Accents

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Why do Cockney's put the letter 'r' in lots of their words - such as

Barth (a city near Bristol and what people have a good wash in)
Doncarster (town in Yorkshire)
Parkistarn (cricket loving country next to India)

 

[Lavinda Past]

Try getting a cockney to say plastic bath... F*cks em up good and proper.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Try getting a cockney to say plastic bath... F*cks em up good and proper.

and why can't they say ''Birmingham''?

''Birmin'um''

 

[theonlyd]

Try getting a cockney to say plastic bath... F*cks em up good and proper.

I have these arguments with my mate at work, he's on your side what with me being southern and him being from Middleton but I managed to find one that even gets you lot.

Say Banana.

No Rs in that either but I've not met many who don't pronounce them.

 

[Lucky13]

Try getting a cockney to say plastic bath... F*cks em up good and proper.

No it don't and whats with likkle , it's , little.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Try getting a cockney to say plastic bath... F*cks em up good and proper.

No it don't and whats with likkle , it's , little.

Yes it does - Anyway, what's wrong with likkle? If it bothers you that much, just try it in a sentence like "look at all that smoke comin from that likkle chimley"

Proper.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Try getting a cockney to say plastic bath... F*cks em up good and proper.

No it don't and whats with likkle , it's , little.

Say that to my face and I'll put you in hospikkle

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

The way a person speaks is colloquial, and the different accents and grammatical quirks should be celebrated rather than cringed at. That is until you go anywhere near the South East, where they all sound like Del Boy. Fucking awful noise.

Just because the BBC introduced a form of Received Pronunciation doesn't mean we all have to speak like that. Using your example of the French sounding 'garaarje', who on Earth decided it should be pronounced like that?

 

[Carver]

Butter vs Batter, they pronounce them almost identical (as batter) in West London, the same way you would pronounce


They put batter on their bread, we put it on fish!

Turning the tables, why does every shop have 'ies' on the end in South Manchester. Okay for Wilkies as it's short for Wilkinsons but...

Marksies and Bootsies, wtf?

 

[Colliahhh]

Southerners who say 'rum' instead of 'room'.

Always getting on my tits that one!