Bloodheart
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12 Apr 2011, 9:37 pm
I thought as we are all from different places around the world, and as many of us enjoy languages, it might be interesting to try a thread sharing our local dialects such as common phrases or sayings, and a little information on our local accents. The idea came to me after watching a video of hale_bopp (the kitty video =^_^=) and my boyfriend commenting that he somehow knew what her accent would be before he had heard her speak.
Technically speaking I am a Geordie - from Newcastle, North East England - although I don't tend to define myself as one that often and don't have a strong Geordie accent, but apparently have a far stronger accent then I realise. The dialect interests me because it sounds so totally foreign when you hear it from someone who speaks broad Geordie, and I also like that our accent is quite guttural, similar to that of a German accent...after only a few months/years it's almost impossible to tell a German from a fellow Geordie.
A nice non-threatening Geordie as an example, Mr Ross Noble 
(long hair) and Mr Alexander Armstrong;
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hItBcnefOiw[/youtube]
Geordie: Wey aye
English: Yes, or general enthusiastic agreement.
Geordie: Y'areet, hinny?
English: Are you all right, darling?
Geordie: Ahm gannin hyem (my personal favourite)
English: I'm going home
Geordie: Ye knaa what ah mean leik.
English: Do you know what I mean?
Geordie: Divn't
English: Don't
English/Geordie translator - http://www.geordie.org.uk
Blaydon Races (with lyrics);
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrMaVjHS74[/youtube]
12 Apr 2011, 9:54 pm
13 Apr 2011, 5:19 am
13 Apr 2011, 5:27 am
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws70oI3yMBc[/youtube]
"Ingrediment".
She's funny.
I won't post anything on mine, you can hear it in any movie or TV show from the US.
Bloodheart, I love the Geordie dialect.
Ross Noble is great on QI. 
13 Apr 2011, 6:13 am
13 Apr 2011, 6:21 am
13 Apr 2011, 6:23 am
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr9ekTf0xc[/youtube]
Or, perhaps, Jim Bowen (I briefly saw him in his local!):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smr3hPpnaiY[/youtube]
…in fact, I speak more like that than Peter Kay.
Then you don't win Bullys special prize!
13 Apr 2011, 6:44 am
Although I live in a major metropolitan area in north Texas, there are a lot of people in the area who have a sort of country drawl. Still, there's a lot of people who don't. Arlington in many ways is a mesh up of different kinds of people.
Here's a video of people at Six Flags Over Texas - which is in Arlington. It was Gay Day that day, so I hope nobody minds. 
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpQAYXqMsHc[/youtube]
CockneyRebel
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13 Apr 2011, 6:47 am
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CockneyRebel
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13 Apr 2011, 6:57 am
13 Apr 2011, 6:59 am
I would, if I knew how to make them.
Got a webcam? If not, you need a webcam and then you can upload what you've filmed to youtube. Oh maybe you can film it on a mobile phone and then transfer it via a usb cable to your computer and then upload it to youtube.
It could be complicated.
Starlight-Supernova
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13 Apr 2011, 7:49 am
My accent is Stopfordian but since I live near Manchester I guess I can show you how people sound.
Gordon/Wythenshawe accents put things like -AUH (pronounced like an orgasmic ah! but lower toned) at the end of things like Air Freshen-auh, an example would be on Shameless.
Rochdale accents tend to drag the words in a nasely manner. Coronation Streets Janice is from Rochdale.
Stockport (where I'm from), sounds pretty neutral if I do say so myself....the guy in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Chrisp (Gary) is pretty much our voice.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YPNRDzTuX8[/youtube]
First voice is Gary
@CockneyRebel: When I think of Cockney I think of Del Boy and Harry Redknapp.
@Tequila: You from Bolton 
!?!
13 Apr 2011, 7:58 am
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13 Apr 2011, 8:00 am
JeremyNJ1984
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13 Apr 2011, 8:00 am
