I've just literally started this topic because I'm wondering if the moronic overuse of this word is limited to the circle of morons around me?

 

If you're over twenty and say this word more than say, once a day, you're literally a fuckwit.

 

It doesn't lend gravitas nor an air of learning to any statement, so stoppit.

Its t'other way round.

Look, cook, shook, book, soot, foot.

All with an 'u' sound

 

Think I can say either dependent on my mood - or mud

Have you ever come across someone who deliberately tries to put on their accent despite the fact that it doesn't come naturally.

 

I have a mate who suddenly started pronouncing the M6 'the th'em six'.

 

I've tried pointing out that this doesn't make sense whichever way you look at it as what he's actually now saying translates as 'the the M6'. Surely it's either 'The M6' or 'Th'em 6'?

Look, not luck

 

As in book, not buck

that's the way I say it. I'm told it's wrong.

Have you ever come across someone who deliberately tries to put on their accent despite the fact that it doesn't come naturally.

 

I have a mate who suddenly started pronouncing the M6 'the th'em six'.

 

I've tried pointing out that this doesn't make sense whichever way you look at it as what he's actually now saying translates as 'the the M6'. Surely it's either 'The M6' or 'Th'em 6'?

Nobody I've heard from Bolton sounds as bolton as paddy mcguiness

Have you ever come across someone who deliberately tries to put on their accent despite the fact that it doesn't come naturally.

 

I have a mate who suddenly started pronouncing the M6 'the th'em six'.

 

I've tried pointing out that this doesn't make sense whichever way you look at it as what he's actually now saying translates as 'the the M6'. Surely it's either 'The M6' or 'Th'em 6'?

 

Or southern folk who give it 'are you goin t t t t t shop' etc.  Belly laugh every time

 

Me and my mates used to ham up the accent a bit but mainly due to crap impressions of Fred Dibnah.  Tha knows?  

I work with a bloke from Plymouth and we do pitches together because he sounds a bit too posh and I bring a real 'down to earth' quality.

 

The thing is he was dragged up on a rough as fuck council estate. I'm overwhelmingly middle class and as Kent will attest, Salt of the Earth is not exactly the first phrase you'd think of describing me. All down to the power/perception of a Bolton accent.

I get the 'look, book, cook' thing all the time down here. They think it's so fucking funny.

 

They are lost when I ask them if what they wear on their feet to a mine site are 'buts'. If you pronounce the 'oo' in 'boots' as it should be, why the fuck should it change for look, book and cook?

 

The response from them should be to question me on the word 'hood' but I ain't telling 'em. 

If look and book are pronounced luck and buck, how the fuck do you pronounce luck and buck?

If look and book are pronounced luck and buck, how the fuck do you pronounce luck and buck?

Exactly the fooking same.

If look and book are pronounced luck and buck, how the fuck do you pronounce luck and buck?

 

in the same weigh

 

as in

 

not in a different whey

 

do you sea?

Edited February 15, 20179 yr by ZicoKelly

Do people say wood or 'wud'. But then again loot wouldn't be pronounced 'lut'.

in the same weigh

 

as in

 

not in a different whey

 

do you sea?

Eye see, aye.

 

But weigh and whey don't sound the same!

Eye see, aye.

 

But weigh and whey don't sound the same!

 

I've just read them out loud and can confirm they do

They don't

 

Whey sounds like they

 

Weigh, well, doesn't

Edited February 15, 20179 yr by Casino

I've just read them out loud and can confirm they do

Likewise.

Which probably sums the whole thing up.  There's no right or wrong way.

 

That said, teaching phonics to kids in areas of heavy accents is fraught with unnecessary difficulties . . .

that's the way I say it. I'm told it's wrong.

That's as maybe

 

But not boook

you wanna live here, these bloody colonials don't half struggle with vowels

 

yes becomes yis

finish becomes funush...assume that's a legacy from early Jock settlers

number - namba...perhaps London settlers

you wanna live here, these bloody colonials don't half struggle with vowels

 

yes becomes yis

finish becomes funush...assume that's a legacy from early Jock settlers

number - namba...perhaps London settlers

 

 

Fush and chups please. Quite like the Kiwi accent.

 

Here they've developed a 'nambah' pronunciation once again ending on a high note.

 

One of the worst things they do here is a refusal to use the word 'are'.  Everything is 'is' no matter how many there are.