Accents and Pronounciations

J-2739 · 9 Feb 2017

Wishing you all a Happy 9th of February!

What reigonal accent do you speak?

Also, how do you also pronounce your words, like for example, 'Bath' or 'Baath', 'Scone' and 'Scon' or 'Nike' and 'Nik-e'?

Just another of my threads created out of curiousity.

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DaleCooper · 9 Feb 2017

J-2739 said:
Wishing you all a Happy 9th of February!

What reigonal accent do you speak?

Also, how do you also pronounce your words, like for example, 'Bath' or 'Baath', 'Scone' and 'Scon' or 'Nike' and 'Nik-e'?

Just another of my threads created out of curiousity.

I don't have an accent and I pronounce everything correctly. I'll bet I'm not the only one.

Domh245 · 9 Feb 2017

DaleCooper said:
I don't have an accent and I pronounce everything correctly. I'll bet I'm not the only one.

Quite. Only a fool would pronounce scone as anything other than scone, and bath as anything other than bath, etc.

:lol:

hexagon789 · 9 Feb 2017

I've often been told I have a peculiar accent, at times quite Scottish at others quite English. On the whole I would be inclined to describe my accent as a sort of Scottish received pronunciation. I use most British Standard English pronunciations but without the broad A of most southern English accents, I say bahth rather than baath for instance, but with a slight Glasgow accent. In general I use some very old fashioned pronunciations it would seem. At least my friends seem to think so. I say skone (rhymes with gone) rather than shown (rhymes with own). I also say kill-uh-meter rather than the American kill-om-itur, syoot for suit, guh-lant for gallant, ett for ate, tyooz-dee for Tuesday, ayshuh for Asia. And yes I'll admit it, on occasion I will pronounce actual as ak-tyoo-uhl rather than the more common ak-chool. Is tgat really old fashioned, or is it just them?

me123 · 10 Feb 2017

I've got a soft Glaswegian accent. So soft that many Glaswegians think I'm from the Highlands (although outwith Glasgow, I'm very easily identified as Weegie). I pronounce words accordingly (won't go through a whole list, but "Scone" definitely rhymes with "Gone").

I love accents! The world would be so dull if everyone spoke in RP.

JBuchananGB · 10 Feb 2017

London accent. Scone rhymes with shown, there is an r in bath, park my car in a garridge. Also catch my train at a railway station, not a train station. Nothing to do with pronunciation but this is railway forum.

Lad Brookes · 10 Feb 2017

Jbuchanangb said:
London accent. Scone rhymes with shown, there is an r in bath, park my car in a garridge. Also catch my train at a railway station, not a train station. Nothing to do with pronunciation but this is railway forum.

And an 'f'.

ATW Alex 101 · 10 Feb 2017

Woolybak/East-mids variety for me :lol:

and depends on the setting. At work I'm quite scouse around family and friends I'm quite East-Mids.

alxndr · 10 Feb 2017

Neutral, but with the very occasional hint of Suffolk. I wish I had more of the accent, it's a bit of a dying thing. Even my partner is loosing hers though, unless she's recently had a trip back, and she comes from a proper Suffolk family.

theblackwatch · 10 Feb 2017

ATW Alex 101 said:
Woolybak/East-mids variety for me and depends on the setting. At work I'm quite scouse around family and friends I'm quite East-Mids.

Yours is scouse!

martin2345uk · 10 Feb 2017

I've always thought I had a very neutral southern accent but since starting my new job in Macclesfield I'm getting some stick for things like the fact that I pronounce words like "Paul", "Pull" and "Pool" exactly the same as each other. I've never given it any thought previously!

steamybrian · 10 Feb 2017

South Londoner....

As a baby I lived in Thornton Heath (locals pronounce it as "Fort Neath")

fowler9 · 10 Feb 2017

Mine is scouse but after 4 years at Uni in Bradford and 5 years going out with a girl from Warrington I have picked a few bits and bobs from other accents.

DaleCooper · 10 Feb 2017

Due to a quirk of the English language there is one word everyone, whatever their accent, pronounces incorrectly.

AlterEgo · 10 Feb 2017

I am probably closest to RP, though I have a very neutral accent with a slight impediment.

My mother is a Geordie and my father is a Derry man so with those influences I've fallen exactly in the middle of the accent scale with almost no accent at all.

Lad Brookes · 10 Feb 2017

steamybrian said:
South Londoner....

As a baby I lived in Thornton Heath (locals pronounce it as "Fort Neath")

I always pronounced it Fort Neef- but then I'm a northerner- from Balham!

james60059 · 10 Feb 2017

I don't know whether it's a Leicestershire thing or just located to Hinckley/Barwell/Earl Shilton but for instance:

Hinckley pronounced Hink-leh
Cosby - Cos-beh
Sileby - Sile-beh
Narborough - Nar-bra
Enderby - Ender-beh

:lol:

Of note I also have a slight Irish twang at times with my Dad being Irish.

321446 · 10 Feb 2017

Eye-m from Essix, in case yu kooddnt tell.

Dijy Doris az sinz been re-edjumakated, she still sez it posh but she use ta say "Hetfield Peverrillllll" wen awl us from rand ere no itz 'atfild Pevrll. Innit.

Class172 · 10 Feb 2017

james60059 said:
I don't know whether it's a Leicestershire thing or just located to Hinckley/Barwell/Earl Shilton but for instance:

Hinckley pronounced Hink-leh
Cosby - Cos-beh
Sileby - Sile-beh
Narborough - Nar-bra
Enderby - Ender-beh

That's definitely a trait in people I know from Leicestershire.

Cowley · 10 Feb 2017

DaleCooper said:
Due to a quirk of the English language there is one word everyone, whatever their accent, pronounces incorrectly.

Well what is it Dale? WHAT IS IT!?

I'm a strange mixture of Devon (tiz a bit dimpsy tonight innim?), Nottingham from Mums side and I suppose London from Dads side. Been yere since I was seven though so pretty Deb'n I spose.

DaleCooper · 11 Feb 2017

Cowley said:
Well what is it Dale? WHAT IS IT!?

Incorrectly

Seacook · 11 Feb 2017

I have a Black Country accent. It grows broader when I am talking to members of my family. Short a is used in words like bath and path. I use the older pronunciation for forehead ('forrid') rather than the pronunciation based on the written form. Garage rhymes with porridge. I use a terminal rising intonation for questions but not for statements. Birmingham is pronounced Brummagem. A terminal G is normally sounded - fishing, not fishin'. My use of glottal stops is inconsistent: a bo'le of milk but a fine kettle of fish.

Cowley · 11 Feb 2017

DaleCooper said:
Incorrectly

Of course.

GusB · 11 Feb 2017

I think I would probably describe my accent as "confused Scottish"! My parents are from the Glasgow area, and while I have never lived there it has clearly had an influence on my own accent. When I visit Glasgow, or spend even a small amount of time conversing with anyone from there I often find the inner Weegie sneaking out.

I've lived in Moray for most of my life and I spent a dozen years or so in Aberdeen, so there's definitely some north east influence there. Aberdeen itself and Aberdeenshire have distinctly different dialects. As you head west towards Elgin and Forres, there appears to be a distinctly Highland note.

Lankyline · 11 Feb 2017

This is reet gradely stuff on 'ere

507021 · 11 Feb 2017

Considering I was born in Liverpool, I don't think I really have much of a local accent unless I say certain things.

fowler9 · 11 Feb 2017

I only discovered I used Glottal Stops and Phrasal Verbs when a Spanish couple living in Liverpool asked me how I learned them and I had to ask what they were! Ha ha.

Crossover · 12 Feb 2017

My accent is very much Yorkshire. The language I speak is also Yorkshire :P

prod_pep · 12 Feb 2017

Although born and raised in Liverpool, my accent isn't particularly scouse. I was brought up in a 'posh' area of town (according to others) and most of my family are Welsh, so that plays a part.

Like Hexagon789 above, I'm also quite traditional with pronunciations. 'Harassment' is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable and 'hurricane' is roughly 'hurri-kuhn'. 'Either' is always 'eye-ther' regardless of context and I agree that 'kilometre' should be 'kill-uh-metre' as it is a measurement. 'Scone' rhymes with 'gone', there is a short 'a' in 'bath', 'put' and 'putt' sound alike and it's definitely 'Nik-ee'.

fowler9 · 13 Feb 2017

How do you folks pronounce Adidas? Unless Adolf Dassler pronounced the shortened version of his first his first name Adee then surely it should be Adidas and not Adeedas. In Liverpool people seem to pronounce it both ways.

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