Has it got boring?

Goof morning all. Well at least this is no longer a boring thread is it?

JessM I think that the native speakers of any given town or city are probably the ones who have the correct pronunciation and I am not "getting upset" about anything at all. This started only because I pointed out that parcel does not rhyme with Newcastle ( unless you pop the invisible R into it). Bath is probably another example. Where is the "R" in Bath?

I know there is a silent "P" in Bath but that's another story entirely

Go it, gillybob! (I knew you weren't getting upset, by the way, just having a laff).

Who puts a g in Singapore, and who doesn't? Hands up, hands up!

The inhabitants of Bath would say Baarth though. I would put the r in Newcastle just as I would in castle, but I am a southerner with an RP accent. I don't think that you can say there is a wrong and a right way really.
Have to say I do get annoyed when Anglophones here start pronouncing every French word in an exaggeratedly French fashion when talking to other native English speakers. Paree would really grate.
Probably very unreasonable of me.....

Hmmm that's a tough one Bags just tried saying it out loud a few times and have come out with Sing-a-paw as in sing a song. There is a G in there somewhere but it's hardly recognisable.

There is a difference too between bah'th and bar'th - and newcah'ssel and newcar'ssel, the difference being where the tongue is between the A and the TH. Those Rs get everywhere.

Purely as a matter of interest I wonder how far South you need to travel before the "R" pops in ?

When does South become Sarth
Newcastle become NewCarstle
Bath become Barth
laugh become larf
Etc.

Hope no-one taking any offence at this it is meant as fun.

I'm never sure whether to pronounce Newcastle as NEWcastle or NewCASTLE. What's the right way?
I have friends from the South who pronounce Aberdeen as ABERdeen, whereas I, and other Scots that I know, would pronounce it AberDEEN.

Hmmmm that's an interesting one Marelli . I would tend to say NEW-castle with the emphasis on the NEW. However my accent is slightly "softer" from those nearer to The Borders. I love to hear Aberdeen said in that gorgeous Scottish accent.

North east is definitely on Queen's radar, she launched the James Clark Ross at Swan Hunters. She also visited her GD at the uni and visited as part of her diamond jubilee celebrations.
I have heard though when Prince Philip was to visit the shipyard in Barrow the Queen told him to wear the fox hat

Hmmm harrigranwell the James Clark Ross was launched in 1990 (23 years ago).

and

Barrow is not exactly in the North East of England it is in Cumbria.

Many grandmas visit their grandchild when they are at uni so wouldn't say that is anything special at all.

I know where Barrow is, DH went there after Swans closed and that is why I have a home in Cumbria.

Oh sorry Harrigran I thought you were responding to my post that the NE is not on the queens radar.

gillybob when we moved from Derbyshire to Leicestershire (approx 20 miles) people told us that we would not have to acquire long Rs (that's probably rude!) so, presumably, south starts on the Derbyshire/Leicestershire border

I did something today that i should have practised for years.
I got back from Spain last night (only for a week) this morning the phone went wrong (was going to call OH in Spain) put bathroom mats on wash and all the rubber came off the back.; horrendous mess in machine.
Finally printed boarding pass. this was easy with old computer, but now with the all singing and dancing new one, well!!!.
while all this is going on i am trying to deal with the refusal of our planning application!!!.
Back to the beggining. After all this the car wouldn't start. Usually at times like this i can have a melt down. but i didn't: what i did was deal with it all as if it was happening to someone else. i am very good in bad situations / emergencies with other people; but sometimes when it's me i can go to pieces.
And do you know, it works.

don't think it would have worked for me today!

kitty boring suits me at the moment too,there is enough strife and drama going on in my family so if this is boring, it's fine by me!

My Mother used to say Paree, which really annoyed me, probably that was the reason for doing it !

Same here, grannyeggs. I'm happy to make the odd comment, usually short and sweet but I can't read through lengthy threads or take part in discussions where I have to do anything that smacks of 'thinking'.

Calm, rather than 'boring', in my opinion!

My mother used to plead for life to be a little humdrum.i like calm.

And although I put an r in newcarsle I always say Paris but Mallorca Majorca is the one that divides. And do you say Cracow with ff or a w.

Kra-kov

Mayorka - unless speaking Spanish, when it's more Malyorka

Proper hoom-droom! Anyone remember where that came from?

The one that gets my goat is Eye-beetha - you've bothered to pronounce the 'z' properly - so what the hell is 'eye' doing in there?

How about Montreal? Mon-tre-awl or Mont–reyal? And Kwee-beck or Ku-bek?

Guess how they say Versailles in Kentucky? (They have one of their own and my sister-in-law is from there).