pronounciation of common words

Oh, well it must be a regional thing then, Balini. We say 'shore' where I live.

I meant "pronounced"

Where I come from ana, it's pronounce "shoor"

How do you pronounce it, Balini?

The Sure advert, they pronounce it "shore" I hate it.

Oh so many of these and prostrate instead of prostate ,disinterested when it should be uninterested and a special mention for those who pronounce place names with a foreign accent. And don't start me on quinoa. Food in the NE seems to be fud and film seems to be fillum.

I think a regional accent is ok but regional variations of words is not good. Using slang words is fine at home or with friends but at work not so good.
I have to speak well as I mix with all different people at work and it is no good mumbling a Geordie phrase if Im talking to a Londoner etc.
I really do think that an accent is lovely, I love the cockney accent and the Yorkshire accent and some of the slow country burrs of the west country is refreshing to the soul.

OK Etheltbags I recently heard someone on the radio using the expression "where there's muck there's brass".
(an expression generally attributed to Yorkshire.

But instead of saying brass (ass as in donkey) she pronounced it as "br-arse". To me it sounded completely wrong, given the whole context of the expression.
What do you do think about such dialect expressions? or would you prefer we all spoke posh.

Laff or larf is either right?
Brass or br-arse.
What is wrong with a notable regional accent clearly enunciated?

Hidge Tha don't miss out t's in't deepest Yorkshire.

More foot in mouth than tongue in cheek perhaps.

Not keen on attacking a poster for caller her pooter a pooter, didn't see rubbishing the NW, but I did quite like the servants bit - that was up there with Jonathon Swift.

www.cracked.com/blog/5-satirists-attacked-by-people-who-totally-missed-point/

No Im just bored, been at work and I needed some excitement, lol

So is that your entire justification for a totally uncalled-for attack on another member for her choice of words? Not to mention rubbishing the NW, and proposing making refugees work as servants??
Blimey. It is not easy to discern the " tongue in cheek" irony among such a barrage of broadsides.

No Im just bored, been at work and I needed some excitement, lol

well yes- but doing so in such a provocative way on several threads at once did make me wonder?

I rarely drink and haven't tonight, cant you see when something is said 'tongue in cheek' Granjura

Just wondering, but have you been drinking?

sorry must have hit something twice, my pooter is elderly Im waiting for Santa to fetch me a new one

So bad you have to say it twice?
This thread is an absolute eye opener for judgemental intolerance and the assumption that -*everybody else* must be in the wrong.

someone on another thread calls her computer her pooter. I cant think how that can sound like computer. Its like nails on a blackboard to me.

someone on another thread calls her computer her pooter. I cant think how that can sound like computer. Its like nails on a blackboard to me.

Mamie - I must be getting used to the local accent. Another unusual one here is the gutteral "r", sort of a growl, like the old Geordie "r" which you hardly ever hear now.

Tricia "brooang" because you are in the south? I love the southern pronunciation - demang for demain, ving for vin etc. Up here in Normandy they swallow the ends of words (ils mangent les mots) and it is much harder to understand, as well as adding the odd word in patois.
Not just the English who notice regional accents!

My pet hates;

'different to' How the heck (nearly used another word) can anything be different TO? Might as well have 'similar from'....

'fed up OF'

It's all because Grammar aint been taught correkly in recent years.

Incidentally I'm not a gran. Does it matter?

Piz Buin- certainly NO 'r' in the pronunciation, and no 'r' in the word anyhow! Piz is a peak indeed. Then 'bween' but make the 'ee' short.

I shall think of it now as 'broon piss'.

ps no idea how to pronounce piz bruin.
If it was french it would be pees brooang.