Accents and dialects

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Marc Meakin
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Accents and dialects

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The UK is in global terms a small island (well several actually ) but I love a regional accent.
My ex wife comes from the Midlands and I liked the way she pronounced tooth and bus.
Also my Northern Irish friend likes to say film as Fillum.
But I pronounce water as wartah.
What quirks do you like ?
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Matt Rutherford
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Re: Accents and dialects

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Marc Meakin wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:39 am But I pronounce water as wartah.
Do you use the glottal stop?
Marc Meakin wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:39 am My ex wife comes from the Midlands and I liked the way she pronounced tooth and bus.
Roundabouts shall forever be 'islands'. Also, people don't use the word 'gambol' enough :)

One quirk of mine; when talking at speed, the 'tt' sound in words such as 'bottle', 'little' and 'rattle' can come out as a 'ck' sound. Is this courtesy of my speech being badly stilted or is it someone you've noticed in certain accents?
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Mark James
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Re: Accents and dialects

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Love a proper dublin accent saying naturdle minerdle wahter.

I also love the south African accent. It's bloody grite!
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Post by Paul Anderson »

I live in Dublin, but am from Limavady, Co. Derry, and I can tell you if you travel 10 miles anywhere in Ireland the accent changes
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