from up north not from ...ap nowf..you lot are down south .not dahn sarf
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    It's definitely bath. I'm also a northerner but now in Essex. DS used to say everything the way I do but now he's at nursery he's starting to say things in a southern way. It's funny because if he's just talking he'll say things like a southerner but if I ask him a question he replies like a northerner!. Hx

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    sorry, another southerner here!

    I can pronounce my 'u's very well thank you. I was born in Essex - near the Suffolk border, on the coast - a world away from what we called 'London Essex' like TOWIE - never spoken like that!!

    In Sussex now, and have been since the age of 17, 30 years this year People here thought I was posh when I came here to work

    I love local dialects That's what make Britain great
    Happy to be back with the Greenies

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    Quote Originally Posted by parsleypetal View Post
    Its bAth

    but my OH says bOOk and i say luk

    he says cOOker and i say cukker

    we both say garidge

    he is a freak....he is from the potteries..........:p
    Oy Parsley leave us Potters alone we are not freaks its the rest of you just dont understand the complexity of the potteries dialect

    However making you support Stoke is just wrong - Now we are vale through and through but not sure its a good thing to mention at the min
    When someone tells you nothing is impossible, tell them to go slam a revolving door

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    Quote Originally Posted by parsleypetal View Post
    Its bAth

    but my OH says bOOk and i say luk

    he says cOOker and i say cukker

    we both say garidge

    he is a freak....he is from the potteries..........
    Scuse me duck, not all people from the potteries are freaks, just the ones who support Joke city
    Last edited by nell57; 01-03-2012 at 07:55 PM.
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    Its BARRF, innit!
    Nope, I say barth, gararge, parth, scon, plarster, carstle and glarsses! I grew up in Hampshire, moved to Sussex were they thought I was a Londoner, and then moved to Surrey and apparently talk posher for it! As a child I loved it when my great auntie who lived in Burnley used to come to stay. I used to make her say "loooowk in the boooowk" !!! Aww, wish I could hear that now!

 

 
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