General Chat

Round where I live we call a wopse a jasper.

(wopse =wasp for those who don't speak Zummerzet).

"Where's he to?" means "Where is he?"

"If I'd a-know'd I 'ooden never a-went" means "Had I known I wouldn't have gone."

I hear quite a lot of dialect round here. I've been told I have a slight West Country accent when I meet friends from other places. My daughter in Yorkshire gets teased about hers. She gets quite broad Zummerzet when she has a couple of drinks! LOL

Sue
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WW ...wish I had seen that documentary

I too love programmes about the past and how things used to be, or at least the last 200 yrs.

weer asta bin sin ah saw thee?

on Ilkley Moor baht 'at

I doubt you would find many in Ilkley these days who talk like that.

Yes , Winterwitch , I saw those films and found them amazing. To think they were nearly chucked away !!
I was astounded at the amount of advertising on bill boards , buses/trams , buildings etc.

I love programmes about the past and how things used to be , it really helps to put one in touch with how our ancestors lives used to be.

Saaf Lon'on - nar'ot I mean?

Anyone from Cornwall know Kit Hill? My friend who is proper Cornish wore a little hat to a wedding and said her hat looked like a pimple on the top of Kit Hill!!!!!!!!!

On the subject of dialect..........I happened to catch a TV programme some months ago about a German experiment back in ww1.........they had recorded the voices of hundreds of English prisoners of war.

The recordings have survived all this time where as , sadly the dialects have not.

I wish I could remember what the programme was called as it was most interesting.

Oddly enough I was asked today if I was from London ( I live in Norfolk ) I was only 4 when I moved here but apparently the accent is still detectable....lol

Hi Julia

It's in Great Amwell, between Ware and Hoddesden.

Yes, he did advertise Mackeson.

I've just looked him up as well. It says his acting persona was with a Hertfordshire or Buckinghamshire accent.

I know Bernard Miles had an accent, but don't know where he came from.

My accent as been described as "posh Irish" yet I am neither posh or Irish where Im from

yo ham spose spake loike dis or clar ov wum

but not me strangely ~ ask Col I think I shocked him!!!

Hi Winterwitch, I grew up in Finchley then moved to Wood Green with my OH. We now live in a small village in Hertfordshire and some of the local people here do have an accent.

Julia I lived in Wembury where did you live .I went to Plymstock Comp.

Who knows what chuggypigs are?

I'm also a north londoner, didn't think we had a regional accent.

ar thee eckerslike dis'peerin!

We are unaware of our accent. Others sound regional or posh.

I don't have an accent,and grew up in Plymouth.But when my sister and I get together OH says we get a bit Devonshire!!!
Not easy to explain on here,cos you can't bledy ere me lol

well blow me down...... another norf Londoner well
~~~~gives a wave ~~~