Wainy316 Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 18 minutes ago, bickster said: Not an accent, its a different language Here it is in it's written form. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 20 hours ago, bobzy said: I don't think I'd ever really noticed what a Leicester accent is until recently. There's some similarity to Notts - where I live now - definitely in the 'eh' replacing 'y', but then an 'ah' sound to replace 'er' (So Leicester is Leicestah) and some weird sort of 'i' derivative that I can't quite think of an example for. It's almost like a New Zealand 'i' being an 'e' (pen being pronounced 'pin') but isn't as noticeable as that. I don't think it's an accent that's especially pleasing on the ear. The main thing I notice is when they say the word 'out' or words that end in it. It becomes quite a long 'arrrrt' sound. I think this bit is stronger the further north you go in the East Midlands, so people from Nottingham and areas around it will say "abarrt" rather than about. As you righty say, the 'ah' sound instead of 'er' is very strong in people from Leicester. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted October 12, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted October 12, 2021 When on the receiving end of some criticism, mild or otherwise, do people find the Irish accent to have a bit more bite to it? Particularly in older people. It’s more sort of…withering I think? It might be the people I’ve spoken to just happen to have a more cutting tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veloman Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Has the Potteries accent been mentioned yet.? My wife has such an affliction - but doesn't think she has ! 'Yer conna beat it'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 1 hour ago, veloman said: Has the Potteries accent been mentioned yet.? My wife has such an affliction - but doesn't think she has ! 'Yer conna beat it'. The accent interlopes into Stafford here, it used to bother me massively but now I accept that Stokies are afforded freedom of movement, unfortunately. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veloman Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 (edited) 22 hours ago, Seat68 said: The accent interlopes into Stafford here, it used to bother me massively but now I accept that Stokies are afforded freedom of movement, unfortunately. A bit harsh - youth ! Edited October 13, 2021 by veloman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 20, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted October 20, 2021 Do we have any Russian speakers on here? I'm led to believe that Russian pronunciation is logical and consistent, but I'm confused by surnames ending in -ev. Most of them seem to be pronounced as -eff, but what was going on with Nikita Kruschev (Krusch-choff)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 21, 2021 Moderator Share Posted October 21, 2021 18 hours ago, mjmooney said: Do we have any Russian speakers on here? I'm led to believe that Russian pronunciation is logical and consistent, but I'm confused by surnames ending in -ev. Most of them seem to be pronounced as -eff, but what was going on with Nikita Kruschev (Krusch-choff)? It was pronounced wrong in the West and has stuck with him in Western Media It's pronounced as you would expect it to be not how it is 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one_ian_taylor Posted October 21, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted October 21, 2021 22 hours ago, mjmooney said: Do we have any Russian speakers on here? I'm led to believe that Russian pronunciation is logical and consistent, but I'm confused by surnames ending in -ev. Most of them seem to be pronounced as -eff, but what was going on with Nikita Kruschev (Krusch-choff)? There's a letter ye in Russian, which looks like an e and is often written in the latin alphabet as e, and a letter yo, which also looks like an e, but with two dots, so is also often written in the latin alphabet as e. There's also a letter e in Russian, but written like a backwards e. Not confusing at all to amateurs like me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 On 12/10/2021 at 13:19, Mark Albrighton said: When on the receiving end of some criticism, mild or otherwise, do people find the Irish accent to have a bit more bite to it? Particularly in older people. It’s more sort of…withering I think? It might be the people I’ve spoken to just happen to have a more cutting tone. Hard to say. Most of my family are from Cork and the accent is in my opinion the best in the country....there are what I'd say are harsher accents, further north, in the 6 counties for example but if I'm being verbally withered by the family "back home" then it's the speed of the delivery that is noticed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted November 19, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted November 19, 2021 1 hour ago, mottaloo said: Hard to say. Most of my family are from Cork and the accent is in my opinion the best in the country....there are what I'd say are harsher accents, further north, in the 6 counties for example but if I'm being verbally withered by the family "back home" then it's the speed of the delivery that is noticed. I’m really basing this thought on two blokes who I knew. I forget where the one fella was from, but I know it was right on the border, about as north of Ireland as you can get without being in Northern Ireland. The other fella was from Dundalk so there’s possibly something in the northern quality you’ve hit upon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 20, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted November 20, 2021 17 hours ago, Mark Albrighton said: about as north of Ireland as you can get without being in Northern Ireland. You can be north of the whole of Northern Ireland, and still be in the Republic. Malin Head 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 All Slavic languages are incredibly phonetic. People think Polish looks hard but it isn’t. just learn the alphabet and the small amount of digraphs and trigraphs and you’re set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 I am 10 years into learning Dutch, I am getting there and can understand it mostly, 90 % lets say. Accent's, I have lived in Holland for 21 years now. So I am free from the Birmingham accent in totality. Disclaimer : 100% NSFW. I don't know what this is but it's the 1st one. I was trying out some Audio / Visual editing software and matching sound to visuals and I ended up with this video. It is relevant in terms of accents though. So are they imprinted somehow into your brain and do some accents disappear quicker than others ? I start after 47 seconds. Birmingham DWP agent undercover at a American Shopping channel. I apologize in advance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 14 hours ago, chrisp65 said: now you know how i feel every day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 How long has there been a Scouse accent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 8, 2022 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 8, 2022 3 minutes ago, maqroll said: How long has there been a Scouse accent? Good question. It's very hard to know what regional accents were like once you get back beyond the audio recording area. Written phonetic examples exist here and there - Chaucer's Canterbury Tales feature one of the earliest examples of northern English accents used for comic effect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 8, 2022 Moderator Share Posted April 8, 2022 11 minutes ago, maqroll said: How long has there been a Scouse accent? Not that long relatively speaking. It's one of the younger UK dialects. Scouse is an amalgamation of Irish / Welsh / Lancashire accents and the Irish and Welsh only started arriving in Liverpool in numbers in the late 19th century. Now given that it would take a good couple of generations for the accent to start developing, it can only really be just over 100 years old. It is also an accent that is constantly developing and there are a number of dominant strains. But all those people from the 60s that became famous don't speak anything like the current population. The Birmingham / West Midlands accents on the other hand are probably the oldest as they are said to much closer to the English spoken in Shakespearian times and earlier than any of the others and they don't change anywhere near as much 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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