West west Yorks (Hebden Bridge etc) is very broad IMO, more like Lancashire than the rest of Yorkshire. Used to work In Halifax (I was only 5 miles away) and it was very noticable. Also worked with people from Cas, which is very different again, more South Yorks (they say eeet instead if ight, which I find odd).

Live in York now, so the west yorks accent seems out of place (hence me slowly dripping it I suppose)

It's interesting how dialects vary within a few miles, not sure if that's the case down south

 

It was just a joke, he's allowed a bit of poetic license

 

Nar, they're all bland and boring down south

 

my mrs. is from the large mid-south mash of counties. No accents as such, and no identity, they just blend into one IMO

it's funny though that people group northerns accents together, depite the north including Liverpool and Newcastle amongst others

(if you're ever eating in the pub in Bamburgh, ask fir garlic bread. Had a real Peter Kay moment as they looked blankly at each other - Garlic? Bread?! )

 

Yes but at least you can understand what we're saying

 

Like I said, boring, Id rather not be able to understand them if they ramble on all the time

 

you can tell the difference between a north london and an east london and a south london accent though...I always think yorkshire, lancashire etc all same the same so I guess its what you're used to.

 

The Doncaster dialect test


How many of these can you understand?

1. Intitot?
2. Gizuzit.
3. Summatsupeer.
4. Gerritetten
5. Supwithee?
6. Smarrerweeim?
7. Eezgooinoom.
8. Astagorritwithy?
9. Thalaftergerra neeun.
10. Shutthigob.
11. Ouzeeno?
12. Arburritinterz.
13. Purritineer.
14. Itdunt marrer.
15. Esezeantadit.
16. Tintintin.
17. Middadz gorrajag
18. Eenoze nowtabartit.
19. Astagorratenner?
20. Lerrus gurrat pichers
21. Weev gorra gerrus sumbux.
22. Corferus arpastate intmornin.
23. Oowurriwee? Wurri weeisen?
24. Lerrim purrizaton.
25. Garrarg tergethi and weeit.
26. Azigeniter?
27. Geeiteer.
28. Alguttert futovarstairs!

5 correct: obviously you are from the south!
10 correct: on your way to being a settler.
25 correct: a native!
28 correct: It’s time you brushed up on your “Queen’s English”!

Alcazar

 

Me, ramble? Never

 

It really was only a joke in the first place and it was certainly good for a laugh!

I started down south but spent well over half my life well north of the Wash so I do know how it is used well enough.

I don't think the use of it in the show was anything to jump up and down over though.

Les

 

I could probably tell a north london from south london, but counties like hertforshire, bucks etc, not a chance

I've noticed my accent gets stronger when I spend time with my mates where I used to live, I think people adapt to an extent. My brother's lived in Bradford, Liverpool, Pennsylvania and Oxford, so he's just a mess

 

neither do I, I don't mind that at all, I just thought it was so badly done it wasn't funny, and the guy had a smug need-a-smack-in-the mouth look on his fat chops, when he realised that for the first time in the show he was making people laugh.

The show could just have Dara and the tall one that does the talk over bit IMO, everyone else is just filling

I think 'old bloke' lancashire and yorkshire accents are fine (lancashire accents on kids can be funny), it's the folk on council estates that always get interviewed on the news, with half their teeth missing amd surrounded in grubby kids, who talk like they just can't be bothered that make me cringe!

Some folks'll never loose a limb
but then again some folk'll
like Cleetus, the slack-jawed yocal

where's that from?!!

 

Being a west lancashire type I think you'll find that it's a myth that we put a "t'" before everything, just some things.


observe:

"I'm goin t' pub" - (space between the "t'" and pub)

"I'm watchin telly" - (There is no "t'" BEFORE telly, you simply pronounce only half of the 'n' at the end of "watchin". This substitutes "I am watching the telly", however, "I'm watchin telly" with a fully pronounced "n" is a substitute for "I am watching telly" without a "the")

Goddit you shandy drinking fairy *******?

 

Sounds like some show from the deep South to me!

Fair enough on the rest.

Les

 

You mean Doncaster ?

it was American, maybe one of the tv clips they sometimes have on the Simpsons

 

This thread is well funny, proper made me laugh. Being originally from London but spent most my life growing up in Derbyshire I've got used to hearing both southern and northern accents. What I dont understand is why so many northerners dislike people from the south and think you are posh lol, what's that about? I don't hear people from down south moaning about northerners this and that. Who cares, we're all from England, last time I checked

 

It's 'cos you're all ****!

HTH

 

Cause southerners are stuck up and think theyre the representative of England looking at us northerners as commoners, when infact, we know we are the real people of the world

 

Lots of southerners automatically look down on anyone with a northern accent. I think that's what causes resentment. doesn't matter how brite you are, if you role up somewhere in London with a Bra'ford accent, most people will assume they're cleverer than you (not hard in my case!)

I've got nothing against southerners and would happily move south if I had reason. After all we're all British, therefore far superior to the rest of the world!

 

Listen to the northerners with the chips on their shoulders!

Or should that be chip 'booties'?

 

Just less so if your from the South

 

I think you'll find that's just people from London.

 

Yorkshire is similar to Lancashire, but better.

 

Better? You dont even have a decent football team in Yorkshire Suppose its better for Yorkshiremen, more sheep and all that

 

I reckon it's all in your heads, I never even knew this whole north south divide existed untill I came up north. There is a lot more resentment of the south up north though. I think it's because the south is more cosmopolitan and used to different cultures and accents, northerners arn't as used to this and take the view that if you're not local then you arn't one of us. lol You'd think by the 21st century we'd have got over it.

 

We dislike southerners, because of all of the sh*te that we have to take from them.

 

Like what?

 

I don't care whether the Mock the Week guy was factually right or wrong. It was faffin hilarious!

 

Inuff o' these dooin's - am off t' ang mi coit on't' back o't' coil-oil dooer.

 

Lancashire folk are Yorkshire's cast offs with their brains kicked out.