looney said:
hayes borough ?
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hayes borough ?
Brovian said:
I fell foul of this when I moved to Yorkshire. Nobody knew what I was talking about.
They call them ginnels here (hard g)
Another pronunciation I have been told about is that I say Oncle instead of Uncle. The person pointing it out said the only other person he heard that from was from Shoreham.
In Yorkshire the local dialect is very bizarre and varies from town to town.
One example is 'while' instead of 'until' eg Leave the shopping while Friday.
Sorrel
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No-one's mentioned it yet, but the first thing that annoys me is when people don't call "Cuckmere" Cook-mere.
Language often changes because of spelling, though. The word "Often" was pronounced "offen" up to the 1800's. But someone had the bright idea of spelling it with a 't'. And when everyone learnt to read after the education reforms of the 1870s, people thought they ought to prounce it "better". There's loads of other words that have changed in the same way.
(And don't get me started on the Great Vowel Shift.)
Language often changes because of spelling, though. The word "Often" was pronounced "offen" up to the 1800's. But someone had the bright idea of spelling it with a 't'. And when everyone learnt to read after the education reforms of the 1870s, people thought they ought to prounce it "better". There's loads of other words that have changed in the same way.
(And don't get me started on the Great Vowel Shift.)
Man of Harveys
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Isn't the fish name "huss" a Sussex thing? I think it's called something else in the clearly-inferior rest of the country. But hey! I've been wrong before.
Norfolk is the home of places not being pronounced as they're written:
Wymondham - "windom", to half-rhyme with "condom".
Costessey - "cozzy"
Bungay - (thankfully) "bung gee", with a hard "g".
Even the Norwich itself.
Norfolk is the home of places not being pronounced as they're written:
Wymondham - "windom", to half-rhyme with "condom".
Costessey - "cozzy"
Bungay - (thankfully) "bung gee", with a hard "g".
Even the Norwich itself.
Lord Bracknell
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Tipteers (or tipteerers, as I prefer) is a Sussex word. Mummers are more widespread.Titanic said:
I once performed the Firle* Tipteerers Play in the National Theatre of Liechtenstein.
* pronounced Furrle by the older natives of the place I now live in - which answers looney's question.
Huss is general southern English for what I called rock when I lived in the midlands. Huss and roll - a great English meal.
beorhthelm
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no, Firle is just down the road from Selmeston.
Lord Bracknell
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5 miles east of Lewes, just beneath the Downs.looney said:
Lord Bracknell
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pronounced Simson - but not these days, sadly.beorhthelm said:no, Firle is just down the road from Selmeston.
Lord Bracknell
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Only if you start from Heighton Street (pronounced Hayton Street) and travel via Laughton (pronounced Lawton).looney said:
Van der Gully
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Never heard Chichester being called Chiddester before, we always referred to it as "Chi"
Think you might all be correct about the word twitten, there is an alley opposite the house I grew up in Storrington and we called it that, had never thought that it was a word peculiar to Sussex but have had the same dumb-struck looks from "foreigners" whenever I have used it.
Think you might all be correct about the word twitten, there is an alley opposite the house I grew up in Storrington and we called it that, had never thought that it was a word peculiar to Sussex but have had the same dumb-struck looks from "foreigners" whenever I have used it.
Lord Bracknell
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Related to the Cuckmere question ...
Why Uckfield, not Ookfield? Why Cookfield, not Cuckfield?
Why Uckfield, not Ookfield? Why Cookfield, not Cuckfield?
Lord Bracknell said:
My bruv (Selmestone CC Captain) calls is Sel-meh-stun ?