Going nothern around notherners

Skillmister · 28 Jun 2010 at 09:48

I found myself talking in a bad irish accent whenever my old PE teacher spoke. He didnt like me.

Skidder · 28 Jun 2010 at 09:54

Certainly not. Should I ever need directions to a mine or a **** fight I will ask for them in the Queen's English.

wordy · 28 Jun 2010 at 10:09

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?

Don't worry, the fact that you drink shandy will show everyone where you're really from.

Throrik · 28 Jun 2010 at 10:16

Gonna do a scouse accent if I have to go and sign on for JSA soon, because they'll know it's normal then.

Freefaller · 28 Jun 2010 at 10:55

Nope - if anything I think I sound even more like I speak with Received Pronounciation!!

phil675 · 28 Jun 2010 at 11:10

My girlfriend started doing this after making a new friend at work. Very grating.

willhub · 28 Jun 2010 at 11:13

Instead of saying "to the" I usually say t. But then again I am from Yorkshire, near Goole.

HeX · 28 Jun 2010 at 11:23

Goole, ah I remember days I spent round Goole.

Goin' 'big Tesco's for some grub after a hard day re-labelling paint at Duluxe warehouse.

Then catchin' train home to Thorne.

4T5 · 28 Jun 2010 at 11:23

I've been in the Midlands over 17 years now & still have my accent although I do use local words like Jitty,Cob,Tuther & nowt.
I did think a while back I'd lost my accent but people I meet tell me otherwise.

semi-pro waster · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:15

HeX said:
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.

So essentially you're saying you want Newspeak? I never thought the threat of an authoritarian future would come from Yorkshire. :eek:

Being from properly up North (i.e. Scotland) I don't make any specific effort to pick up the idioms of Southerners although I am conscious not to use some of the phrases I might use with my mates at home since they'd fail to be understood. However I have been told that my accent is quite hard to place beyond being Scottish so maybe I pick up more of the local dialect than I intend.

decmatt · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:18

I do... Oh wait it's my accent.

Gilly · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:26

weescott said:
They don't talk like that in Inverness!!!!

That aint northern, tis foreign.

valerian · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:30

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?

isnt northern relative to where you live, example in staffordshire, half the country is 'northerners'
and i suspect the 'northerners' have just as much issue with the 'southerners'
i do for a start

meghatronic · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:31

No. I would rather not.

Gilly · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:32

valerian said:
isnt northern relative to where you live

Nope. Northern is Sheffield to just short of Middlesbrough, anything outside that is either too far south, too far west or too far north. Further up is north east, further west is north west, further south is south (excepting the midlands, which is still southern, but not even the southerners want it).

Jonny69 · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:33

Probably no different to people sounding and acting all American when they have been around Americans.

I'm sorry old chap, I think you meant 'maths' didn't you?

Tefal · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:33

yup when i was in manc i developed a very thick northern accent too

paradigm · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:36

I don't speak like that and I AM northern.

That's not northern, its strictly Yorkshireish.

4T5 · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:46

Gilly said:
(excepting the midlands, which is still southern, but not even the southerners want it).

When I go back down South I am a Northerner but in the Midlands I am a Cockney, Either way I am ******.

I get around · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:57

valerian said:
isnt northern relative to where you live, example in staffordshire, half the country is 'northerners'
and i suspect the 'northerners' have just as much issue with the 'southerners'
i do for a start

Northerner = resides in north england
Midlander = Middle england
Southerner = southern england

Or thats the way I see it anyway, I've never noticed a northerner get a west country accent around me or anything like that.

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