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#1 baan_yangyai

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Posted 2006-02-14 20:30:47

Has any Brit. out there in TV-Land ever heard of the Pitmatic English accent? An American colleague of mine simply can't understand how or why there are so many variations in spoken English in Britain. I mentioned a few to him, like Scouse, Geordie, Cockney, Brummie etc. and gave him a few smatterings of each(I'm quite adept at it :o ) . I came across the Pitmatic accent by chance, and was wondering if anyone knows anythin about it?

Cheers!

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Posted 2006-02-14 20:32:47

I didnt know the english could speak there language! everb heard a brit say aluminum? :o

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Posted 2006-02-14 20:37:04

View PostWes Turner, on 2006-02-14 16:32:47, said:

I didnt know the english could speak there language! everb heard a brit say aluminum? :o

Ta v.much Wes Turner! Yes we certainly can! From your signature, I guess you're from Canada Eh?

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Posted 2006-02-14 20:40:49

View Postbaan_yangyai, on 2006-02-14 20:37:04, said:

View PostWes Turner, on 2006-02-14 16:32:47, said:

I didnt know the english could speak there language! everb heard a brit say aluminum? :o

Ta v.much Wes Turner! Yes we certainly can! From your signature, I guess you're from Canada Eh?

Yup and i still have some DOE left, some wonga!! alright mate, how isit hanging? :D :D :D

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Posted 2006-02-14 20:41:37

Can't say that I've ever heard of it.

I do know after living there, that Germany has over 200 different dialects, not just accents. People from Munich would be visiting the north of the country and, come into my restaurant. My waitresses would have no idea what they were saying when listening to them converse.


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Posted 2006-02-14 20:42:41

Did u mean Aluminium or Aluminum?

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Posted 2006-02-14 21:28:36

I'm from Ireland where you can experience 100s of different accents, UK is the same. I think it dates back to when our ancestors didn't travel (hardly at all) many people were born, lived and died in the same village and never ventured more than a few miles.

Other factors then started entering in when people started travelling, as Liverpool, which has a very distinct accent, was affected by the large Irish community. But in each case of development it was distinct merging with distinct, so the UK and Ireland still have a huge diversity of accents. Good, I say, it's all part of life's rich tapestry!

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Posted 2006-02-14 21:34:24

View Postbaan_yangyai, on 2006-02-14 20:30:47, said:

Has any Brit. out there in TV-Land ever heard of the Pitmatic English accent? An American colleague of mine simply can't understand how or why there are so many variations in spoken English in Britain. I mentioned a few to him, like Scouse, Geordie, Cockney, Brummie etc. and gave him a few smatterings of each(I'm quite adept at it :o ) . I came across the Pitmatic accent by chance, and was wondering if anyone knows anythin about it?

Cheers!


Could it be the English spoken on Pitcairn Island.(Descendants of the "Mutiny on the Bounty". )Apparently their English is like stepping back 150b years.They commonly use words like shalt, thou etc...

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Posted 2006-02-14 21:38:58

View Postchuchok, on 2006-02-14 14:34:24, said:

View Postbaan_yangyai, on 2006-02-14 20:30:47, said:

Has any Brit. out there in TV-Land ever heard of the Pitmatic English accent? An American colleague of mine simply can't understand how or why there are so many variations in spoken English in Britain. I mentioned a few to him, like Scouse, Geordie, Cockney, Brummie etc. and gave him a few smatterings of each(I'm quite adept at it :o ) . I came across the Pitmatic accent by chance, and was wondering if anyone knows anythin about it?

Cheers!


Could it be the English spoken on Pitcairn Island.(Descendants of the "Mutiny on the Bounty". )Apparently their English is like stepping back 150b years.They commonly use words like shalt, thou etc...


I'll sithee later, up ower till ower yonder.. (I'll see you later, over the hill over there.)

They still speak like that up in the Yorkshire Dales too.



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Posted 2006-02-14 22:04:04

Who the Fluck cares.....talk about it in an English forum



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Posted 2006-02-14 22:16:37

Pitmatic (originally "pitmatical") is a dialect of English used in the counties of Northumberland and Durham. It developed as a separate dialect from Northumbrian and Geordie due to the specialised terms used by mineworkers in the local coal pits. For example, in Northumberland and Tyne and Wear the word "Cuddy" is an abbreviation of the name Cuthbert (particularly the local saint, Cuthbert of Lindisfarne), but in Durham Pitmatic, as in Lowland Scots, "cuddy" denotes a horse, specifically a pit pony.

Traditionally, pitmatic, together with some rural Northumbrian communities including Rothbury, used a distinctive, soft, rolled "R" sound, produced at the very back of the throat. This is now less frequently heard: since the closure of the area's deep mines, and the subsequent dilution of the area's identity, many young people speak in a more generic "Geordie-like" way. The softly throaty "R" sound can, however, still sometimes be detected, especially amongst elderly populations in more rural areas.

While in theory pitmatic was spoken throughout the Great Northern Coalfield, from Ashington in Northumberland to Trimdon in County Durham, early references apply specifically to its use by miners "especially from the Durham district" (1873) and to its use in County Durham (1930).

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Posted 2006-02-14 22:53:38

View Postredrus, on 2006-02-14 14:38:58, said:

View Postchuchok, on 2006-02-14 14:34:24, said:

View Postbaan_yangyai, on 2006-02-14 20:30:47, said:

Has any Brit. out there in TV-Land ever heard of the Pitmatic English accent? An American colleague of mine simply can't understand how or why there are so many variations in spoken English in Britain. I mentioned a few to him, like Scouse, Geordie, Cockney, Brummie etc. and gave him a few smatterings of each(I'm quite adept at it :o ) . I came across the Pitmatic accent by chance, and was wondering if anyone knows anythin about it?

Cheers!


Could it be the English spoken on Pitcairn Island.(Descendants of the "Mutiny on the Bounty". )Apparently their English is like stepping back 150b years.They commonly use words like shalt, thou etc...


I'll sithee later, up ower till ower yonder.. (I'll see you later, over the hill over there.)

They still speak like that up in the Yorkshire Dales too.



redrus

I was in my car giving a co-worker a lift in, he was from south Yorkshire whilst talking about the long distances covered driving he said to me -

'ow long did it taake thee to come hither from Lancashire?'

I've studied a bit of olde english before but but hearing it said like that made me think it was from the medieval man of the 1400s!

I was unsure what he was trying ask at first even though all the words would be recognised written down by most english folk (and dare I say it, a few yanks!) I asked him to repeat it and he switched to modern english, although he then said 'ow long did it take you to come 'ere!'

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Posted 2006-02-14 23:01:53

All you have to do is draw a line across England just below Brum and then all those above the line talk funny versions of English and those below the line speak correct English :o

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Posted 2006-02-14 23:12:32

View PostJimsKnight, on 2006-02-14 15:53:38, said:

View Postredrus, on 2006-02-14 14:38:58, said:

View Postchuchok, on 2006-02-14 14:34:24, said:

View Postbaan_yangyai, on 2006-02-14 20:30:47, said:

Has any Brit. out there in TV-Land ever heard of the Pitmatic English accent? An American colleague of mine simply can't understand how or why there are so many variations in spoken English in Britain. I mentioned a few to him, like Scouse, Geordie, Cockney, Brummie etc. and gave him a few smatterings of each(I'm quite adept at it :o ) . I came across the Pitmatic accent by chance, and was wondering if anyone knows anythin about it?

Cheers!


Could it be the English spoken on Pitcairn Island.(Descendants of the "Mutiny on the Bounty". )Apparently their English is like stepping back 150b years.They commonly use words like shalt, thou etc...


I'll sithee later, up ower till ower yonder.. (I'll see you later, over the hill over there.)

They still speak like that up in the Yorkshire Dales too.



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I was in my car giving a co-worker a lift in, he was from south Yorkshire whilst talking about the long distances covered driving he said to me -

'ow long did it taake thee to come hither from Lancashire?'


My Grandad (who was from North Derbyshire) used to talk like that all the time.

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Posted 2006-02-14 23:21:37

View Postbaan_yangyai, on 2006-02-14 20:37:04, said:

Ta v.much Wes Turner! ...
From 'up North', are we? :D

View Postredrus, on 2006-02-14 20:41:37, said:

I do know after living there, that Germany has over 200 different dialects, not just accents. People from Munich would be visiting the north of the country and, come into my restaurant. My waitresses would have no idea what they were saying when listening to them converse.


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That's right... :D


View Postbaan_yangyai, on 2006-02-14 20:42:41, said:

Did u mean Aluminium or Aluminum?
Aluminum, of course. What is Aluminium??? :D

View Postdaleyboy, on 2006-02-14 23:01:53, said:

All you have to do is draw a line across England just below Brum and then all those above the line talk funny versions of English and those below the line speak correct English :o
And I thought it was Watford... :D

Edited by zzap, 2006-02-14 23:24:47.


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Posted 2006-02-14 23:39:47

View Postdaleyboy, on 2006-02-14 23:01:53, said:

All you have to do is draw a line across England just below Brum and then all those above the line talk funny versions of English and those below the line speak correct English :o

:D :D :D :D :D :D

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Posted 2006-02-15 00:17:11

View Postbaan_yangyai, on 2006-02-14 20:30:47, said:

Has any Brit. out there in TV-Land ever heard of the Pitmatic English accent? An American colleague of mine simply can't understand how or why there are so many variations in spoken English in Britain. I mentioned a few to him, like Scouse, Geordie, Cockney, Brummie etc. and gave him a few smatterings of each(I'm quite adept at it :o ) . I came across the Pitmatic accent by chance, and was wondering if anyone knows anythin about it?

Cheers!
I am surprised your yank friend was surprised. We here in America have more accents than we know what to do with, so why shouldn't the UK?

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Posted 2006-02-15 00:27:25

Well, the uk accents are regional ones, not those of immigrants who struggle to learn the language...

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Posted 2006-02-15 00:30:14

I actually think that non-brits are amazed that the UK has such a range of accents because it's so small, by comparison to so many other places I mean.

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Posted 2006-02-15 00:46:27

View Postzzap, on 2006-02-15 00:27:25, said:

Well, the uk accents are regional ones, not those of immigrants who struggle to learn the language...
You think that is what makes up American accents? New York(all five barrows are different) and New Jersey have their own accents as does BeanTown and Chicago, Mid-west, deep south, Georgia and the Carolinas, The Cheese state and the Land of 10,000 Lakes speak with the same accents. All of this by english speakers.

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Posted 2006-02-15 01:00:35

View Postdaleyboy, on 2006-02-14 16:01:53, said:

All you have to do is draw a line across England just below Brum and then all those above the line talk funny versions of English and those below the line speak correct English :o

Your just gutted rkid that your not a Manc, I fink your just a proper closet Manc in disguise :D

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Posted 2006-02-15 01:02:07

I am sorry, i guess this exposes my ignorance. :o

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Posted 2006-02-15 01:05:53

View Postbaan_yangyai, on 2006-02-14 14:30:47, said:

Has any Brit. out there in TV-Land ever heard of the Pitmatic English accent? An American colleague of mine simply can't understand how or why there are so many variations in spoken English in Britain. I mentioned a few to him, like Scouse, Geordie, Cockney, Brummie etc. and gave him a few smatterings of each(I'm quite adept at it :o ) . I came across the Pitmatic accent by chance, and was wondering if anyone knows anythin about it?

Cheers!


Why it ow I speak bonny lad (or used to with the dialect as well but only the accent now)

It comes from Northumberland and Durham coalfields

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Posted 2006-02-15 01:10:01

View Postzzap, on 2006-02-15 01:02:07, said:

I am sorry, i guess this exposes my ignorance. :o
No harm done, now ya know. :D

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Posted 2006-02-15 01:11:07

Think how they speak in Billy Elliott the movie or now the musical

It was set in my home town.

S'funny now as my sister lives in a 250,000GBP house built on the site of one of coal mines that shut in the early 90's - at that time you could get an aaprtment in the town for well under 10,000GBP



 


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