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LadyEllen -> RE: FukinTrolls survival guide for Brit sub hunting (3/12/2007 5:51:31 AM)
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FT - this is a hopeless endeavour I hope you understand? Accent changes every 10 miles over here, along with slang/dialect words. The TV and radio etc are bringing some uniformity and commonalities, but we still have the joys, in my case of Worcester 10 miles to the south and the Black Country 5 miles to the north, whose inhabitants can be pretty much unintelligible to one another.
Its all to do with who settled where you see?
Ireland (the Republic); Gaels
Northern Ireland (UK); Gaels, a lot of Scots (see below) and English (see below) - accounting maybe for the odd accent
North and west Scotland; Gaels and Norse (maybe also Picts, as no one knows where they went, or who they were)
South Scotland; Gaels, Welsh and Saxons
North west England; Welsh (that's why its called Cumbria, which is from Cymru, Welsh for Welsh)
North east England; Welsh and Norse (which is why people in Newcastle sound a little Welsh, but odd with it)
Yorkshire; Danish Norse, plus remnants of Angles and Welsh
Lancashire; Norwegian Norse, plus remnants of Angles and Welsh
(there is a difference between Lancashire and Yorkshire accents, but outsiders cant often tell; the difference is between the Norwegian and Danish)
Liverpool; a very interesting accent, mixed Norwegian Norse and a lot of Welsh - and Irish more recently, as this is where the ships docked from Ireland
Wales; Welsh, obviously. Interestingly, Welsh is actually the Saxon word for foreigner
South West England; Saxon and Welsh, more Welsh the further southwest you go. In Cornwall, some still speak Cornish, which is alike with Welsh (the most bizarre Indo European language there is)
South east England; Saxon
East Anglia; mixed Angle, Saxon and Norse
and then my part of the world, where the border between the Norse and the Saxons was set by King Alfred (basically from Liverpool to London along the A5 road (the old Roman road)). We're the most interesting as we have it all! We also have the Black Country, where there is an old dialect in use, whose origins are clouded in mystery. My opinion is, that this dialect stems from the break up of a late Viking army in the area, who maybe settled in that area.
Orope that helps yu. Ov gorra gu an get some wairk dun naow. Mebe yow cud get ower ere an lairn yu some mower? Well, if yow do act luk a grockle o cawerse.
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