The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

When I grew up, everyone we knew had elocution lessons, now they don't seem to exist.

Posh alert!

I've only ever seen them referred to in the occasional TV programme. Certainly never met anybody who discussed them, thought about them, or had them.

I used to "speak well", but then I changed schools and I'd have got a kicking if I'd kept that up

Now my accent's "shabby" because of that.... I COULD speak well, but it'd be an effort at the start as I'm so unused to it.

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

Watching "keeping faith". That was my accent growing up, but less pronounced as my parents insisted on sending me to elocution lessons.

When I grew up, everyone we knew had elocution lessons, now they don't seem to exist.

No. I think people are a lot more appreciative of regional accents now, thank goodness.

I can remember at Primary school being quite good at poetry recitation. My teacher wanted to put me in for a competition, but then because I had a woolly 'r', she decided against. :(:(

I was gutted.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

No. I think people are a lot more appreciative of regional accents now, thank goodness.
I can remember at Primary school being quite good at poetry recitation. My teacher wanted to put me in for a competition, but then because I had a woolly 'r', she decided against. :(:(

A woolly "r"? You mean like Jonathan Woss and Woy Jenkins?
Never heard it called that - mind you I have heard those two being called all sorts of things

Jazee

I've also been watching the reruns of Vera. Some I've seen before, but it takes a while before I remember whodunnit. I've also been watching Age Before Beauty these last few weeks, quite good with no bodies (so far) and I intend to watch The Bodyguard from Sunday.


Last weekend DD and I went to the cinema with free tickets to see a preview of Searching which was about a missing person. It was very good, and different in perspective to anything I've seen on film before.



Maybe I just don't get out a lot although I did go out earlier like PN and filled up the tank. The petrol station was already busy but then we do live in a tourist area and it is Friday before BH.

Pyxis

Crumbs, Pastures! Your postman comes early!

I'm lucky, very lucky, if I get mine before 2pm. Usually it's later.

I was told once that my road's deliveries are just tacked onto the end of another round. I forget the name he gave to it.
It's been like that for a few years now. Don't see why they can't give us a break and tack another road on instead of us.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Crumbs, Pastures! Your postman comes early!

I'm lucky, very lucky, if I get mine before 2pm. Usually it's later.

I was told once that my road's deliveries are just tacked onto the end of another round. I forget the name he gave to it.
It's been like that for a few years now. Don't see why they can't give us a break and tack another road on instead of us.

I'm at an edge of an area.
I'm "first dibs" on bin mornings too

Jackmydad

Pyxis wrote: »

Crumbs, Pastures! Your postman comes early!

I'm lucky, very lucky, if I get mine before 2pm. Usually it's later.

I was told once that my road's deliveries are just tacked onto the end of another round. I forget the name he gave to it.
It's been like that for a few years now. Don't see why they can't give us a break and tack another road on instead of us.

Remember (just) when I was a kid, we lived in town and there were two deliveries a day.
That must have ended in the late 50s early 60s though.
Our's seems to depend which postie is one, and (I assume) which way round they do their round.
Can be 10:30, can be 15:00.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm at an edge of an area.
I'm "first dibs" on bin mornings too that's great as it means I can put the bin out and take it in straight away. Usually they're good at putting the bins back in place, but this week they slacked and dumped mine by my neighbour's gate instead of shoving it an extra 15' to be by mine. I do like to know the bin's not "out there, wherever, being moved/nicked or fiddled with"

Not too bad with bins by me, though they recently changed from coming very early to coming not quite so early.

Same moan from me about returning the bin. The pavement is very narrow, but they all too often leave the bin on the pavement instead of pushing it another twelve inches(!) onto my front garden which has no fence or wall or anything! So it blocks the pavement until I can get out there.

And I like to ensure my food waste bin is back inside, as, left out, that's the sort of thing that might walk, or get kicked around.

Jackmydad

Pyxis wrote: »

No. I think people are a lot more appreciative of regional accents now, thank goodness.

I can remember at Primary school being quite good at poetry recitation. My teacher wanted to put me in for a competition, but then because I had a woolly 'r', she decided against. :(:(

I was gutted.

I assume that it also meant you couldn't play the part of any pirates in school plays. . .:p
"Arrrrrr, me 'earties! Twould mean that for sure!"

I'd have been relieved!

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

I assume that it also meant you couldn't play the part of any pirates in school plays. . .:p
"Arrrrrr, me 'earties! Twould mean that for sure!"

I'd have been relieved!

No, I could say 'Arrrrrr!' And 'Me 'earties!'

It's when an 'r' is followed by another vowel that I had trouble.

It was far less apparent once I became older, although you can sometimes still detect a bit of it, and funnily enough, it seems to be more obvious when I'm singing!

I also have terrible trouble rolling my 'r' the Italian way. I can usually manage a single 'r' if I concentrate, but continuous rolling is impossible. It just all stops! No idea why!
It's a pain when I try to speak Italian!