Geoid Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 I was shown a Geordie one once A friend had a Geordie guide to computing, I think the start key said "Howay" or something like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Very funny! "The Big disk wi aall me stuff on it!!!" Marvellous. I love a geordie accent. Is that how Couperman and Couperwife speak do you think? I'd like to think so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 I love Geordie accents, and the people - they're always so friendly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Very funny! "The Big disk wi aall me stuff on it!!!" Marvellous. I love a geordie accent. Is that how Couperman and Couperwife speak do you think? I'd like to think so. Kev has a sort of watered down version, locals know it isnt Geordie, but people not so local often mistake it for Geordie (he will probably kill me for saying this ) Im not a Northern local (if you like) I was brung up in Tamworth, so I sometimes have a great Brummie accent (normally when I shout at Sprogs at school or I am tired) Claret has heard us speak (and others who went to the omlet do at Blenheim) what do you lot think? cathy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 7, 2007 Author Share Posted December 7, 2007 Got to watch what I say here. Cathy - you didn't sound very 'northern' to me, but then I work with some northerners and am used to the accent. I could hear the brummie in you though. You want to hear Twiglet (not on the forum often) she's from Tamworth and has a briliant accent. I didn't have any problems with Kev's either - he's not nearly as broad as Phil's mate from Newcastle - I cant understand a word M says I love regional accents too. In banbury, I get accused of sounding 'dead posh' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 most of my school friends have mega brummie accents, I sometimes struggle to understand them when I go back to my parents. Im so used to the Middlesbrough twang, that I have to re-program my hearing to "brummie" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 7, 2007 Author Share Posted December 7, 2007 That's exactly what it's like when M visits, I have to really concentrate and look at him intently - he thinks it's hilarious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 A man's cupping his hands to scoop water from a Highland burn. Gamekeeper shouts " Dinnae drink thon waater, it's fu 'o coo's keech'. Man replies " My good fellow, I'm English. Repeat it in English'. Gamekeeper replies " Use both hands, you'll get more that way". - my Scottish accent isn't that strong, thank goodness ( no offence intended ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 pic of windaz o/s on a simliar theme..... The Scouse keyboard: phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 i'm married to a (posh) scouser! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 I was shown a Geordie one once A friend had a Geordie guide to computing, I think the start key said "Howay" or something like that That's it! I've quoted the whole lot as it deserves to be seen again in all it's glory! Brilliant I think maybe a Brummie keyboard would have ER on the start button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperman Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 The boro accent is horrible! it is nothing like Geordie, it is more like Scouse with the charm removed! However, we live in the more posherer part of the world , we have a beach! I used to work with a guy from Crawley, who insisted I was a Geordie, I called him Frenchy, because France was nearer to Crawley than Newcastle is to Middlesbrough. You have never lived untill you have heard a Geordie lass ask it you would like some Gateaux, (sp) (cake) Trigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 You have never lived untill you have heard a Geordie lass ask it you would like some Gateaux, (sp) (cake) Gate hooks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperman Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 You have never lived untill you have heard a Geordie lass ask it you would like some Gateaux, (sp) (cake) Gate hooks? No, not quite! there is a story behind this one!! It is more like GatOHH! I think I have told this story on here before, it involved a fire extinguisher etc etc. I liked the way she said GatOOh (Waitress) so I asked what the cake was every time. Kev. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Snowy Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Cathy has obviously heard the story before then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 just once or twice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 I just love Regional accents........ because, of course, I don't have one at all ..... and I do say plaaaaster and barth........ and we poke fun at Carl and his flat vowels! Here's an Americanism......... we were with rellies in Minnesota, all looking at the menu - I was looking for anything vegetarian ( ) and kept hearing them mention "flamin' Yon" - I had to ask what it was...............much to my embarrassment it turned out to be 'filet mignon' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xScrunchee Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Phew! Glad you weren't offended... I loved it so much that I took the risk, hoping that you'd all laugh too. I used Pengy (if she'll excuse me) as my yardstick - I knew she'd find it funny I sometimes have a hard job working out the Banbury accent and I've lived here for 13 years now! I did find it funny and a bit sad. I do talk just like that and I hate my my accent! I wanted to get elocution lessons but they have proved hard to find. I too grew up in Havering-Elm Park in fact I went to school in Rainham. Anyway, I have had problems with my accent. I hated speaking to people who sounded 'posh' as I thought that they would straight away judge me as being an 'idiot'!! It's because on TV Essex girls are dim. They cannot pronounce their words properly, they use the wrong words in the wrong context and are simply portrayed as being simple, stupid, thick (Or is that 'fick'??). So, when you have this accent you just worry that people will think that you are all of the above. I am starting to care less and less as I get older but do find that if I am speaking to someone who I consider to be well spoken-I try to cover up my accent and make sure that I pronounce all of my words well. I probably make myself sound pretty stupid in an attempt to not sound stupid!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 I had a friend who decided to go posh. Trouble was....she hadn't a clue and she thought all she had to was elongate all her "A" sounds. She once described something as being "Arrrbsolutely Farrntarrstic". My cup of tea came down my nose as I recall. I love a regional accent.....it's sloppy speech that I can't be doing with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 A man's cupping his hands to scoop water from a Highland burn. Gamekeeper shouts " Dinnae drink thon waater, it's fu 'o coo's keech'. Man replies " My good fellow, I'm English. Repeat it in English'. Gamekeeper replies " Use both hands, you'll get more that way". - my Scottish accent isn't that strong, thank goodness ( no offence intended ). I am always being mistaken for English Can't understand why Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 How would you describe my accent Louise?, Quite 'broad'? - don't be shy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 What I expected Fee I have family from Newarthill which is not far from you and you were just as I remember Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 I am always being mistaken for English I'm occasionally accused of being English when I'm in Scotland (yes, accused ) but when I'm in England people think I've got a definite Scottish accent. (I'm always being teased about saying "och" all the time ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
