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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Not heard anyone calling petrol “gas” around here as yet :)
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The Accy accent is definitely changing, innit.
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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.;)
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The Accy accent definitely has more of a Polish twang to it these days.
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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The only difference I can see between "gas" and "petrol" is that gas is a helluva lot cheaper;)
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the accent isnt changing its just peoples inability to speak english thats the problem
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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"
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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
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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. |
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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.
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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 |
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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 |
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When Americans mention gas I thought they were referring to the cause of flatulence.
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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. |
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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.
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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:
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