English accents....Which are the most distinctive?......

[Wacky Racer]

A few for starters:-

Reckon I can spot these no problem........

Scouse

Burnley....(See yer layter).....That's Goodbye btw.

Dudley

Essex

London

Geordie

Cornish

Bournemuff

Birmingham

West Yorkshire

[Johnny]

I like northern monkey best.

[johny105]

south yorkshire

me living in west yorkshire

[central]

Godda goo now, shallada tek air dug down street forra walk.

[Mobile Chicane]

Medway Towns (even has its own 'language')

Norfolk (as I suspect does this)

[Merry]

Wigan/Old Lancashire

[roscozs]

Cumbrian...especially West Cumbrian.
Theres some general day to day words down the bottom of the page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbrian_dialect

[Incredible Sulk]

Are you excluding we Scots, and the Irish and the Welsh as we don't speak English?

[Glassman]

Basikly yeh, Slough innit.

[eldar]

Mobile Chicane said:

Medway Towns (even has its own 'language')

Norfolk (as I suspect does this)

Cumbria, has its own language, cumbric. Spoken by 5 farmers and 6 sheep.

Otherwise its english, of a sort, like 'gan yam marra ti git me bait'. A pissed Cumbrian is unintelligible even to other pissed cumbrians.

[roscozs]

eldar said:

Mobile Chicane said:

Medway Towns (even has its own 'language')

Norfolk (as I suspect does this)

Cumbria, has its own language, cumbric. Spoken by 5 farmers and 6 sheep.

Otherwise its english, of a sort, like 'gan yam marra ti git me bait'. A pissed Cumbrian is unintelligible even to other pissed cumbrians.

Its strange for me to hear them as I work in Carlisle and live in Scotland but I work with a lot of west cumbrians. I can listen to them all day long. Its taken me nearly 3 years to understand them. Utterly amazing language.

[B17NNS]

Stoke

[Big Rod]

Bristolian

Bucks. (proper old sty;e)

[whitevanman88]

Hull.

[Wacky Racer]

Incredible Sulk said:

Are you excluding we Scots, and the Irish and the Welsh as we don't speak English?

No, you're foreign......

Och aye the noo........

[Mobile Chicane]

eldar said:

Mobile Chicane said:

Medway Towns (even has its own 'language')

Norfolk (as I suspect does this)

Cumbria, has its own language, cumbric. Spoken by 5 farmers and 6 sheep.

Otherwise its english, of a sort, like 'gan yam marra ti git me bait'. A pissed Cumbrian is unintelligible even to other pissed cumbrians.

What's that in English? Is 'Cumbric' just a thick accent or is it more systematic than that?

I only know about Medway because I worked in Chatham for a while, and asked one of my staff what she was doing over the weekend. The reply: "Gonna get gatted".

What?

It's a local slang whereby certain letters are substituted - in this case 'r' with 'g' (apparently there are loads more).

In English it means "Gonna get ratted".

[Mobile Chicane]

Brighton's another. There's a distinct local accent which pronounces 'r' as 'w'.

Overheard in West Street at pub kicking out time: "Awight Gawy, comin' dahn the Nut?"

[Glassman]

Mobile Chicane said:

Brighton's another. There's a distinct local accent which pronounces 'r' as 'w'.

Overheard in West Street at pub kicking out time: "Awight Gawy, comin' dahn the Nut?"

You say this was in Brighton...?

[Alex97]

Wacky Racer said:

Bournemuff

Bournemouth accent? Since when?

[edit] or do you mean a Dorset accent? Because a Dorset accent is no where to be found in Bournemouth.....

Edited by Alex97 on Thursday 29th April 20:36

[Rouleur]

I love my friend's husband's hardcore Essix accint -

"raaandabaaat"

"pab" (pub)

"point" (pint)

"bay-bay"

"sawted"

"noice" etc