Accents

[alanjjohnstone]

According to this test, i speak like a Mackem….just shows again…never trust the BBC

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180205-which-british-accent-is-closest-to-your-own

[Bijou Drains]

alanjjohnstone wrote:

According to this test, i speak like a Mackem….just shows again…never trust the BBChttp://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180205-which-british-accent-is-closest-to-your-own

Just took the test and worryingly, so do I!!!!

[Major McPharter]

Bijou Drains wrote:

alanjjohnstone wrote:

According to this test, i speak like a Mackem….just shows again…never trust the BBChttp://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180205-which-british-accent-is-closest-to-your-own

Just took the test and worryingly, so do I!!!!

Blimey have you got a sunderland Top in your wardrobe?

[PJShannon]

It got me bang to rights as from Glasgow. Yet a lot of people don't think I sound Glaswegian.

[alanjjohnstone]

I did it again and substituted skelf, another word i use for splinter and it got this Edinburgh person sounding like a Weegie…duh

[ALB]

I ended up too as from Sunderland just because I prononced "scone" as like "gone" rather than "bone" as when I did it again and said it like "bone" I ended up speaking like Hugh Grant.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/news/survey-reveals-correct-way-to-pronounce-scone/.Isn't there something in their bible about those who said "sibboleth" and those who say "shibboleth". Can't remember which lot got slaughtered. I think it was those who said "scon".

[alien1]

me too – totally traumatised now!

[Bijou Drains]

alanjjohnstone wrote:

I did it again and substituted skelf, another word i use for splinter and it got this Edinburgh person sounding like a Weegie…duh

That's odd, because the Geordie/Mackem work for a splinter is a spelk.If anyone wants to tell the differences between Geordies and mackems, there are lots, but the most obvious ones are that mackems drop their h's Geordies don't, Mackems put w's in certain words for instance Book becomes bewk and cook becomes cewk, get them to say super dooper computer, it comes out as Sewper Dewper compewter. Gerodies say Divvent for don't Mackems say Daent. Also Geordies have passports and Mackems don't (no European football since 1973!)

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