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27-08-2008, 17:22
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Is the Accy accent changing?
Alright, I admit I am 20 years out date (been living in the USA), but I'm always suprised at the creepring Americana I alsways run across when I'm back in England (or on these boards for that matter).
I don't remember people commonly using the words 20+ years ago guy - meaning bloke or chap gas - meaning petrol "like" - as a pause in sentences (he was, like, really cool) cool - meaning great or wonderful I am imagining things? Drew |
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27-08-2008, 17:26
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Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
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27-08-2008, 17:41
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Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
its all to do with the popularity of american shows
most notably friends. thats been one of the biggest influences all across the world - u can pick up alot of the words and mannerisms from people which were featured on the show could you BE any more boring? i dunno about gas though. i've never heard ppl sayin that. alot of the humour on tv's now is very americanised.
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27-08-2008, 17:44
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Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
Just because the words have changed doesn't mean the accent has.
I was near Lancaster a few weeks ago and started talking to a chap who was doing some filming - he listened to me for a few minutes and then said 'Gt Harwood?' - I said, 'not far off, how can you tell' - he said 'park' - it was the way I said it. |
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27-08-2008, 17:50
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Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
Not heard anyone calling petrol “gas” around here as yet
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27-08-2008, 17:51
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Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
The Accy accent is definitely changing, innit.
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27-08-2008, 17:51
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Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
don't think accent is changing, more words that people pick up from wherever, but i'm still as broad as i always was.
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27-08-2008, 17:57
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Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
The Accy accent definitely has more of a Polish twang to it these days.
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27-08-2008, 17:59
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Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
Feel personally that the accent has a more definitive asian/traveller/east european lilt to it.A lot of the time i think we don't speak accringtonian anymore.I know sometimes i don't type in it.
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27-08-2008, 18:05
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27-08-2008, 18:57
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27-08-2008, 19:16
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Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
Just as people mistake accent for dialect, the originator of this thread is mistaking the content of speech for accent. Several of those posting have said this . I agree too that a good test is to listen how we say' car park'.
We've getten culture - wi' a capital 'k'. Ah know - Ah wer born an'bred in Accrington . You can't BUY class. |
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27-08-2008, 19:35
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Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
I was talking to a professor of linguistics one night in the college bar at uni and he knew quite a bit about the lancashire accent and how it differs from town to town and he was fascinated by my accent and was interested by the differences.
For example, the O in town, down, frown is pronounced differently in ossy/accy to darwen. My friends from Darwen used to laugh at me for it all the time (til I corrected myself!) I think the accent in accy is changing a bit. My little sister has an accent that I can't even copy, though this may be due to my own accent changing since moving away to uni and being around so many different people. I still hear people saying the usual accy things though like neht, reyt, tehn when I am at home, so I think it is the same but it may be getting a bit milder. The words we use have changed (though I too have never heard anyone say gas for fuel) but that is to be expected as we become more influenced by TV and the internet and such. |
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27-08-2008, 19:38
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Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
The only difference I can see between "gas" and "petrol" is that gas is a helluva lot cheaper
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27-08-2008, 20:20
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Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
the accent isnt changing its just peoples inability to speak english thats the problem
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