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mmsood99 27-08-2008 17:22

Is the Accy accent changing?
 
Alright, I admit I am 20 years out date (been living in the USA), but I'm always suprised at the creepring Americana I alsways run across when I'm back in England (or on these boards for that matter).

I don't remember people commonly using the words 20+ years ago

guy - meaning bloke or chap
gas - meaning petrol
"like" - as a pause in sentences (he was, like, really cool)
cool - meaning great or wonderful

I am imagining things?

Drew

Eric 27-08-2008 17:26

Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by mmsood99 (Post 623621)
Alright, I admit I am 20 years out date (been living in the USA), but I'm always suprised at the creepring Americana I alsways run across when I'm back in England (or on these boards for that matter).

I don't remember people commonly using the words 20+ years ago

guy - meaning bloke or chap
gas - meaning petrol
"like" - as a pause in sentences (he was, like, really cool)
cool - meaning great or wonderful

I am imagining things?

Drew

Jeesh ... Use those words all the time myself ... have done for years .... ;)

mani 27-08-2008 17:41

Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
 
its all to do with the popularity of american shows

most notably friends. thats been one of the biggest influences all across the world - u can pick up alot of the words and mannerisms from people which were featured on the show

could you BE any more boring?

i dunno about gas though. i've never heard ppl sayin that.

alot of the humour on tv's now is very americanised.

Gayle 27-08-2008 17:44

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Just because the words have changed doesn't mean the accent has.

I was near Lancaster a few weeks ago and started talking to a chap who was doing some filming - he listened to me for a few minutes and then said 'Gt Harwood?' - I said, 'not far off, how can you tell' - he said 'park' - it was the way I said it.

Bonnyboy 27-08-2008 17:50

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Not heard anyone calling petrol “gas” around here as yet :)

yerself 27-08-2008 17:51

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The Accy accent is definitely changing, innit.

cashman 27-08-2008 17:51

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don't think accent is changing, more words that people pick up from wherever, but i'm still as broad as i always was.;)

shakermaker 27-08-2008 17:57

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The Accy accent definitely has more of a Polish twang to it these days.

maxwell silver 27-08-2008 17:59

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Feel personally that the accent has a more definitive asian/traveller/east european lilt to it.A lot of the time i think we don't speak accringtonian anymore.I know sometimes i don't type in it.:D

cashman 27-08-2008 18:05

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Originally Posted by maxwell silver (Post 623653)
.A lot of the time i think we don't speak accringtonian anymore.I know sometimes i don't type in it.:D

nah me neither maxwell, then i get told by some i'm nasty n insulting.:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

Eric 27-08-2008 18:57

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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 623647)
don't think accent is changing, more words that people pick up from wherever, but i'm still as broad as i always was.;)

C'mon Cashy you aint no broad;)

Bob Dobson 27-08-2008 19:16

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Just as people mistake accent for dialect, the originator of this thread is mistaking the content of speech for accent. Several of those posting have said this . I agree too that a good test is to listen how we say' car park'.

We've getten culture - wi' a capital 'k'. Ah know - Ah wer born an'bred in Accrington . You can't BUY class.

blazey 27-08-2008 19:35

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I was talking to a professor of linguistics one night in the college bar at uni and he knew quite a bit about the lancashire accent and how it differs from town to town and he was fascinated by my accent and was interested by the differences.

For example, the O in town, down, frown is pronounced differently in ossy/accy to darwen. My friends from Darwen used to laugh at me for it all the time (til I corrected myself!)

I think the accent in accy is changing a bit. My little sister has an accent that I can't even copy, though this may be due to my own accent changing since moving away to uni and being around so many different people.

I still hear people saying the usual accy things though like neht, reyt, tehn when I am at home, so I think it is the same but it may be getting a bit milder. The words we use have changed (though I too have never heard anyone say gas for fuel) but that is to be expected as we become more influenced by TV and the internet and such.

Eric 27-08-2008 19:38

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The only difference I can see between "gas" and "petrol" is that gas is a helluva lot cheaper;)

accyman 27-08-2008 20:20

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the accent isnt changing its just peoples inability to speak english thats the problem

WillowTheWhisp 27-08-2008 21:51

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I've never heard anyone in England refer to petrol as gas but a few American words are creeping in. One thing I have noticed locally is the increasing absence of the letter "t" in words. When I was younger milk came in bottles. Now it comes in "boh'ulls" or even "cahr'ons" Small ones are referred to as "Lih'uw"

Royboy39 27-08-2008 21:53

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp (Post 623851)
I've never heard anyone in England refer to petrol as gas but a few American words are creeping in. One thing I have noticed locally is the increasing absence of the letter "t" in words. When I was younger milk came in bottles. Now it comes in "boh'ulls" or even "cahr'ons" Small ones are referred to as "Lih'uw"

Not in my world.....English will do for me.

jaysay 28-08-2008 10:37

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Well my accent has changed and I don't seem to use americanisms either, to me gas is something you cook with not put in your car:D

MargaretR 28-08-2008 10:48

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When you return home from USA with your accquired american twang, you will find that we, being polite and hospitable, will use the words that you understand, and avoid those that you won't. This doesn't mean that our language has changed - just that we are accommodating your lack of knowledge of ours (language).

When I had a penfriend in Montana, I wearied of explaining that a fortnight is 2 weeks, and that holidays are vacations and not just Christmas.

entwisi 28-08-2008 11:50

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mani (Post 623634)

i dunno about gas though. i've never heard ppl sayin that.

I do but then again I really do mean gas! :D

Nori Brick 28-08-2008 13:59

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I don't see how an accent can change, the only thing that has changed is the slang, I,v noticed there is a lot more americen slang used today then there was when I was growing up.

keetah992000 28-08-2008 14:40

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I think the way that people talk has changed - I dont know if it is the accent or as has been mentioned different use of slang -
I remember my elderly neighbours and how they used to talk it was what you would call broad lol
cup o'tai
goin ower t'hill
not many people talk like this in accrington now ( that i know of anyway ) but it did used to be "the norm"
as for petrol being called gas - some people do actually use gas not petrol.
so i dont know maybe it has changed over the years

accyman 28-08-2008 14:55

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Nori Brick (Post 624142)
I don't see how an accent can change, the only thing that has changed is the slang, I,v noticed there is a lot more americen slang used today then there was when I was growing up.

yup our accent hasnt changed its just the words we use , this becomes more eveident if you jump over the boarder into yorkshire where they look at us funny because we pronounce 1 as beging with a W like won and they pronounce it with a U like wun

we still sound the same we just use different words like we dont use terms like "put woodt int ole" any more

if TV effected accents we woudl all be speaking like scousers with all teh scouse TV we were subjected to not so long ago like brookie and harry enfields calm down calm down lot lol

yerself 28-08-2008 23:46

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When Americans mention gas I thought they were referring to the cause of flatulence.

Padiham Lass 29-08-2008 05:02

Re: Is the Accy accent changing?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by mmsood99 (Post 623621)
I don't remember people commonly using the words 20+ years ago

guy - meaning bloke or chap
gas - meaning petrol
"like" - as a pause in sentences (he was, like, really cool)
cool - meaning great or wonderful

guy - regularly use guy over bloke or chap, but probably use bloke more when back in Lancs.
gas - never use or hear used
like - not as in "he was, like, really cool" (that's, like, really annoying) more as in "you know like, he was really cool, like"
cool - I'm cool with that.

Eric 29-08-2008 05:11

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Something that Canadians don't have is a variety of regional accents, unlike the English or, to a somewhat lesser extent, the Americans. The only distinctively different accents are those in the Maritime Provinces, particularly Newfoundland and Labrador, and Cape Breton. In most of the rest of Canada there is sort of a homogenised accent. I could not differentiate between a British Columbian and a Manitoban to save my life. Quebecois, of course, speak French; but it is a French with uniquely Canadian qualities.

Eric 29-08-2008 05:12

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Something that Canadians don't have is a variety of regional accents, unlike the English or, to a somewhat lesser extent, the Americans. The only distinctively different accents are those in the Maritime Provinces, particularly Newfoundland and Labrador, and Cape Breton. In most of the rest of Canada there is sort of a homogenised accent. I could not differentiate between a British Columbian and a Manitoban to save my life. Quebecois, of course, speak French; but it is a French with uniquely Canadian qualities.:confused:

Eric 29-08-2008 05:13

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Oops ... did I really do that?


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