Re: CHAT: Eng regionalisms (was: German and English)

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From: "Barry Garcia" <barry_garcia@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: CHAT: Eng regionalisms (was: German and English)


> Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
> >After 22 years in South Wales, I had problems with some local
> >pronunciations and actually did once misunderstand "coat" as "kite".  We
> >southerners find some regional accents difficult to follow, especially in
> >the N.E. England and the Scottish border country.  During the "Troubles"
> >there were not infrequently reports from Northern Ireland and one would
> >dearly have liked subtitles given when some of the locals were
> >interviewed.
>
> One of the reasons i love watching the shows on BBC America (primarily the
> gardening and DIY shows) is because shows like Changing Rooms travel all
> over the UK so you get to hear a wide variety of English accents. It's
> gotten easier to understand UK English accents because of it.
>
> On an American Design show called "Surprise by Design", they were re-doing
> the room of a kid who was originally from the UK. They didn't say where he
> was from, but his parents had a very interesting accent. All words that
> had /au/ in my dialect (Such as "house"), sounded like /aj/. So whenever
> the mother would say "house" she'd say it something like /hajs:/
>
 Sounds Scottish to me.