Going nothern around notherners

when I lived in the US I certainly used some different phrases/words and ways of communicating in order to be readily understood and just through hearing them day in day out. My accent didn't change to sound like the Dukes of Hazard though.
 
It's really weird at uni (Leeds), hear loadsa Southeners saying 'baaaath' and 'graaasss'. Personally, no, never, eurgh :P
 
Whenever my mum's family come to see us or vice versa my mum goes all yorkshire-ish (grew up near Scarborough)

My sister's boyfriend is from Castleford area originally so she has started talking like him whenever he's around.

I used to live in Hartlepool so grew up talking like that, only to move to the Midlands and lose my accent, then move back to North Yorkshire and go to uni in Middlesbrough so I have a north-east accent (from being in boro, and going back to Hartlepool to see old mates) crossed with a North Yorkshire accent (from living here, and my best mate is from Hull, unfortunately, so I've picked up stuff from him). But have found myself dropping in London phrases as my gf and her family live in North London...I have no idea what I sound like tbh.

But at least I'm proper northern originally, not like these South Yorkshire lot who reckon they're northern ;)
 
When I was a kid, 70's, I remember my mum's accent changing drastically whenever she spoke to her sister's up in Middlesbrough (we lived down south).

She always had an accent, compared to my normal accent, but it got thicker at those times.

Bloody northerners.
 
ElliorR said:
When I was a kid, 70's, I remember my mum's accent changing drastically whenever she spoke to her sister's up in Middlesbrough (we lived down south).

She always had an accent, compared to my normal accent, but it got thicker at those times.

Bloody northerners.
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Aww! Poor southern jessie me 'art bleeds for ya!
 
Scottish people think I sound very English.
English people think I sound very Scottish.
Everyone else in the World thinks that I'm Australian.

But no, I don't 'tailor' my accent to fit those around me.
 
Gilly said:
That aint northern, tis foreign.
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Remember; England are not in the world cup anymore so we are all back to being British again.

It's simple; A 'Northern' accent is really a southern accent. A real northern accent is a cheuchter accent.
 
Nix said:
Nope, even when I lived up't north I didn't indulge in their silly colloquialisms.

'Nowt' is a horrible word.
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is it nowt



i only went 40 miles north to newcastle for uni and didnt even know many geordies there as everyone was from all over , but when i got home even randomers where asking me if i was a Geordie :( g
 
Proper northern is awesome. I love coming back up North and hearing it all time, you forget how good it sounds.

Slack-jawed chav scum northern is far worse than southern fairy chav though.
 
Well around here we don't say "t'" but we do have a little pause where "to the" should be.

Like HeX says, there's no "Am off t' pub", but we do say "Am off ' pub", usually with a little sideways nod in the general direction of the door, or pub or whatever :p
 
No matter what a northerner says, all I can hear is "Give me (weird pause sounding like a symptom of a degenerative bronchial / lung disease, probably from all the smog and poor diet) welfare munneh"
 
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