Posted by Quintal on August 21, 2007, at 21:27:26
In reply to Re: Accent vs Dialect/Sen vs Sell, posted by Meri-Tuuli on August 20, 2007, at 14:03:57
>Now then, we say 'sen' like you say 'sell' ? Or do ya t'mean 'sell' proper like?
Whee aye, man! Ah's just gunna finish this post then al' get me sell up't wooden hill and te bed, like.
>Do you know, I got introduced to 'sen' whilst on a school trip when I was 17? You would have thought that living where I did I'd have come across it sooner. But no. I'm abit miffed I don't have a nice proper accent!
I'm still discovering new words and expressions too! Jealous is a recent one. "Ah cud ah jealoused that tha knarrs/I could have guess that you know/I thought as much etc" would be one example. "Heisther" is another. I have no idea what it actually means, or any clue to its origins, but I've noticed my dad will use this word in exclamation, "Heisther that, yer bugger yer!/My goodness, look at that, dear sir!". Communication with the village elders involves a certain amount of interpretation and guesswork.
>I read up about Yorkshire accents on wiki and i didn't even realise that we say 'I aren't feeling too well' when it should be 'I'm not feeling too well' - there's the whole 'I aren't' instead of the 'I'm not'.
Whee ah disent knarr about that, like. Ah dinnert dee it me sell, like, but me fatther dis on many an occasion.
>Do you speak Machum or Georgie? We used to go 'why and aye' for some reason in a georgie accent at school. We all thought you were supercool because you had Biker Grove.
I speak Mackem, well I have the accent but I don't speak the dialect. My mother wouldn't allow it. My aunt moved from here to Bradford when she was 19 and now has a broad Yorkshire accent. My uncle always teases me that I have a Geordie accent, and it used to annoy me because we don't think of 'oursells' as being Geordies. I didn't know what we actually were until a few months ago when I saw that article on Wiki. There aren't really any true Mackem videos on YouTube, the Yorkshire Ripper hoax is the nearest, but even that sounds a bit Geordie to my ears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRRp77pk09M
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