Moving away and how it's changed your speech.

Having lived in Liverpool, Oxford, Manchester, Hull, Edinburgh and Glasgow I can safely say I don't have an accent. Or rather I have several - it just depends who I am talking too.

Most recently people think I have an Irish accent which I can only assume comes from having lived with 2 lads from Ireland for a few years. The only accent I cannot do is Welsh, which is ironic really given that is where my whole family are from...

/Salsa
 
LizardKing said:
Its took 10 years of living away from t'up north to retrain my brain into saying lunch/dinner.
Dont half confuse my daughter who's lived here all her life when it slips into dinner/tea mind!
Then my Dad comes along and i confuse him by asking what he wants for dinner who then explains he had a butty on the way down :o

Ask for chips and gravy round here and its as if you just asked them curl one out over the chips.



Your doing well if half of anyone from anywhere other than Burnley can understand you :p I'm from Accy and find it almost another language!
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my Dad is from Accy :)
 
Been living in Wiltshire for nearly 8 years now after moving from God's Country (The Home Counties :D). Sometimes I catch myself with certain words having a Wiltshire twang to them.
 
When I joined the Navy I picked up a cross between a geordie & scouse accent that sat on top of my Yorkshire accent, to the great amusement of my mates back home.
 
Hedge said:
I have lived outside of the North for a while now and although I try my best to stay true to myself and hold my accent, I now find myself saying Lunch instead of Dinner.

I feel like I've let myself down :D.

So, To the people who have moved away from their hometown, what changes have you experienced? Do people notice?
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But lunch isn't dinner if it's sandwiches. Lunch is always just lunch.

Your evening meal is supper, regardless of whether that's sandwiches or cooked stuff.

Breakfast, lunch, supper.

So you're still doing it wrong :p
 
To help all those who have difficulty with lunch, dinner and tea.

Dinner is the largest meal of the day. Lunch then Dinner or Dinner then Tea.
 
I can't stick all that acting like you don't understand what people are talking about just because they say lunch instead of dinner (or vice versa) or not understanding at all what a cob/barm/bap, etc is.

It's just being awkward for the sake of being awkward. It's pretty obvious what people mean. It's ok to make a bit of a joke of it I reckon ("you mean a barm don't you") but to just play dumb and question what they mean isn't acceptable.

However, "lolly ice" or "home and bargains" as spoken by the Scouse lot isn't acceptable at all.
 
kinobestew123 said:
I can't stick all that acting like you don't understand what people are talking about just because they say lunch instead of dinner (or vice versa) or not understanding at all what a cob/barm/bap, etc is.

It's just being awkward for the sake of being awkward. It's pretty obvious what people mean. It's ok to make a bit of a joke of it I reckon ("you mean a barm don't you") but to just play dumb and question what they mean isn't acceptable.

However, "lolly ice" or "home and bargains" as spoken by the Scouse lot isn't acceptable at all.
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I honestly, and not being awkward here, don't understand half of what you just said lol

Lunch/Dinner/Tea/Supper - fine, I get those and won't pick people out on them unless messing about.

Cob - as in corn on the cob? Otherwise, no idea

Barm - no idea

Bap - like a bread roll, I still refer to bigger/softer cloud-like rolls as baps

No idea what you're talking about when you say lolly ice and home and bargains either :p
 
Craig321 said:
I honestly, and not being awkward here, don't understand half of what you just said lol

Lunch/Dinner/Tea/Supper - fine, I get those and won't pick people out on them unless messing about.

Cob - as in corn on the cob? Otherwise, no idea

Barm - no idea

Bap - like a bread roll, I still refer to bigger/softer cloud-like rolls as baps

No idea what you're talking about when you say lolly ice and home and bargains either :p
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Haha. So you must have never been involved in a cob/barm/bap/muffin/bread roll discussion before? It seems to come up over and over again.

Usually the discussion will be in context too. For example, if someone comes into a chip shop and asks for a chip cob, it's quite obvious that they're after chips on a "cloud like roll" rather than somehow mushing chips into a corn on the cob. Or if they ask for a chip muffin, they clearly aren't after chips placed into a choc chip sweet muffin!

Same as with lunch and dinner, if at 12.30pm somebody at work says they're going for their dinner. It's in no way acceptable to act like you have no clue what they mean because you think of it only as lunch.

The lolly ice is the Scouse way of saying ice lolly and home and bargains is their mispronunciation of Home Bargains, the cheap retail chain. Both not acceptable in my eyes. :p But even so, when they say it, I can work out what they mean.
 
Craig321 said:
Cob - as in corn on the cob? Otherwise, no idea
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cob1
kɒb/Submit
noun
1.
the central cylindrical woody part of the maize ear to which the grains are attached.
2.
BRITISH
a round loaf of bread.
"a round granary cob"

Baps are breasts. "Get your baps out luv" :p
 
I was born in Yorkshire and moved down south at 11. Had a strong accent when I first came down but now you cant tell....unless I speak to a fellow northener, then it all comes out! :D
 
I've lived in Somerset my entire life bar a few years in Portsmouth, my old man is from Stoke and my Mum from Birmingham.
I sound fairly neutral most of the time until my inner Wurzel slips out and I also have some odd pronunciations for things too. Crumpets = Pikelets for example. Oh and I love Oatcakes but people here think I'm a weirdo.
 
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