called terminal country been bombed cant go back All accents change across the generations. For older speakers in Newcastle \"face\" sounds like \"fierce\", but younger speakers pronounce it in a more general North-of .England way. You might think that a \"Geordie\" speaker who says \"Can I have a shirt?\" is asking you for a tot of whisky!
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Distinctively London speech, traditionally called "Cockney", is centred on South-East London areas like Peckham. But quite a few London speech features, like saying "fin" for "thin" and "bruvver" for "brother", are rapidly spreading out into other British accents.
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Glasgow has its own posh accent, called "Kelvinside", in the same way that Edinburgh has its posh "Morningside" voice. In those accents the "a" sounds at the beginning of "happy" and "nasty" can even sound like the Queen"s.
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All accents change across the generations. For older speakers in Newcastle "face" sounds like "fierce", but younger speakers pronounce it in a more general North-of .England way. You might think that a "Geordie" speaker who says "Can I have a shirt?" is asking you for a tot of whisky!
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The written letter "s" doesn't always sound like an "s". What sounds do you use for the two "s" letters when you say "houses"? In Bangor, people usually do use the "s" sound in each case. SurpriSing.
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There's an "l" at the end of "Bristol". But did you know that some Bristol speakers put an "l" after words like "area", making this word sound just like "aerial"?
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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