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Post by Patrick on Jan 10, 2009 9:38:29 GMT
A coach with 23 children on board has crashed into a house in Ilminster in Somerset. Sociologically speaking, this clip is interesting by something I've noticed as a worrying trend in the South West of England - the lack of local accents! Except the fireman. Though I expect he probably has to commute from Cardiff in order to be able to afford a house there, Nice to see a girl called "Sadie" too! There aren't enough Sadies IMO.
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Post by trubble on Jan 10, 2009 15:12:46 GMT
I bow to your superior knowledge of Ilminster but they all sounded like genuine SW accents to me.
What should they have been like? What's your accent btw?
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Post by Patrick on Jan 10, 2009 17:01:54 GMT
Well, the family had one - but the children from the bus were decidedly posh (how else would one be called Sadie (Did I mention that I love that name and that it's a crime that it's been given to dogs over the years??!)
Me? I'm posh apparently.
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Post by trubble on Jan 10, 2009 17:13:11 GMT
well south west england has some posh people ya know and they are allowed to speak posh. How posh are you? Are you an imported accent to your area? Have you got a non-local accent?   Bad Patrick! |
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Post by Patrick on Jan 10, 2009 17:30:32 GMT
well south west england has some posh people ya know and they are allowed to speak posh. How posh are you? Are you an imported accent to your area? Have you got a non-local accent? Bad Patrick! There was an edition of Gardener's Question Time from Bridgewater a little while back - and not one questioner sounded "local"  They all sounded like they just stopped off to dust off their second home in the Quantocks for the weekend. It's an invasion I tell you - Not how I remembered the place when on holiday in the 1970's. They don't speak anything other than Islingtonese in Padstow these days - and Whitstable in Kent's full of Hoxtonites! |
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Post by trubble on Jan 10, 2009 17:52:13 GMT
I suspect this normal!  as in natural.... what does a bridgewater accent sound like anyway? |
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Post by Patrick on Jan 10, 2009 17:57:09 GMT
I suspect this normal! as in natural.... what does a bridgewater accent sound like anyway? Nice.  |
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Post by trubble on Jan 10, 2009 18:13:45 GMT
;D I'm getting the feeling that this is all rather subjective.
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Post by Patrick on Jan 10, 2009 20:43:12 GMT
Merely bewailing the loss of local culture from our towns and cities, that's all.  I would have joined in, but I've discovered that I'm immune from accents. |
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Post by everso on Jan 11, 2009 22:13:36 GMT
They weren't posh! They all had Somerset accents - admittedly not as strong as they would have had, say, 50 years ago, but I could certainly hear country-fied accents, Patrick. All accents have become less strong since the advent of t.v., cinema and, of course, people moving around the country more. Years ago most working class people hardly moved from their villages in a lifetime so it's no wonder accents were stronger. Of course the most prevalent accent at the moment is the "Nah-ah-mean-innit" one that has developed over the last 20 years. Bleuuughhh  |
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Post by Patrick on Jan 11, 2009 22:35:56 GMT
I was on the bus pulling out onto the main road from the bus station last year, all of about 50 seconds, and in that time between them - the two teenagers behind me - I counted 26 "Likes".
Those schoolgirls were posh.
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Post by everso on Jan 11, 2009 23:25:47 GMT
I was on the bus pulling out onto the main road from the bus station last year, all of about 50 seconds, and in that time between them - the two teenagers behind me - I counted 26 "Likes". Those schoolgirls were posh. Anyone who liberally sprinkles their conversation with "like", should be soundly thrashed. Like. |
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Post by everso on Jan 11, 2009 23:35:28 GMT
And what are YOU doing COUNTING words?? I bet you count your footsteps from the bus stop to your house.  |
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Post by Patrick on Jan 11, 2009 23:40:02 GMT
My ears tend to pick up on the liberal use of "Like" or "Know what I mean", when that happens I just start counting to see how many they do in, say five minutes. It ought to be an Olympic sport!
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Post by everso on Jan 12, 2009 0:11:09 GMT
My ears tend to pick up on the liberal use of "Like" or " Know what I mean", when that happens I just start counting to see how many they do in, say five minutes. It ought to be an Olympic sport! You mean "Nah ah meen"  |
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Post by swl on Jan 12, 2009 0:19:26 GMT
"Innit" makes my teeth grate And also the irritating habit which started in Australia of making every sentence into a question by going up at the end? |
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Post by rjpageuk on Jan 12, 2009 1:16:25 GMT
Nice to see a girl called "Sadie" too! There aren't enough Sadies IMO. One of my cats is called Sadie, the rubbish one. |
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Post by Patrick on Jan 13, 2009 1:35:49 GMT
Aw. Sadie's are lovely!
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They all sounded like they just stopped off to dust off their second home in the Quantocks for the weekend. It's an invasion I tell you - Not how I remembered the place when on holiday in the 1970's. They don't speak anything other than Islingtonese in Padstow these days - and Whitstable in Kent's full of Hoxtonites! 
as in natural.... what does a bridgewater accent sound like anyway?
