Accent Keywords
February 1st, 2006 5
One thing I’ve been thinking about the last few days is accents. Yes pretty random I know, but it’s been in there with all the other stuff that I really don’t want to write about at the moment, so you’ve got to put up with this. Sorry.
Anyway, the accents. Mine, for example, would be described as “Brummie” by someone who lived anywhere else in England except Birmingham, and they’d probably think I was a from Dudley. In fact, if you really want to localize it mine is a Walsall accent, coming from Brownhills as I do. But I guess that’s not important right now, so I’m going with “Brummie”.
It was my mate Dave that pointed out that certain words sound better in some accents than they do in others. Brummies can really say the number five, putting the emphasis on the “fi” so it sounds like “fi-a-ve”. Where as Geordie’s do well with the word “Conjunctivitis”, try it you’ll see what I mean. So it seams to me that accents have their own keywords that really define them. Here are a few that I thought of…
- Conjunctivitis- Geordie
- Five (fi-a-ve) - Brummie
- Thirty Three and a Third (terty-tree and a turd) - Irish
Well, I did say a few. Maybe you could come up with some more?
5 Comments (+0 in the moderation queue).
#1 On February 1st, 2006 at 2:22 pm Kris said...
Hows your ranking - Jonathan Ross’ accent
#2 On February 1st, 2006 at 9:51 pm Starberri said...
Jenni - Yorkshire accent
#3 On February 2nd, 2006 at 10:53 am rob said...
as much as people mistake my accent for American, I have a Canadian accent. Coming from the north of Canada, we have a mild accent compared to Americans, with a slight hint of Irish. Funny I work here in Munich Germany for an International school, and everyone here at my work has an accent. British, Ozzie, German, Dutch, you name it, its totally cool!
#4 On February 2nd, 2006 at 5:19 pm Jon said...
Ha, there’s an Canadian guy at our church who I thought was Irish for about (a-boot) a year.
#5 On April 5th, 2007 at 8:50 pm Jon Calcutt said...
I know wat you mean mate i`m from Walsall [the chuckery, don`t know if you know it] and everyone i meet reckons i’m from brum. i keep tellin um i ay. My dads from the black counry so i’ve got his accent a bit and now i live in dudley. fight, fight where ever you ,ay be. we are the boys from the black country.