September 20th: "Talk Like A Limey Day"

[rbgarr]

Oh, I say! Spot on, guv'nuh!

;)

[Hwyl]

So, what am I supposed to do?

[Popeye]

sweep on you fat and greasy citizen

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

So, what am I supposed to do?

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Why man, joost mek it oop as you go along.
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[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

'eaven and 'ell I fin' it's a mother's pearly gate idea. I 'ope I can make a couple of contributions.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

As ah mattah of fact one think one will chinwag fancy this all deay and see hoh many homes one can flog. Jolly good show old bean!

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Hear Hear
Yorkshire (mms://80.69.6.201/021/021SED00C908S47U00004C01.wma)

Quiz (mms://80.69.6.201/021/021SED00C908S44U00001C01.wma) special for Hwyl.

Witton le wear (mms://80.69.6.201/021/021SED00C908S43U00004C01.wma)

[bamamick]

kind of stuff. You guys carry on, though. It is kind of funny.

Mickey Lake

[Mrleft8]

Hullo! Wot's that you say? Noice day? It sort of is, isn't it? Roight! Well then, it's off to the pub for a point and poi... Can't be out in the sun too long, burns yer noggin...

[bamamick]

where some of the animals speak with some sort of cockney accents? I use to try and read those to the kids and make different voices for different characters. Lord, there is no telling what my kids thought of me doing that. They either thought that I was nuts, or just loved me enough to put up with it :). Thank God that we could afford a VCR and the 'Winnie the Pooh' tapes. My kids may have been damaged for life :).

Mickey Lake

[Hughman]

Wheesht!

[TomF]

The terminally cute voices in the Winnie the Pooh tapes did more to scar your children than any poor cockney accent. The inhumanity!

[uncas]

So there I was waiting for the loo
But to my horror, there was a queue.
I sat there smoking a fag in silence
So I gave you a jingle and gave you a ring,
Only to find phones weren't your thing.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

This is perhaps slightly specialist, in that it requires not only RealPlayer (down-loadable from the net) but also a sense of humour (available from Ebay?).

Stanley Baxter - Parliamo Glasgow (http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/aboutus/wirelesstoweb/decades/clip_display.shtml?decade=50s&clip_name=parliamo_glasgow&size=a&media_type=video)

[Hwyl]

P.I. I have to admit I have English forebearers, my Grandad was from Flookburgh, I really liked him, but it would take me an hour to get used to his dialect.

Similar here http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/group/cumbria-barrow.shtml

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

This is perhaps slightly specialist, in that it requires nhttp://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/forumdisplay.php?f=5ot only RealPlayer (down-loadable from the net) but also a sense of humour (available from Ebay?).

Stanley Baxter - Parliamo Glasgow (http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/aboutus/wirelesstoweb/decades/clip_display.shtml?decade=50s&clip_name=parliamo_glasgow&size=a&media_type=video)

Spew :D played it 10 times now just to get it :D :D :D

[uncas]

Hell, I can't even understand my mother's relatives from the deep south.
And I remember sitting next to a Gordie from Newcastle on a train. If I was lucky, I guessed correctly, I think, every third or fourth word.

[Another One]

Word in your shell-like?

After a complete first series (season) of "Life on Mars" on BBCA, I'm all set!

[Wild Dingo]

aah sod orf yer daft lot :p

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

The British are like everybody else in Europe. They speak in numerous dialects. Many more than were ever portrayed on Monty Python.
So all you stand-up types should identify which dialect you are attempting so the audience is not confused. Cornish, Yorkshire (worked with a guy from Teeside who was supposedly spoke English) Highland (worked with a guy from Inverness, more intellegable than the Yorshireman by a bit) Welsh, Cockney, Old school tie, Liverpuddlean (I hear most Brits see this as a foreign tongue) and on and on.
I'm certain there are more but, having spent no more that 5 hours in London and Windsor I don't know a lot.

Charlie

[martin schulz]

The British are like everybody else in Europe. They speak in numerous dialects.

Actually Germany has the highest number of dialects. Sometimes I wonder that we understand each other at all, but also sometimes even when we agree to speak the same "high" german understanding is not compulsory :(

[rbgarr]

Word in your shell-like?

Just wait 'til tomorrow, September 21st: "Talk Like A Slut Day"

[Wild Dingo]

:D:D:D Good One!!! :D:D

[Wild Dingo]

I have no idea what dialect of pommy I was bungin on up there... but I used to try and mimic ol man Steptoe from Steptoe and Son years ago... the one pommy accent I cant stand is that one the supposed "super nanny" uses.... gawd thats sodding shockin guv!

[bamamick]

He had a partner in his business and the partner was from Norway. The Norwegian guy had to translate for us. The last time that I was sent to Germany to work they scheduled another Englishman in to work with me. I can tell you that I was nervous just thinking about having to work with him but it was fine. He was from Manchester as well, but had served as an officer in the Royal Navy and his accent was not as 'hard' as the first fellow.

Of course, it irritates me when I do go to Germany that many of my friends say that my German pronunciation is easier to understand than my English! Most of the guys at the plant who have taken classes as an adult take them from a Scots guy who teaches at a local college. I am constantly being told that my southern US English is completely different from this Scots kid's accent. Well, I suppose that it is.

Off the track, but I do have a funny story about that. I don't know why but this Scottish teacher that my friends and their families take English lessons from has a serious dislike for the US. O.K, that's fine, but he apparently makes it a part of his English lessons. You should hear some of the questions that I get asked by these folks once we become friendly and a little more familiar with one another.

Mickey Lake

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Dew yew know Oi come from Suffolk, bor?

[Popeye]

i've got a loverly buncha coconuts

[Another One]

Just wait 'til tomorrow, September 21st: "Talk Like A Slut Day"

Most of the guys I knew in the military, and a great deal of them since, would qualify! ;)

Jami

[John Meachen]

Some of you might be amazed by the variety of local accents to be found.If you have the curiosity to plough through the BBC voices webpage,not just Hwyl's link,there is a range to be experienced.Being a native doesn't necessarily mean you are likely to understand a fellow Brit.

[Wild Wassa]

My Uncle Frank is a Derbyshire dairy farmer. He has an "ee by gum lad," accent.

"I don't like em Frenchies, send em milk o'er here, sell milk cheap price. It's hardly worth trouble lad."

"It's cooming up back end of year." It took a while to get the meaning. My wife who is a Pom, explained it to me.

I watch a lot of BBC TV. In real life I've not met a Pom with a speech impediment (not once) but every second person on the BBC can't pronounce the letter "r". "Thewe has been a missile test in Kowea." These people with speech impediments must be inbred in the catacombs of BCC central. "Gween fuel pwoducews pwoducts awe out of fashon in the US wecently." (I've the BBC news in the background at the moment, gween fuel is hot off the pwess or the aiw-waves).

Is this some sort of twee fashion statement by the BBC? ... or is it just being a Sloane Squawe twendy!

Wawwen.

[Meerkat]

EXCUSE ME! This is NOT "Talk like a limey day!," it's my birthday, dinkum! :mad: :D

[Wild Wassa]

Meerkat, Mate, well slap me around the head with a dead snake Digger! ((but after sundown, snakes don't die until after sundown.)

I hope you have planned a screamer of a day Mate. Well chalk up another one Sportsman, who would have thought? I'll down a symbolic few for you today then. I can use any old excuse to go down to the bottleo ... and a whopper congrats ... Coo-ee Cobbera have a good one.

Warren.

[S/V Laura Ellen]

I declare next Saturday to be "Talk like a Newfie Day". If you want to practice a demo can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m-y-...related&search=


PS: To be PC it should be "Talk like a Newfoundlander Day":D

[rbgarr]

Most of the guys I knew in the military, and a great deal of them since, would qualify! ;)

Jami

That's the spirit! Couldn't agree with you more!

For example: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52981

(Warning- Repeated use of a particular obscenity.)

[Backfin]

And Cleek's your uncle.