THWOTH wrote:You might find this education video helpful...

Fallible wrote:Hahaha! Posh cow! Foochin’ scatty auld bag.

You know you’re talking to a Scouser when you think it might be a foreign language, but you noticed they said “arr ey” or “‘angg on” at the start of it, or “loov”, “mayst” or “lad” at the end of it.

Briton wrote:... I did have to ask his mate what he was saying.

The menace of 'mincing': Lord defends regional accents – archive, 1934

14 August 1934: Lord Ponsonby pleads for the preservation of accents but says cultivating one is the most objectionable form of speech that exists.
Lord Ponsonby broadcast last night on Accents, and pleaded for the preservation of country and of Cockney accents, of dialects, end of peculiarities of speech. “But I make one exception,” he said, “and that very strongly. It is the accent which is cultivated or copied and is not natural. This generally means mincing, which is the most objectionable form of speech that exists.

“Mincers are trying to raise themselves to some imaginable higher level. They are ashamed of their origin. They are snobs. I am rather afraid that if an attempt succeeds to standardise our speech and language we may become a nation of mincers. Now about the BBC announcers. There is no one in the room just now, so I can talk freely about them.”

There is a worse danger, and that is the talking films. If people try to imitate that low, sonorous, metallic American it will be nothing short of a catastrophe. My plea is that everyone should talk as they have been brought up to talk, however broad the accent may be. In any case, the natural is preferable to the artificial.

laklak wrote:Eh by Gum!