Not sure what you mean by the council, but Neston is in 'CWAC' AKA Cheshire West and Chester Council. Sorry if I got the wrong end of the stick.
Keeping local dialects alive.
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Not sure what you mean by the council, but Neston is in 'CWAC' AKA Cheshire West and Chester Council. Sorry if I got the wrong end of the stick.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
You have a Yorkshire accent. Not a Leeds one, but deffo Yerksha
Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
I used to work for EPNBC. I had orange overalls with the crest on!
This was in the dark ages though, hence the bright overalls!
Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
Al teases me if I get tired and revert to rolling my rrrrrs
My dad taught my to drive in the car park. Not on a match day obviously!
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
I've spent a fair bit of time in China. All the regions of China use the same characters but, in their local dialect/language the pronunciation is completely different. The people of Fuzhou are famous for having a dialect totally incomprehensible to any province bordering them. But the local language in Shanghai is totally different from, say, Sichuan and they cannot understand each other
Hence Mandarin or "putonghua" literally "common language". But even then the local accents are very different. A Beijing taxi driver speaks Mandarin completely differently from, say, a Guangzhou shopkeeper or a Sichuan policeman. I can manage a few of the accents, which the locals find as remarkable as a talking dog.
Hence Mandarin or "putonghua" literally "common language". But even then the local accents are very different. A Beijing taxi driver speaks Mandarin completely differently from, say, a Guangzhou shopkeeper or a Sichuan policeman. I can manage a few of the accents, which the locals find as remarkable as a talking dog.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
johnblack
Veteran
- Location
- South Northamptonshire
The next village to me, still in the same parish has a different accent, just even more countryfied than mine. Within 10 miles in all directions the accent changes a lot, might be I notice it more as a local, but it's amazing how it changes. I think it's mainly to do with where people moved from years back. Northwards a Cov. Brum twang. South, more North London, East proper Northampton, West bit less of anything really noticeable but far more mixed.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Sorry done it again. Did not mean to jump in on your post and cannot see how to change it.
Locally where I live there is an insertion of a letter A in some place names.
Ie Ardnamurachan rather than as spelled Ardnamurchan.
I would have thought it came from the Gaelic word geansaí which means jumper.
https://glosbe.com/ga/en/geansaí
It looks like the island is the same pronunciation in Gaelic
So which came first ?
Was the clothing named after the island, or the island after the clothing ?
(Guernsey I guess would have originally been in the Gaeltacht, as it right next to Brittany)
I don't know tbh.
Funny that - northerners (whatever that means) might say that accents get more pronounced the further south you go.
Deleted User
Guest
- Location
- Wolverhampton
Black country and Brummie's, our accent is bad enough but to be referred to as a Brummie!
We must have the worst accent of all!
An Oss is an Oss.
We must have the worst accent of all!
An Oss is an Oss.
In the New World 200 miles is just down the road, but 200 years is a very long time.
In the Old World 200 miles is a very long way, but 200 years is like yesterday
