Originally Posted by [email protected] (Post 516600)

Why do people from Yorkshire pronounce it 'Yarkshire'?

Originally Posted by harwood red (Post 516594)

I have to agree with you there, I get the Mickey taken out of me for my 'O's too... Words like Tesco, coat, coke. I say them completely different to anyone round here!! :o:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by mallard (Post 516620)

Hey there,s now,t up with a pair drop,they was right good, but up here in ossy we use,t to like jam butty,s and i still eat them.

Originally Posted by katex (Post 516632)

Well HR .. :D the thing is us Lancashire folk are not very good at diphthongs ya' see .. our dialect is made up of very flat vowels.

Coat should not be pronounced as .. cawt, but as cohut .. not quite correct, but no pronunciation symbols available, words like day turn into daaa not dayi .. oh hek, so difficult in text :D Sure you understand. Worst culprit is words like 'like'. Have noticed that you have very strong verbal diphthongs in your accent and can understand the confusion, but hell, as long as we all understand each other what does it matter... :D

Sure the ref. understands exactly what you mean when you shout Dumbo or summat .. LOL