Ask yer Granny!

Bitsy_Beans

meritaten wrote: »

sunnyday, my family are Welsh (Valleys), and we didnt realise that we were speaking anything other than the Queens English, until my mums cousin married a lovely woman from surrey. The poor woman had to ask Ken (mums cousin) for a translation of almost everything we said! Kens' missus thought we were speaking Welsh! lmao - the poor woman was then transplanted to Swansea and has become proficient at Wenglish! (Wenglish - the mix of Welsh and English spoken in South Wales - particularly in the Valleys).

LOL this was me and my FIL. Softly spoken southern Irish accent which I could only translate based on H's responses :rotfl:

mardatha

:D Loving the pinking shears ! My mum was Glasgow Irish and had a funny mix of acccents. I can do southern Irish but not Cork, thats very hard to follow. I had an aunt from Lowestoft and I loved to listen to her, fabulous accent she had. Couldn't understand a word though :rotfl:
Wondering now how they coped with those steep stairs... if your knees or hip went then I suppose you were totally housebound. And I think they spent so much time outside the house working hard, that they got home and slumped in a chair near the fire - they didn't care how much furniture was in the room . Probably better to reach out a long arm and get something from a drawer than have to get up and go for it.:)
My granny was always knitting socks - anybody else remember this?

Memory_Girl

ERm!!! mardatha! I'm reading this knitting socks for my toddler:rotfl:

Wonder if he will remember that in years to come.

MG

mardatha

Awh thats lovely ! I seem to spend my whole life knitting socks, wish I hadn't started now !

candygirl

SUNNYDAY my OH is from Leeds, and I always crack up when he says "wun" for "one." I love regional accents though, and agree that a lot of peeps have a fake neutral accent nowadays.My oldest mate went to Uni, in our home town mind you, and somehow developed a mock posh, v fake accent:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I went to the same Uni, and stayed the same:D:D;)
I love most Northern accents, as well as Southern Irish ones:D

WeegieWumman

The first couple of times I went to the West of Ireland to meet the in-laws, my FIL had some difficulty understanding my accent.
I was surprised by how many of the people asked if I was Scottish or Northern Irish because of the similarity of both accents.

Sunnyday

Candygirl - I love all the northern accents too, my best pal growing up was Irish and she had a wonderful family. I spent all my time with them.
Scottish & Welsh i love too. I think that they are wonderful to hear - i could listen to people speak all day.

Lol@ the Leeds accent I used to work with some guys from there and they used to crease me up sometimes. Keep asking your OH to say car, it was one of my faves

When i think about it some of the pronunciations are similar and we`re not too far from Leeds eg "go and get in the car" in Leedsese would be "go and gerrin the caar" I`d say "goan gerrin t`car" I think that apart from the older generations the hard "t" is now much softer - more of a sound made in the throat IYKWIM.

Well i know what i mean but no one else probably does :rotfl:

SD

candygirl

Sunnyday wrote: »

Candygirl - I love all the northern accents too, my best pal growing up was Irish and she had a wonderful family. I spent all my time with them.
Scottish & Welsh i love too. I think that they are wonderful to hear - i could listen to people speak all day.

Lol@ the Leeds accent I used to work with some guys from there and they used to crease me up sometimes. Keep asking your OH to say car, it was one of my faves

When i think about it some of the pronunciations are similar and we`re not too far from Leeds eg "go and get in the car" in Leedsese would be "go and gerrin the caar" I`d say "goan gerrin t`car" I think that apart from the older generations the hard "t" is now much softer - more of a sound made in the throat IYKWIM.

Well i know what i mean but no one else probably does :rotfl:

SD

I know what you mean.I also pmsl when he says mysen instead of myself:rotfl::rotfl:Love his accent really:p:p;)

VJsmum

candygirl wrote: »

SUNNYDAY my OH is from Leeds, and I always crack up when he says "wun" for "one." I love regional accents though, and agree that a lot of peeps have a fake neutral accent nowadays.My oldest mate went to Uni, in our home town mind you, and somehow developed a mock posh, v fake accent:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I went to the same Uni, and stayed the same:D:D;)
I love most Northern accents, as well as Southern Irish ones:D

Erm - how else do you say one? I'm from Kent and i say "Wun" to rhyme with bun.

My dad comes from a place about 5 miles from where we grew up but he has a different way of speaking to us - if someone is "an old boy" then they are probably a lad, he'll say "'ow do?" for hello

I'd "ketch a bas" to go "dahn tahn" or ask someone "rand are aas" - when i first moved to the midlands, people thought i came from either London, Essex or Australia :rotfl:

Now everyone back home thinks i'm posh!

candygirl

VJsmum wrote: »

Erm - how else do you say one? I'm from Kent and i say "Wun" to rhyme with bun.

My dad comes from a place about 5 miles from where we grew up but he has a different way of speaking to us - if someone is "an old boy" then they are probably a lad, he'll say "'ow do?" for hello

I'd "ketch a bas" to go "dahn tahn" or ask someone "rand are aas" - when i first moved to the midlands, people thought i came from either London, Essex or Australia :rotfl:

Now everyone back home thinks i'm posh!

I can't imagine it will sound the same as the Leeds "wun" as in the word for "one", not the word for winning something:rotfl::rotfl:God i'm confusing myself here now:rotfl::rotfl: