Pronunciation watch

[Lateralthinking1]

Re Halfordos, do you say fall-con (as in fall) or fal-con (as in pal)?

And what about tooth and room - tuhth or toooooooth? ruhm or rooooom?

Is that RP or regional? I don't know.

I say "fall-con" and "toooooooth".

I would hear something regional in fal-con and tuhth. At the same time, there is possibly a touch of ordinary Londoner in the former and you would hear them on the streets elsewhere in the South too. They are probably encompassed by RP but true RP might be between the two? Instinctively I feel that RP is about precision rather than accentuating vowels or variation but I could be wrong.

I think Halfords is different. I hear American style branding.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Thank you scb for the location. A further case in point - the Gillinghams. Another banana skin in East Anglia as is its way.

Saying "Doncarster", "Newcarstle", etc felt ridiculous. However, to go the whole way and attempt an authentic northern pronunciation sounded affected or mocking. The answer was to find a middle way with some words - "Doncarster" did not become "Doncasster" but "Donnncaster" with the accent on the "Don" and the "a" part very clipped. That's in my language even today.

"Newcastle" was different. They accentuate the middle syllable so much. Generally I then did the same although when south I reverted to the southern way. It is "Newcarstle" again now but once you've been there, it seems wrong. It isn't its proper name.

In both Newcastle and Doncaster, different people pronounce them in different ways. NEWcassel - almost never, but in Gosforth and Longbenton, you will hear many saying NEWcarssle, but most Geordies will say NewCASSEL.

In Doncaster, they just call it Donny.

[french frank]

Good explanation of the Scottish so-called 'z', further similar examples being Culzean ('Cullane') and capercailzie (now often capercaillie).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If we all spoke with a Scottish accent, all woodwind players might be able to flutter tongue.

[eighthobstruction]

If we all spoke with a Bristolian accent....there would be no need for wah wahrr pedals....

....a terribly debilitating accent when it comes to pronuciation and resulting spellings....[I should know]....

[An_Inspector_Calls]

Yes, ['baŋgor] not ['baŋə].

I don't think so. Referring to the town, you'd say Banga (emphasis on the first syllable). Talking about y bangor (the stockade around the cathedral from which its name) you'd say y bangore.

[Serial_Apologist]

If we all spoke with a Bristolian accent....there would be no need for wah wahrr pedals....

....a terribly debilitating accent when it comes to pronuciation and resulting spellings....[I should know]....

Bangle

Or, how to get two whales in a car?

1) Take the right fork after Temple Meads,
or

2) Up the Gloss Trode past Patchway, left at the M4 and cross the Severn Bridge.

[Lateralthinking1]

In both Newcastle and Doncaster, different people pronounce them in different ways. NEWcassel - almost never, but in Gosforth and Longbenton, you will hear many saying NEWcarssle, but most Geordies will say NewCASSEL.

In Doncaster, they just call it Donny.

Yes, NewCASSEL was what I had in mind and it became my Northern pronunciation of it. It still felt very awkward but what is the answer to these things? I am aware of Donny for Doncaster as a football reference and also, during that era, Darlo for Darlington.

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, NewCASSEL was what I had in mind and it became my Northern pronunciation of it. It still felt very awkward. I am aware of Donny for Doncaster as a football reference and also, certainly during that era, Darlo for Darlington

The sign by the A1 read: Slow Children Crossing. Dad turned to Mum and said: "We're in Yorkshire now, dear".

[Lateralthinking1]

The sign by the A1 read: Slow Children Crossing. Dad turned to Mum and said: "We're in Yorkshire now, dear".

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The sign by the A1 read: Slow Children Crossing. Dad turned to Mum and said: "We're in Yorkshire now, dear".

Oooooh! The old ones are always the best!

[Serial_Apologist]

Oooooh! The old ones are always the best!

- But I was in the car when he said it!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I expect it was a very new joke then.

[french frank]

The sign by the A1 read: Slow Children Crossing.

A sign on Gloss Trode just a few weeks ago said:
SLOW WORKMEN
AHEAD
to which a literate Bristolian had inked in an appropriate apostrophe.

[Serial_Apologist]

A sign on Gloss Trode just a few weeks ago said:
SLOW WORKMEN
AHEAD
to which a literate Bristolian had inked in an appropriate apostrophe.

Then there's the "I" inserted between the two words TO LET

God and Chips

Congealed entrance

(I'm not proposing a new thread on this btw!)