Miscellaneous British language and dialects

[Alice]

Oh my..”The Scousers”!!!
Sorry.... it’s so bad it’s ridiculous.

 

[Alice]

Shame you included Harry Enfield in that, the others might be speaking in their own accents he is a very inaccurate unfunny almost offensive caricature.

Ooops!!! 😳

 

[Pete Thomas]

Shame you included Harry Enfield in that, the others might be speaking in their own accents he is a very inaccurate unfunny almost offensive caricature.

I agree totally, I thought that at the time and hadn't realised I had still included it. His accent is terrible.

I will edit now, thanks.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Need some decent Scouse and Geordie. Who'd be good Welsh? Rob Brydon comes to mind but actually not a very heavy accent.

 

[Targa]

Need some decent Scouse .

Failing my doing a recording for you, of which you wouldn't understand a word, there's always John Lennon or for humour Ken Dodd.

 

[Alice]

Well George Harrison comes to mind..because he was described as having a “thick” accent that Auntie Mimi apparently didn’t like John copying.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Failing my doing a recording for you, of which you wouldn't understand a word, there's always John Lennon or for humour Ken Dodd.

Both of whom sound not as strong as the scousers I fondly remember when I ran away from home to Liverpool and lived for a few days with a gang of thieves and villains in a car by a canal after my Scouse girlfriend chucked me. Of course, although they had very nice strong Scouse accents, in no way am I trying to say they are typical of the gentlemen and ladies of Liverpool.

So who else, Harold Wilson? Tony Booth? Carla Lane?

 

[Pete Thomas]

Cilla!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCLlxP9qYcQ

 

[Alice]

Lily Savage.

 

[Pete Thomas]

How about Northern Ireland. Maybe Mr Paisley, but we don't politics here.

 

[Targa]

Both of whom sound not as strong as the scousers I fondly remember when I ran away from home to Liverpool and lived for a few days with a gang of thieves and villains after my Scouse girlfriend chucked me. Of course, although they had very nice strong Scouse accents, in no way am I trying to say they are typical of the gentlemen and ladies of Liverpool.

So who else, Harold Wilson? Tony Booth? Carla Lane?

Harold Wilson, Huddersfield,
Michael Angelis - if only for answering the phone in the Liver Birds with 'Der all out an I'm shampooin' me rabbit'.
The real street Liverpool accent of years ago is completely different, more guttural, from the one heard now from footballers and celebrities, which is higher pitched and whiny. Listen for the 'ck' on the end of words like 'black'.
On no account even mention Cilla Black, damn I just did.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Harold Wilson, Huddersfield,

Ah yes, MP for Huyton.

 

[Pete Thomas]

On no account even mention Cilla Black, damn I just did.

Speaking of Cilla (and I may mention her a lorry lorra times) I remember her singing Scarlet Ribbons For Her Her. Now that is Scouse!

 

[Targa]

Speaking of Cilla (and I may mention her a lorry lorra times) I remember her singing Scarlet Ribbons For Her Her. Now that is Scouse!

Practise with
I'm gerrin de fer fer er over der wid de fer er.

 

[MandyH]

There's also a series of books by the late Fritz Spiegel called 'Lern yerself Scouse' for the other side of the Penines

My ex had a book called "the Krek waiter's peak Bristle"

A Load of Old Bristle: Krek Waiter's Peak Bristle (Local Dialect):Amazon.co.uk:Books

 

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[Keep Blowing]

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