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Pronounciation

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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It's weird...why do people prononuce things differntly? I know people have differnt accents and that, but like my mum says certain words differntly to how i would say them! Its the same word, and we both have the same 'accents' so really the word sholud sound the same.

*hmmm* Graph - grarph or graff? wednesday - wednesday or wednesdee?

Bleh...Im bored *Lalala* :p

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ho hum, I might be able to answer this later, but I don't have the time just now. Meh. :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Fine :p
    Well actually, i werent expecting anyone to answer the question, i thought people might just add words that get pronounced differntly...oh i dunno! :D

    Im bored!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It hacks me off when people put extra rs into words:

    For example

    bath becomes barth
    plaster becomes plarster

    :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Van The Man
    It hacks me off when people put extra rs into words:

    For example

    bath becomes barth
    plaster becomes plarster

    :)

    I say barth and plarster...weird cos when someone says bath it dont sound right!...Northeners' talk! lol :p

    *Dont hit me*
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Young and sexy
    Northeners' talk! lol :p

    <---- Northerners?

    Cockney commoners and public school twits more like!



    *don't hit me either, I'm trying to have a joke!*
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    southerners extend their 'A's a bit.

    southerners say baarstard
    northernerns (me) say bastad
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    there are loads of different ways of saying stuff...it doesnt always depend on where you come from ie accents, it also makes a difference as to who you hear talking in certain ways cause you pick up on stuff real easy. its a bit like colloquialisms. if someone you like says a word that you like you pick up on it and say it and so with accents and ways of saying words, if you think something sounds nice then you say it like that.
    The Silly String
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wednesday and grarph........
    :)
    is that not correct way of pronouncing them?
    hmm regional accents sometimes relay annoy me/..
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by sillystring
    there are loads of different ways of saying stuff...it doesnt always depend on where you come from ie accents, it also makes a difference as to who you hear talking in certain ways cause you pick up on stuff real easy. its a bit like colloquialisms. if someone you like says a word that you like you pick up on it and say it and so with accents and ways of saying words, if you think something sounds nice then you say it like that.
    The Silly String

    Yeh true! Still quite strange though, how differnt people pronouce the same wors differntly...
    southeners tend to extend their A's a bit
    Thats what i do :D i think...!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Pepsi_104
    wednesday and grarph........
    :)

    Wahay! wednesday and grarph is correct. 1 brownie point :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wedensday and graff. And there's nothing wrong with my way of prounouncing.. For things like graph it's the right way - words shouldn't have extra Rs. Also things like "words" are prounounced WITH an r!! It's words, not wuhds.

    *sulks*
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: Pronounciation
    Originally posted by Young and sexy
    wednesday - wednesday or wednesdee?

    Um, does noone else actually say Wensday like me then??
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: Re: Pronounciation
    Originally posted by Miffy


    Um, does noone else actually say Wensday like me then??

    I doooo! Kinda forgot to type that ooops :rolleyes: :p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    You should try living here and trying to understand the accent around here.

    Nerz kern = the pointy bit of a rocket.
    Kerka-curler = a popular fizzy brown drink.
    Perp = The leader of the catholic church.
    Rerm = The capital of Italy.
    Fern curl = A telecommunicatioins conversation.

    Me, I come from Gloucestershire, which is close to Sommerset and Wiltshire, and I've been told I have a slight accent like a farmer! :(

    Mr_git-orfa-moi-land_Wobble ;)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Mr_Wobble
    You should try living here and trying to understand the accent around here.

    Nerz kern = the pointy bit of a rocket.
    Kerka-curler = a popular fizzy brown drink.
    Perp = The leader of the catholic church.
    Rerm = The capital of Italy.
    Fern curl = A telecommunicatioins conversation.

    Me, I come from Gloucestershire, which is close to Sommerset and Wiltshire, and I've been told I have a slight accent like a farmer! :(

    Mr_git-orfa-moi-land_Wobble ;)

    it's been a long time since i lived in the country. boy, do those pronounciations bring back memories.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Apparently I speak like the queen :eek2: I talk really stupid posh ... like when I say 'immature' I say it like a posh twat. I hate my posh accent.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Mr_Wobble
    Me, I come from Gloucestershire, which is close to Sommerset and Wiltshire, and I've been told I have a slight accent like a farmer! :(

    Mr_git-orfa-moi-land_Wobble ;)

    *cough* Alroight Mr Wabble? Oi cam frum Wiltshure and Oi get called a carrot cruncher orl the toime.
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    littlemissylittlemissy Posts: 9,972 Supreme Poster
    think that english people add extra "r"s in words. my friend did linguistics and im sure he said that was the case.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Young and sexy


    Wahay! wednesday and grarph is correct. 1 brownie point :D
    yay me! erm yeah imeant wensday..............:) what fool says wdnesday?! hmm dont answer im sure there's someone
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Pepsi_104

    yay me! erm yeah imeant wensday..............:) what fool says wdnesday?! hmm dont answer im sure there's someone

    Yeah, my piano teacher used to for a start.... :rolleyes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    hmm. I always though i just had a normal yorks/lancs cross accent, till last night when a lad i hadnt seen for about 6/7 years said my accent has gone really posh. I'm assuming thats posh for yorkshire, rather than posh posh though!

    Hmm, graff (well, more commonly grath since i always mix up my "f"s and "th"s) and wensday, and skon, while we're at it!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Miffy


    *cough* Alroight Mr Wabble? Oi cam frum Wiltshure and Oi get called a carrot cruncher orl the toime.
    Yarrrr, oi be allroight. Owzz a'baat yurself? :)
    Luckily I don't have a very strong accent, and it's only the odd word that comes out in a Gloucestershire accent. An ex, from Yorkshire, always used to laugh at the way I'd pronounce some words. :mad: She didn't seem to realise how funny some of her pronounciations sounded. :rolleyes:

    Mr_Wobble ;)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by faerielights
    hmm. I always though i just had a normal yorks/lancs cross accent, till last night when a lad i hadnt seen for about 6/7 years said my accent has gone really posh. I'm assuming thats posh for yorkshire, rather than posh posh though!
    The ex I've just mentioned above moved around a lot between Manchester, Halifax, and Peterborough, when she was growing up. Everybody in Peterborough thought she had a broad accent, wheras everybody in Halifax thought she had a posh southern accent. Her accent was definitely Yorkshire(ish) though.

    Mr_Wobble ;)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    People always seem to associate posh with the south.

    Some of my friends in Bradford think that everyone from Southampton will speak like me...hmm...but they don't.
    Even my parents don't :confused:

    :lol: at Mr_Wobble's description.

    I always pronounced Wednesday as wensday.
    Doesn't everyone?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    All Brits have a weird pronounciation!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by faerielights
    hmm. I always though i just had a normal yorks/lancs cross accent, till last night when a lad i hadnt seen for about 6/7 years said my accent has gone really posh. I'm assuming thats posh for yorkshire, rather than posh posh though!

    Hmm, graff (well, more commonly grath since i always mix up my "f"s and "th"s) and wensday, and skon, while we're at it!

    Oh no :no: thats where your wrong :p Definately skone :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Definately Grarph and graaaass. I bloody well speak properly, when people say like graff I just think, speak properly!!!!!!!!! (only when its annoying townies though)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Silverberg
    Definately Grarph and graaaass. I bloody well speak properly, when people say like graff I just think, speak properly!!!!!!!!! (only when its annoying townies though)

    Yeh thats how i say 'em too :D

    I havent seen you round in a while...not that i ever knew you or do know you, i just recognise your name and av :) Or have i just not been paying much attention?!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Young and sexy


    Yeh thats how i say 'em too :D

    I havent seen you round in a while...not that i ever knew you or do know you, i just recognise your name and av :) Or have i just not been paying much attention?!
    Wow, some one recognises me! i'm honoured!:D I just don't reply to a lot nowadays its mainly crap, but I thought I'd better keep my post count up:)



    wow:D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Silverberg

    Wow, some one recognises me! i'm honoured!:D I just don't reply to a lot nowadays its mainly crap, but I thought I'd better keep my post count up:)



    wow:D

    Hehe! :wave: Hello :D
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