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Anyone else have this, as soon as I hang around with anyone with a northern accent I find myself saying nothern things like nowt, "t" instead of the, me instead of my, and just generally going a bit northern.
I didn't even notice this until someone pointed it out, does anyone else do it?
 
Nope, even when I lived up't north I didn't indulge in their silly colloquialisms.

'Nowt' is a horrible word.
 
Yeah but only when I'm deliberately taking the wee. My yorkshire mate says my yorkshire accent is dead good.
 
I get around said:
Anyone else have this, as soon as I hang around with anyone with a northern accent I find myself saying nothern things like nowt, "t" instead of the, me instead of my, and just generally going a bit northern.
I didn't even notice this until someone pointed it out, does anyone else do it?
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They don't talk like that in Inverness!!!! :p

I do speak with a slight Glaswegain accent when I go to Glasgow though. Probably cause my mother is from there.

One of my cousins would change her accent completly wherever she moved to. I found it very weird.
 
This is why the North-South divide should be strictly policed - language pollution is a serious threat.
 
Although I have dropped much of my Yorkshire accent, if I go and spend a weekend with my mates in West Yorkshire, I find that I drop straight back into it and I still have the accent when I get home.
 
I go geordie around geordies, grew up around them so it slips out, usually when I'm on the phone to my parents :D
 
A family member is Geordie and whenever he is around I find myself ended sentences with the word "like", like.

Otherwise the only other one I do is in agreement add the word "ey" at the end of sentences, so if someone says "that's nice" i'll respond "yeah it's good ey?". Comes from all the Kiwis round here.
 
There is no 't'. It's a myth.

No one says:

"Am off t'pub"

What we actually say is:

"Am off pub"


We got rid of the t' ages ago because it takes effort, is unneeded, and wastes time, it's only ever used by people taking the Michael and southerners trying to sound Northern.

Us northerners like to reduce our language to the bare minimum possible, often a grunt is all that is needed, this is the perfection we strive for.

Mainly because us lot up North graft hard for a living, and we don't have time for poncey long winded southern talk.

;)

Also it's Bath, not Barth.

That is all.
 
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