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Post by Bara on Aug 3, 2013 4:23:52 GMT -5
I just LOVE 'em!
So a little 'Royal Mail' guy rang my bell. (No, not THAT. 'Sign here'.) Zen will know.
I said : 'You're not Shetland?' "No," says he, "West Midlands." 'Oh,' says I. "You don't sound Brummie to me."
"No," he says, "I'm from Shropshire."
Yes, one of the Shires, Brooks. Last time I looked, Shropshire was in The West Country, not the Midlands. Anyway, he has taken back the 'parcel delivery' notice, signed for it and will re-deliver on Monday.
It's amazing to me how many 'Shetlanders' are not actually from Shetland - including me... So many of us are transplanted English and Hungarian (because I can't speal Czechoslovakian. See? I toldya. I can't speal atall.
But I do really love accents. Don't you?
I can tell Deb from Ann.. That's about IT! I can't even tell how Tee is different from American. I THINK I did, when I lived in Canada, but I'm really not sure.
My good, Shetland friends forgive my accent.... Though they still laugh at me!
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Post by Big Tee© on Aug 3, 2013 9:06:54 GMT -5
I sound like most people from the northern plains - the people I know from ALberta, Manitoba, Saskatchean, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota all sound pretty much alike save for the rodeo boys who have some weird accent, regadless of where they are from.
I thought up your way, Bara, you also have a lot of people of Scandanavian descent? Here, we are all transplants!!LOL
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Post by Bara on Aug 3, 2013 9:48:33 GMT -5
Yes. There's a Norwegian lilt to the voices, here.
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Post by adcooper on Aug 8, 2013 20:21:20 GMT -5
My cousin's wife is from some place south of the Lake District. Just saw her last week, and she drew a map showing the lakes, and also Blackburn, Manchester and Liverpool, and pointed vaguely in the middle of that triangle. Or maybe the points were Blackpool, Barnoldswick and Ingleton. Her map was good, but I got to thinking about Wordsworth and did not pay close attention. I'm a poor excuse for a relative.
Big Tee, I can hear the difference between Montana and Minnesota! I've lived both places, and Minnesotans lilt while Montanans drawl.
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Post by RacetrackRejects on Aug 12, 2013 15:30:54 GMT -5
My old trainer was from Somerset, and everyone I have met from the UK said that people from Somerset pronounced it Zomerzet, but my trainer did not..lol. I quite like her accent though. It doesn't sound like a city accent, but it doesn't sound rural either.
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Post by Bara on Aug 13, 2013 0:32:58 GMT -5
'Zomerzet where the zider apples grow' - !
Don't tell your trainer, but that's our 'all-purpose' yokel accent. It's like all accents, I guess, there's a range from slight to extreme. Your trainer is probably used to - and fed up with - people saying 'Oo-arr. Zomerzet where the ....'! (She probably knows that!)
Ask any English person and a Somerset person is sitting on a fence, wearing a smock and with a straw in their mouth, saying 'Zomerzet, where....'
It's a very beautiful county. Mind you, having been two years in Shetland, any county with a tree looks beautiful to me...
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Post by RacetrackRejects on Aug 13, 2013 14:44:02 GMT -5
Yes! That is exactly what they would say "Zomerzet where the zider apples grow". That is so funny to me. Maybe their accent was different because her parents ran a boarding school? who knows.
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Post by Lisa on Aug 13, 2013 16:20:00 GMT -5
I worked with a guy from Scotland, and I'm sure there are different Scottish accents, but I LOVED to hear him talk, and often would get lost in his accent until I realized the silence was him waiting for me to answer him. I told him that he could tell me to scrub the toilet, and it would still sound sexy!!!
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Post by Bara on Aug 14, 2013 1:41:37 GMT -5
Lisa - you're another David Tennant Groupie!
Ann, the Lakes are spectacular. Not just for wand'ring lonely as a cloud, they had Ruskin, too.
Having said that, spectacular is probably the wrong word if you think of the Grand Canyon, Niagra (Niagara?) and all your other truly spectacular geography. Maybe 'very pretty' is more accurate. Shetland has some spectacular coastline, but I'm a bit fearful of sheer cliff-faces!
Maybe so, RR, re-the school. Which one was it, do you know? I should be able to look that up, if it was in Zomerzet.
I really didn't like boarding school. I was always in trouble for heinous sins such as 'out of bed after 'lights out'; 'midnight feasts'; oh, how I escaped a life of crime I DO NOT know!
But we did have 'the ghost'!
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Post by RacetrackRejects on Aug 14, 2013 14:25:00 GMT -5
Gosh, I don't remember the name of the school now, and I think there may have been 2 actually, but I'm not sure where the other was. Their name surname was Bunch, but I think that may have been the name from the 2nd marriage. Let me think on it and I may remember.
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Post by Bara on Aug 14, 2013 19:42:56 GMT -5
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Post by ZenRider on Aug 14, 2013 23:19:56 GMT -5
What I find funny is all the people trying to put on Southern accents around where I live.  |
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Post by Bara on Aug 15, 2013 1:08:08 GMT -5
Ah, you see, we all want to be Scarlett O'Hara or Deb!
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Post by Lisa on Aug 15, 2013 8:16:46 GMT -5
lol Bara, I had to look up whoever David Tennant was, and no not a fan, Sean Connery is another story!!!
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Post by Big Tee© on Aug 15, 2013 9:44:41 GMT -5
Met the 'new' neighbour yesterday and discovered she has an accent (I will surmise her hubby has too). We just never croosed paths until yesterday as I have to go cut down grass over there that is just too much for them.
So, Bara, where is she from? She has a wee dooggie although I ain't really sure how wee a Skye Terror....er Terrier is since they are a fairly big dog on wee legs!!!LOL She also wants to meet Rambo but I cannot write horse phonetically the way she pronounces it. She is also the first person I met that didn't need an explanation as to what breed Rambo is other than locals who know what I did for my life's work; her grandfather had Standardbreds.
Lisa - I thought everyone knew who David Tennant was!!!LOL
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