Tsuyoiko
DON'T PANIC!
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Do you speak proper English like the Queen, or do you have a local dialect? My dialect is called 'Potteries', from Stoke-on-Trent in the NW Midlands of England. Here are some of its peculiarities:
I don't speak in local dialect in formal situations, but with family and close friends I use all the strange words above - I might say something like "E sneeped me. Eets mythering me death duck, I conner stop werriting mesen about eet. I think I'm going blart" (translation, "He upset me. It's making me so anxious I might die dear. I can't stop myself worrying about it. I think I'm going to cry"). My grandad could only speak in dialect, and anyone from outside the area found it very difficult to understand him. It's difficult for 'outsiders' to work out where the accent comes from, but a Stokie can recognise the accent a mile off - the 'eet' for 'it' is a dead giveaway.
- We call people 'duck' instead of 'love' or 'dear' or 'mate'.
- We miss out words - like we say "I'm going Hanley" instead of "to Hanley"
- We have words I haven't heard anywhere else:
myther = be anxious
sneeped = upset
werrit = worry
sen = self
dunner = don't
conner = can't
blart = cry
- We have odd pronunciation - 'it' sounds like 'eet' and 'look' rhymes with 'luke' not with 'luck', for example. We always drop 'h's.
I don't speak in local dialect in formal situations, but with family and close friends I use all the strange words above - I might say something like "E sneeped me. Eets mythering me death duck, I conner stop werriting mesen about eet. I think I'm going blart" (translation, "He upset me. It's making me so anxious I might die dear. I can't stop myself worrying about it. I think I'm going to cry"). My grandad could only speak in dialect, and anyone from outside the area found it very difficult to understand him. It's difficult for 'outsiders' to work out where the accent comes from, but a Stokie can recognise the accent a mile off - the 'eet' for 'it' is a dead giveaway.