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Is the London accent slowly dieing

WhenIwasLittleBoy
WhenIwasLittleBoy Posts: 5,430
edited April 2008 in Not Sports Related
on my way home and there is a young lady who is taking on the phone to who her mate like the catherine Tate character yea but no but. My belief is that London is cosmopolition and before the Pc brigade jump on the band wagon this statement does not make me raceist that the true london accent will no longer exist in the next generation it will be a mix of chavs and pompus ecnomic migrants
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  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    your having a giraffe
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    your aving a bubble
  • I aint having a Turkish son its getting a right pain n the old gregory
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    edited April 2008
    You are not wrong it is all this Lazy speak "i call it "

    for example

    peeta insted of Peter

    It has drove me mad for years i first noticed it when my nephew was about 9 or 10 and i used to go mad at him

    when nth london jr does it he gets the grief of his little life it is down to lazy parenting and schooling and fecking dictionaries that add these street words into their books

    very big sore point with me i have said for years the English language will be lost yet alone london accent
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    gregory,could be used for neck or cheque,love it
  • what's a blod
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    blud
  • [quote][cite]Posted By: nolly[/cite]gregory,could be used for neck or cheque,love it[/quote]gregory is neck as in gregory peck
  • you lot are on the wrong site you need charlton babes
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    true,but i have heard people say got to cash a gregory peck as in cheque as well
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  • and the northern monkeys ride into town a bunch of tax dodging students and take the hit and miss how londoners talk and then call me a cockney!!!!! Then when u explain about cockneys there response is yea but you sound like that del boy and he is a cockney
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    isn't a cheque a kite but why???
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    yes as well,my favourite is mars bar for scar
  • Northeners never ever get it thats why when we used to sing we hate Cokneys with them they used to look confused
  • if my kids start to talk like some of these herberts god help em ......your a Londoner so be like one
  • Why don't we sing "Maybe it's because I'm a londoner" to the northerners anymore?
  • we did in the boozers before Ipswich
  • Needs reviving I think
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    edited April 2008
    Language and accents evolve. A while ago I listened to a programme on Radio 4 where they played recordings of soldiers' voices in World War 1. Even taking account of the sound quality those "working class Tommies" as they were known sound very different to the "working class" of today nearly 100 years on.
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    thats true,my grandads voice is diffrent them people these days
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  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,752
    [cite]Posted By: nth london addick[/cite]You are not wrong it is all this Lazy speak "i call it "

    for example

    peeta insted of Peter

    It has drove me mad for years i first noticed it when my nephew was about 9 or 10 and i used to go mad at him

    when nth london jr does it he gets the grief of his little life it is down to lazy parenting and schooling and fecking dictionaries that add these street words into their books

    very big sore point with me i have said for years the English language will be lost yet alone london accent


    Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,337
    I bemoan the standard of grammar and spelling ....

    Program it is not
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    [cite]Posted By: Riscardo[/cite]I bemoan the standard of grammar and spelling ....

    Program it is not

    Where to start .........
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,752
    [cite]Posted By: Riscardo[/cite]I bemoan the standard of grammar and spelling ....

    Program it is not


    What?
  • Yeah all these tea pot lid's with there chavvy rabbit and pork get on my hampton wick.
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,181
    edited April 2008
    Have a listen to Del boys long lost dad Reg (not Grandad) in one of the early series of OF&H. Thats a cockney accent you very rarely here these days, nasal and almost like the dreadful false cockney accent of Dick Van Dyke.

    Language changes. Think of the place known as Pall Mall. If you say it posh and plumy it sounds ike Pell Mell and that is indeed what it orginally was but the vowel sound has shifted. This is very common in history. The great strength of English is its acquisitiveness and adaptability. It doesn't surprise me that old fashioned cockney is being surplanted by street language.

    I live in Norfolk and there are two distinct dialects in the area. One is Norwich which is nasal and quite high. I'm told this came from the shoemaking industry in the city )now virtually gone) where the noise of the factories required people to speak in a high register. The out of Norwich accent is much softer - characterised by phrases like "he know moy sister" and " hello moy man" and Ha' yer got a loight boy". What is clear though is that many people from Essex, Hertfordshire and beyond have moved up this way and a general southern/London accent probably just as common.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    The "London accent" is certainly disappearing from the streets of London - as is English in some places.

    The only thing worse than someone jabbering loudly on their mobile on a packed train is someone jabbering loudly in a language you don't understand!
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,752
    There's a lot I could say on this subject, but instead I will just repeat that those who bemoan a lack of correct English should look at themselves.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    [cite]Posted By: jimmymelrose[/cite]There's a lot I could say on this subject, but instead I will just repeat that those who bemoan a lack of correct English should look at themselves.

    Admit it Jimmy, you checked that post twice for typo's before clicking the "Add your comments" box, didn't you?
    ;o)
  • init Jimmy ;0)