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flipnflap | 22:36 Sun 26th Dec 2010 | Phrases & Sayings
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It appears to be trendy for the youth of today to say the word 'party' as 'par-ee', and 'thirty' as 'thir-ee'. Makes me cringe. You?
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Avatar Image boxtops
It's not youth, flipnflap, it's just bad Estuary English.
22:37 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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Is there any such thing as GOOD estuary English, Boxtops? ;-)
22:38 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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a form of glottal stop, I suppose. I was impressed to find that they do it in the east end of Fiji as well as the East End of London.
22:38 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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Like at Ka-e Moss's thir-eeith birfday par-ee ?
22:38 Sun 26th Dec 2010
Avatar Image boxtops
LOL chris, I should have said "bad (Estuary English) pronunciation" :-)))
22:40 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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"good" Estuary English ?

Well, surely EE is just another regional accent.

Can we make subjective judgements about whether an accent is good or bad ?

I mean, obviously the Midlands accent is bad, but, you know.
22:43 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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LOL jj, when I lived in Brum, they took the mickey out of my suvvern accent... especially when I was waiting for the BUSS.
22:45 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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well how about bath and path? when did they put the R in it for barth and parth
22:46 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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LOL Boxy ...

Most of the population here is pretty migrant, but the indigenous Sussex accent is utterly ghastly.

Thankfully, not many people still have the accent and, hopefully, it will die out.
22:49 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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When they moved them down Sarth Alexandered.
22:50 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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alex ...

"bath" doesn't need an "r" because it's already pronounced "baaath"
22:50 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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I thought the R was silent like the P
22:51 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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p ?
22:52 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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Come on Jayne I bet you have had a p in the bath!!!
22:53 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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Aaaaah ... I see.

No, actually.

Maybe in the shower.
22:54 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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"Can we make subjective judgements about whether an accent is good or bad ?"

Agree.... modern knowledge is more likely to be passed on as x3 + 3x2 + 3x + 1. than it is as "I wandered lonely as a cloud. That floats on high o'er vales and hills"

Language pedants get a life
22:55 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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Chuck ...

Presumably Wordsworth would have had a bit of a weird Coronation Street accent.
22:57 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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..and the Brontes therefore were distinctly Northern....
22:58 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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So, Boxy ...

"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly."

Would become ...

"Eee, lad, Ah bain't sayin' as tha's reet grand, though Ah's fair fond of thee."
23:04 Sun 26th Dec 2010
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thats good Jayne and here was me thinking you were a Brighton belle!!
23:06 Sun 26th Dec 2010

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