Hull Accent

When my son went to visit his ex in-laws in Norway, he could understand a lot. However, I cannot understand at all when my other son's partner speaks Danish. I know which place names have Danish roots, but that's about it.

After 24 years in Cornwall I got pretty good at understanding the accent, but I used to have an awful time when I had to organise events with one of the local farmers. He had a very thick accent, talked very fast and had a speech impediment. The combination was pretty lethal and I was lucky if I picked out one word in three! Things always got organised in the end, but I was never sure how.

I lived and workd in Hull for 20+ years but still couldn't reproduce the accent. Though I still remember children saying "haitch" for aitch.
But I was born and grew up in Northumberland and can switch to Geordie at the drop of a hat - whye aye man!

When we came back to England from Africa at the end of 1970, we lived for a while in deepest Devon, sometimes enjoying a drink at a local pub. Could we understand a word the other drinkers spoke? I'd have stood a better chance with Swahili.

The best one I heard was when discussing what to cook for tea with a lady from Lancashire." I've got some cheese left" she said " and " I'm goin' fer't 'ave fer't use it"

I was talking to a Scottish lady the other day about the names families give to their children. She said she particularly liked her neighbour's choice of the name "Peril" I looked at her thinking only of Beryl the Peril and why anyone would choose that and she said "Well, how would you pronounce Pearl?

Yesterday, before the Scotland/France match, Jill Douglas was interviewing the new Scottish number 10 and even I could barely understand a word he said. Note to Scotland management: media training needed for new star!

Pheeew Anno, I was trying to understand him and couldn't, and thought 'my English is slipping, been away too long (6 years in March)- but then OH said he didn't get a word either! When I first went to work in the UK, I was supposed to go and work for Reckitt and Coleman in Hull- but then was sent to London- lucky escape for my English then ;) lol.

Oh granjura you missed out:
"Reckitt's girls, Reckitt's girls,
Eyes like diamonds, teeth like pearls."
Used to skip to this when I was a kid. I think it is probably because this was a better job for girls than the fishing industry.

I have happy memories of Ferens Art Gallery * DJ* we used to go quite often as children (also Wilberforce House , transport museum and the whaling museum when it used to have the huge whale's jawbones outside). I can remember vividly some of the art work at Ferens. There was a bronze thing like an enormous beetle and a scary painting of a saint (Sebastian?) pierced with lots of arrows.
We might be going up there next week (if DH can get a football ticket) maybe I'll get a chance to go to the gallery and see what it's like.
Lots of culture in Hull already when we start to think about it.

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Have you been to the History Centre, ruby? It's where the archives are kept, just off Freetown Way. Can't remember the street name, but then I never had to when I lived on Spring Bank or Spring Bank West.

In all my years in the UK (39) I never did go further North East than Durham (which I love, especially the amazing Cathedral, in all its simple and huge Norman glory) - very much one of my dreams to go to Northumberland, Alnwick, Lindisfarne and the wild coast. When we visit the UK, we have so many things to do and have never made it yet. And I've never been to either Newcastle (we live in Newcastle-u-Lyme for 4 years though) or Liverpool on t'other side.

Trisher, that is funny and never heard it before. I went to work for Beecham's in Brentford, London, instead. Used to get teased mercilessly about Beecham's powders. Must say I loved my 3 years in SW London.

Reckitts was a company with very advanced views about its employees - James Reckitt was a philanthropist who, among other things built a quite luxurious housing estate for his employees, Garden Village, still very much occupied (BIL lives there.)
They even had a keep fit scheme for their workers - I'm still in touch with a friend from Hull who was at one time a sports teacher there.

we live in Newcastle-u-Lyme for 4 years though granjura you should be able to translate my post of
Fri 06-Feb-15 10:09:32

'I wunna gunna go on buzz down town terday, me duck'

Ahaha I loved the Stoke accent and the people i worked with found it hilarious to teach me, the little foreign girl, hos to speak proper potteries! But we digress- back to Hull ;)

'Ull

or Kingston-upon-Hull is you want to sound posh.

if not is

Do not know anyone who ever called it Kingston-upon-Hull. We do not want people confusing us with those upstarts from the other Kingston.

This thread has reminded me of last summer.
I was back in my native Yorkshire for a few days (Huddersfield, to be precise), and couldn't help smiling when I saw a hand-written sign outside a workshop, next to a pile of old wooden pallets. It said "elp yer sens".

Ah, it was good to be back home and realise that I still understood the language even though I haven't lived there since I was 18

(Sunday 12:05) DJ No but I have been to the new(ish ) archives in Beverley.

I ought to go there. I am trying to find out why William Hutt became MP for Hull, about the same time as William Wilberforce.

I have the Wilberforce family on my family tree (5 generations back) but haven't found a link to the great William.

My mother's family were Milners. Mary Milner married William Hutt. He was her second husband; her first was John Bowes father, of the Bowes Museum. People always said that Mary Milner's family shunned her, but she left money in her will to a niece, by the same name, so obviously she was in touch with someone.
He had no obvious connections to Hull, unless it was through her family.
Intriguing, isn't it, family history?

djen DD2 was born in Kingston-upon-Thames

She is a lot posher than the rest of us.