Regional Accents Flashcards
Cockney grammatical variation
Me replaces my
Heavy TH-Fronting
Cockney phonology
Glottal stops
Lots of contractions e.g. weren’t you = “wunt ya”
Cockney lexical variation
Wife = trouble
Goodbye = tada
Police = oldbill
Money = bees
Cockney History
“Cockney” is a pejorative connotation deriving from the 14th century Middle English word “cockenary” which meant defective egg.
The point of cockney slang words was to confused the police.
Most notable for its argot (coded language).
Was first used in the 19th century
Cumbrian Lexical variation
Anything= owt
Gossip= crack
One = yan/yaa
Ugly girl= newer
Cry= Beal
Cumbrian grammatical variation
Lots of contractions e.g. it will be alright= “be reet” / don’t= divnt/ doing= djarn
Cumbrian phonological variation
“G” and “k” are usually dropped
Usual glottal stops
Cumbrian accent facts
The dialect is in decline.
One of the few county’s in England that has its own identity and the accent plays a large role in that.
The accent isn’t well known as they keep to themselves
Yorkshire lexical variation
Nothing = nowt
Term of endearment= duck
Moody = Mardy
Take a look = goose
Child = bairn
Idiot = wazzo
Yorkshire grammatical variation
“Us” as a possessive pronoun e.g. that’s my car = that’s us car.
Anomalous conjunction of “to be” so “is” is in place of “am” e.g. I am so happy = I is so happy.
Contractions e.g. couldn’t = cunt
Yorkshire phonology
Non rhotic r
Don’t pronounce “g” at the end of “ing” words
Glottal stops.
Tendency to dipthongise monothongs e.g. floor = floo ar
Consonants pronounced more empathically
Brummie lexical variation
Something good = bastin
Bread roll = cob
Listen to that!= ark at that
To pester someone = mither
Alcoholic drink = tot
To throw a strop= having a benny
Brummie grammatical variation
“Ain’t” to replace other negatives e.g. “ I ain’t sure”
Brummie phonological variation
Downward intonation at the end of each sentence.
Regular vowel “i “ is often replaces with the sound “oy “
You becomes “yow”
Brummie facts
Usually stereotyped as uneducated
Pitch is monotone so conveys depressed tones
