Is the London accent slowly dieing

WhenIwasLittleBoy

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

nolly

your having a giraffe

nolly

your aving a bubble

WhenIwasLittleBoy

I aint having a Turkish son its getting a right pain n the old gregory

nth_london_addick

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

gregory,could be used for neck or cheque,love it

WhenIwasLittleBoy

what's a blod

nolly

blud

WhenIwasLittleBoy

[quote][cite]Posted By: nolly[/cite]gregory,could be used for neck or cheque,love it[/quote]gregory is neck as in gregory peck

nth_london_addick

you lot are on the wrong site you need charlton babes

nolly

true,but i have heard people say got to cash a gregory peck as in cheque as well

WhenIwasLittleBoy

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

isn't a cheque a kite but why???

nolly

yes as well,my favourite is mars bar for scar

nth_london_addick

Northeners never ever get it thats why when we used to sing we hate Cokneys with them they used to look confused

WhenIwasLittleBoy

if my kids start to talk like some of these herberts god help em ......your a Londoner so be like one

vancouveraddick

Why don't we sing "Maybe it's because I'm a londoner" to the northerners anymore?

WhenIwasLittleBoy

we did in the boozers before Ipswich

vancouveraddick

Needs reviving I think

LenGlover

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

thats true,my grandads voice is diffrent them people these days

jimmymelrose

[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

I bemoan the standard of grammar and spelling ....

Program it is not

Off_it

[cite]Posted By: Riscardo[/cite]I bemoan the standard of grammar and spelling ....

Program it is not

Where to start .........

jimmymelrose

[cite]Posted By: Riscardo[/cite]I bemoan the standard of grammar and spelling ....

Program it is not

What?

Bexleyheath_Red

Yeah all these tea pot lid's with there chavvy rabbit and pork get on my hampton wick.

bingaddick

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

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

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

[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)

vancouveraddick

init Jimmy ;0)