Us or Uz and other British accents.
I'm listening to the BBC (radio 6). And I'm hearing something I've heard quite often from broadcasting types, especially on the BBC. Why to people say uz instead of us, it annoys me. Which part of the UK does it come from? I know that uz is said each sides of the penines. but the people on the beeb sound far from being from up tut north.
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Of course I am from up north :))
If I go off on a rant at work or something everybody just looks really worried, and confused, cos' they can see I'm annoyed, but I revert back to broad Geordie. You'd think I was yelling at them in Japanese and actually waving a Katana around while doing so :))
Of course I am from up north :))
Often a mystery accent, as the majority of the UK appear to believe the black-country accent is "Brummie".
Ok, just me then
Or they have a Tuth ache, but all will be resolved when Commet 4413 arrives in the summer, Birmingham will be a distant memory, ha,ha,ha,ah,ha,ha..............................( in my best villain voice ) !.
I used to have a girlfriend from there, she used to boast about having one brain cell, which apparently is one more than most, I hear. :)
Just think as you read these words your hear a voice - that voice makes meaning from the concepts these very words represent - it amazes and amuses me that these words were passed down to us from our parents, and their parents and their greater ancestors - thousands of years of evolved speech through thoughts made manifest into sound.
I could geek out for days on language - the notion that a lump of organic matter - utters into existence a physical presence (sound waves) from an arbitrary concept of its own universe... it truly amazes me because we are all empowered by language and ironically our thinking is shackled by it too =)
My favourite one was work colleagues who kept saying "I am thinking on my feet" (ie along the lines of " aren't I great quick thinking fellow chaps?"); this "came over" in the local accent as "Oi'm thinking Oi'm Effete"
I used to annoy them by deliberately misunderstanding them and reply with "Now we can't have you thinking that you are EFFETE can we? (in a very patronizing "Prince Charles" kinda way!). At this point there was an instant demand for a dictionnary : yes this reply definitely worked!
I got two people promoted to manager by stealing an idea from me and touting it as their own !
then they'd be from Wales shirley :)
Even stranger, in the 30s a load of Scots were relocated to Corby to start up the steel works (it closed in the 80s), and there are still annual highland games and thick Weegie accents and growly old unintelligible grannies shuffling around the discount shops in the centre of town. But what's really weird is that the outlying villages around Corby pick up their own sort of border/northern accent where they come out with 'gras' (to rhyme with 'gas') rather than 'grarse' (grass) and 'kassel' instead of 'carsel' (castle).
Anyway, why can't Americans say 'news' - it's always 'nooz'?
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I am also fascinated by local words and phrases.
Mrs Murt was brought up in a village about 7 miles from mine, but she [being in Leicestershire] would have "got a coggy to the reccy" * whereas I [being in Derbyshire] would have "got a backy to the rec" *. but we would have both bought "an oaky from the oakyman" *
*translations availble on request.
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oh, tha from my backyard then eh? Derbyshire, right next to sheffield that is
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Right at the other [south] end tho'
I cant count the number of times I've moaned at Mrs Scottie_UK for that.
if you are old enough to remember sheena easten and how she sounded scottish in the 80's.. her accent now from living in the states is really err "different"
Only possible if you'd replaced the standard racer handle bars with cow horns.
It's a jitty, round here.
I grew up on the outskirts of Birmingham, and moved to Somerset - so I get to enjoy the two greatest English accents and idioms.
I used to go drinking with one lad who was from up't north, Barnsley, Leeds or Outer Mongolia as far as I care, but when I first met him I caught the tail end of a conversation in which he was talking about Cork. It took me a good ten minutes to realise he was talking about Coke :))
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ah, phew