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Post by johnnymarr on Feb 24, 2004 23:10:58 GMT
What is our accent supposed to sound like? Loads of people (mainly from holidays) reckon that we sound like Scousers??????
Whats everyone else been told??Do we even recognise the way we sound?
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Post by bebscfc on Feb 25, 2004 8:15:02 GMT
Yeah when on holiday, everyone thinks im a scouser. I hate it lol
But i love my accent!
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Post by abharsair on Feb 25, 2004 8:29:28 GMT
i got stopped a few years ago at Cheshire Oaks and was asked while a microphone was stuck in my face "What is the new music hit station that gives you more?" If I'd of got the phrase right i'd of won £200, however after making an arse of myself on a scouse radio station, the bloke who was from Liverpool didn't beleive that I was from Stoke!!!! Needless to say I went around Cheshire Oaks and then the Blueplanet muttering expletives to myself and sulking!  |
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Post by StokieSC on Feb 25, 2004 8:34:52 GMT
I think us Stokies speak perfect English
Dusnt thee think so duck?
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Post by stonetezza on Feb 25, 2004 11:11:30 GMT
Worse than being a bubonic plague carrier, people think we're scousers !!!
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Post by stonetezza on Feb 25, 2004 11:14:15 GMT
But there is a solution.
Get your copy of the Garth Crooks School of Elocution CD from the shops today.
Stop sounding like a scouser, sound like a twat instead
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Post by johnnymarr on Feb 25, 2004 12:38:23 GMT
LOL-also got told when I worked with people from Leeds that theyd had enough of being called duck, mentioned how scouse we sounded and said we all pronounce and talk things slowly
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Post by Coll40 on Feb 25, 2004 16:22:58 GMT
We haven't got an accent - it's everyone else in the country that has ;D
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Post by sheffieldstokie on Feb 25, 2004 16:26:17 GMT
People fom everywhere used to think I was scouse now no-one has a clue cos I'm getting a yorkie accent mixed in with it!
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Post by Hooky on Feb 25, 2004 18:11:50 GMT
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Post by tubes on Feb 27, 2004 0:09:07 GMT
living in shropshire, the my rural pleb mates rip me for having a Stoke accent, and Stoke mates take the piss out of my posh Shropshire accent.
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Post by hellsbells on Feb 27, 2004 1:03:31 GMT
Hmmm My cousins from deepest darkest Yorkshire say I sound like a cross between a Brummy and a scouser..  Funny that 'cus folk here tell me I sound like some Yorkshire bint.. Rock and hard place Hxx ps Work in a call centre and can immediately recognise the Stoke 'accent'.... from the oww severrrrn aight ... |
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Post by eddy on Feb 27, 2004 13:33:03 GMT
Im a plastic Stokie - the Stoke accent rules - you alright ducky! Im surrounded by scousers - the girls are stunning till they talk  Worst accent has got to be the Brummie! |
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Feb 28, 2004 16:04:18 GMT
Down ere in the south they think your sort of Brummie but oop north they think scouse  The fact is it's unique and no one can every really take our accent off correctly!  It varies a lot in Stoke On Trent, so what chance have 'foreigners' got??;D It's great when you're away and hear that familiar twang though!!  |
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Post by cambs_stokie on Feb 29, 2004 22:41:19 GMT
Right lads & lassies here's the outsiders view. I'm not a native of S-O-T & live in Peterborough (stoke supporter 31 yrs coz of Banksie in case you're wondering why). First of all the Stoke accent is the best in the world , i wish i had it (gimme lessons plz). It is true though you do sound like scousers with a bit of brummie thrown in but don't start seething & all come searching me out on satdee at the Brit for a kicking you're accent is unique & its great to hear every time i'm there. Keep it up you're soooooo lucky to have it i wish i did you ought to hear my shit southern accent its orrible   > |
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Mar 1, 2004 10:58:13 GMT
I guess to the un-trained ear it can be mistaken for scouse at times (especially the way R. Williams lays it on a bit), but the best way to summarise the Potts/North Staffs accent is to say that we do tend to stress our vowels a bit at times, d uck. If you want a great illustration of the dialect/accent - I love some of the examples on this site www.stokeuncovered.co.uk/Dialect/and this one www.pworld.ndo.co.uk/stoke1863/potteries1.htm ;D |
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Post by RipRoaringPotter on Mar 1, 2004 11:05:27 GMT
Coming from Stone, I havn't got the foggiest what my accent is meant to be ??? ??? ??? ??? I get a bit of Stokie from my mum (Satdee and Sent-nul) but apart from that it seems to be just mixed in. I think it's just a general common accent which most people seem to have in Stone. Not quite Stokie but not far off. Some people sometimes say I talk bollocks, is that an accent? ???   ;D ;D  |
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Post by Chorley on Mar 1, 2004 12:13:26 GMT
I lost my broad Potteries accent a few years after leavin' Hanford when I was 5.... Still come out with the odd word every-so-often (hey, all my words are odd), but what wi' my Mam bein' a northern lass (Preston), an' my Dad bein' a Stokie (Kingsley), my accent's been butchered by northern-ness....WAAAHHHH!! Folk up here say I'm southern, folk down south say I'm northern... It's like that and that's the way it is.... ??? |
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Post by Homzy on Mar 1, 2004 12:51:03 GMT
Let me tell you now,our accent sounds nothing like the bloody Scouse accent,the only similarity is that we say look(not 'luck) and so do they!
I always remember an argument was it Sooty and sweep or Sooty(sutty) and sweep!!!!
If you go up north,they always know where we're from- Duckland as they call it!!!!
As soon as you say duck,people know where you're from!!!!
Ay up duck,ow at?
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Post by StuttgartStokie on Mar 1, 2004 15:19:14 GMT
When speaking to people away from Stoke, I pretty much get confused for someone coming from the Wirral, which isn't quite as harsh as Scouse.
Its only the odd words in there, like how we pronounce Germany and Ferry, that makes us sound like Scouse. The Brummie and Manc bits also in there confuse people.
It's also really easy to spot a Stoke accent.
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Post by ks on Mar 1, 2004 17:16:53 GMT
Speaking as another non-SOT born Stokie, I think the Potteries accent is fantastic. It's completely unique and always brings a smile to my face, especially when heard out of context.
As a kid I would always be confronted by my grandad or uncle who would bark "At owraight 'ar yuth?" at me, and despite my startled look of incomprehension would repeat themselves until somebody intervened "He wants fer know if yer owraight!".
Undeterred, I took a crash course in Arfer Tow Crate, May Und Mar Lady and Owd Grandad Piggot and now proudly consider myself relatively able to hold conversations with my extended family. I also feel priviledged to be realtively able to pull off a few words of my own relatively convincingly, although due to the rest of the country's complete lack of apprciation of the art of how one should 'tow crate' this usually falls to a stony, unappreciative silence.
For me, it's one of those things that gives you a warm feeling of homeliness and nostalgia, with memories of coal fires, the boothen end, my grandad and cheese and bacon oatcakes. And something which nobody else around here appreciates, uninitiated as they are as to what one should do with a "bow", a "wow" and precisely at what point one should cease to "yed" the former against the latter.
KS.
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