Going nothern around notherners

[Von Smallhausen]

North east people say ' munnee ' and not ' munneh. '

Tsk tsk.

 

[Scuzi]

What a shockingly generalising comment and I hope an apology is forthcoming.

Haha! That was worded very southerly.

You don't know me very well. Or maybe you do!

 

[Dinomania]

Once went out with a West Yorkshireman - never really picked much up.

My boyfriend now is Northern and caught himself saying 'Barth' the other day (to indicate the place, I think) - his reaction was good - my Queen's English is winning, muahahahaha.

I do find from several years of gently mocking the Bristol accent, I have actually picked some of it up, though. Eeek.

 

[Greenlizard0]

Same, and with Scouse. Good god la..

 

[Von Smallhausen]

My boyfriend now is Northern and caught himself saying 'Barth' the other day (to indicate the place, I think) - his reaction was good - my Queen's English is winning, muahahahaha.

Just to clarify, do you instruct your butler to release the hounds or haahnds when a member of the working class walks up the drive ?

 

[Mark A]

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.

Indeed. I tend to just point in the general direction of the pub to inform others where I am going.

My uncle is from Essex and has come to live up here and is always taking the ****. Every time I see him he starts up the Pants/Trousers debate .

 

[GreatAuk]

I find I begin to sound like whoever I'm talking to, and after a few days talking to a posh Southern person, I sound rather different to how I do in Bradford! (where, I actually don't have much of a Northern accent because most of the people I know don't).

 

[Stewy]

You hear southerners saying stuff in a southern accent? That's the opposite of this thread...

Sorry I should have spelt it phonetically. Basically Southeners saying shortned northern vowels. Thank god my degree isn't in Linguistics...

 

[Frapple]

Also it's Bath, not Barth.

This.

A thousand times this.

 

[Gothic Draconia]

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.

I use words like that but being from Derby and living in the real north (Manchester), people look at me like i'm an alien lol.

 

[Stewy]

This.

A thousand times this.

Go away northerners

 

[Pestilence]

This.

A thousand times this.

It's even worse when they write it like that.

And not just "Barth", but "Farther" (Father), "Carnt" (Can't) and other sub-phonetic abominations.

 

[Dinomania]

Just to clarify, do you instruct your butler to release the hounds or haahnds when a member of the working class walks up the drive ?

Teehee

I'm only lower-middle-class (if that) darling, I sometimes call a sofa a 'settee' and like it to match my curtains...

 

[Stewy]

It's even worse when they write it like that.

And not just "Barth", but "Farther" (Father), "Carnt" (Can't) and other sub-phonetic abominations.

Have you really ever met anyone that writes like that though? Me thinks not...

 

[eddiemcgarrigle]

Since so many of you have derided the Scottish issue of independence and stated your want of a United Kingdom, aren't Northeners actually Midlanders in your eyes?

 

[Scythe]

yup

oh wait , I am Northern !

Depends where you class north at for me, where's the border line?!

 

[Stewy]

Watford is my borderline, north of that is wild country

 

[Tombo]

Have you really ever met anyone that writes like that though? Me thinks not...

I know someone who uses carnt

 

[Stewy]

I know someone who uses carnt

I just died inside, my faith of humanity lessened

 

[Ghosteh]

My scouse accent comes out more when I'm around scousers, or even on the phone to family at home.