Accents/ dialects or whatever you call it.

cwathen · Fri 04 May, 2007 00.45

Being from the West Country, he must be used to people joking about his accent. Everytime they speak, I always think they're going to start off with "You got yer". They always do! It's funny when you hear them describe something technical: "You got yer keyboard, you got yer bluetooth headset, you got yer 17-inch widescreen high definition display..." In any other accent, it would sound fine, but the West Country do it the best!

I like the way that people from 'up country' seem to believe that Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset and parts of Gloucester all share a single common accent.

At the *very least*, I can identify two accents in Cornwall (West and East, gradually changing around about Bodmin) and three in Devon (West Devon, East Devon, Plymouth) alone!

I always used to love the way all the 'Cornish' characters in Wycliffe sported deep Somerset accents.

Anonymous · Mon 14 May, 2007 06.38

Ellur
Sir, summatup?
Dernt nerr wotta say
Bert, gizza go aftayer
Im ner gunna be jerkin lerds 'n lerds

Im not slur, juss yer cart edgicate perk!

Worrawolly, aye...

Tek cur

~ My Northern Accent (gorrit for nowt, darn pub)

lewsnews · Mon 14 May, 2007 22.20

BBC Radio Devon's Tony Beard on a Sunday... what a legend, you could listen to him for hours (whilst being asleep).... but from his accent, you'd tell where he was from a mile off... I have his autograph