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Post by hedben on Oct 23, 2021 15:16:49 GMT
A lot of people in the Midlands put the emphasis on the "day" part of "yesterday" and then don't hear any difference when I try to explain how they're saying it different. Yester-DAY rather than YESterday, as if it's 2 different words.
I found it absolutely infuriating when I first moved here. Like, say it wrong all you like, it's your fun regional quirk, but don't tell me you're saying it the same as everyone else when you're clearly not.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2021 15:21:37 GMT
I ask because I'm listening to an audiobook where characters do a lot of griMACE(ing), and it is fucking doing my head in, every time the narrator says it it's like needles in my ears. I'd always put a small accent on the first suitable (so, GRI-muss), and this book made me think "have I been pronouncing this word wrong for my entire life?" Maybe I have been! It's an uncomfortable possibility. Or maybe it's just a regional thing? Joe Abercrombie? I found the same so looked it up and apparently it is grim-ace
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 23, 2021 15:25:51 GMT
A lot of people in the Midlands put the emphasis on the "day" part of "yesterday" and then don't hear any difference when I try to explain how they're saying it different. Yester-DAY rather than YESterday, as if it's 2 different words. I found it absolutely infuriating when I first moved here. Like, say it wrong all you like, it's your fun regional quirk, but don't tell me you're saying it the same as everyone else when you're clearly not. That's the least of their language related problems
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Post by Zuluhero on Oct 23, 2021 15:49:24 GMT
Tbh this whole discussion is making me grimace.
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Post by knighty on Oct 23, 2021 16:12:55 GMT
Gri-muss but I'm part mockney part Portsmouth so my accent is not to be trusted. Slight stress on the first syllable I spose As a fellow portsmuthian, it’s clearly gri-muss.
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Post by 😎 on Oct 23, 2021 16:19:55 GMT
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Post by gray on Oct 23, 2021 16:20:24 GMT
My brain has recently tuned into people saying FRUStrated rather than frusTRATED. Shits everywhere yo.
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Post by Lukus on Oct 23, 2021 16:43:17 GMT
A lot of people in the Midlands put the emphasis on the "day" part of "yesterday" and then don't hear any difference when I try to explain how they're saying it different. Yester-DAY rather than YESterday, as if it's 2 different words. I found it absolutely infuriating when I first moved here. Like, say it wrong all you like, it's your fun regional quirk, but don't tell me you're saying it the same as everyone else when you're clearly not. I'm from the Midlands and I haven't a fuckING clue what you're going on about.
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Post by Sarfrin on Oct 23, 2021 16:43:53 GMT
Joe Abercrombie? I found the same so looked it up and apparently it is grim-ace That's how I say it.
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Post by Lukus on Oct 23, 2021 16:46:05 GMT
But I am lucky to have not been afflicted with a regional accent and I have a very sexy voice.
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Post by anephric on Oct 23, 2021 16:55:52 GMT
A lot of people in the Midlands put the emphasis on the "day" part of "yesterday" and then don't hear any difference when I try to explain how they're saying it different. Yester-DAY rather than YESterday, as if it's 2 different words. I found it absolutely infuriating when I first moved here. Like, say it wrong all you like, it's your fun regional quirk, but don't tell me you're saying it the same as everyone else when you're clearly not. I'm from the Midlands and I haven't a fuckING clue what you're going on about. CoalVILLE. People around here insist on saying that. Not Coalville, it's Coal[beat]VILLE.
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Post by Sarfrin on Oct 23, 2021 17:04:20 GMT
I thought they said it CoalVILE.
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Post by Dougs on Oct 23, 2021 19:13:04 GMT
The best kind of regional differences are totally made up words. On the rock, some people say "five and twenty to" instead of "twenty five to". And "somewhen" instead of "soon/later/anytime". Madness
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Post by dfunked on Oct 23, 2021 19:16:50 GMT
Didn't know that about Alcatraz... Tell me more!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2021 19:31:52 GMT
I thought he meant while on top of Dwayne Johnson.
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Post by Phattso on Oct 23, 2021 20:08:57 GMT
The best kind of regional differences are totally made up words. On the rock, some people say "five and twenty to" instead of "twenty five to". And "somewhen" instead of "soon/later/anytime". Madness Five and twenty to was very very common in east end London some forty or fifty years back. Retirees moving out there maybe?
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Post by Danno on Oct 23, 2021 20:21:20 GMT
Makes sense for Gibraltar to be posh Benidorm I guess
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Post by khanivor on Oct 23, 2021 20:37:03 GMT
Saying ‘half past pr a quarter to” confuses the fuck out of met people round here
And smart ones too, not just those who are confused as to why guns are thought dangerous or why Jesus wasn’t white
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Post by dfunked on Oct 23, 2021 20:40:40 GMT
The best kind of regional differences are totally made up words. On the rock, some people say "five and twenty to" instead of "twenty five to". And "somewhen" instead of "soon/later/anytime". Madness Five and twenty to was very very common in east end London some forty or fifty years back. Retirees moving out there maybe? You mean some fifty or forty year hence?...
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Post by Dougs on Oct 23, 2021 21:29:47 GMT
The best kind of regional differences are totally made up words. On the rock, some people say "five and twenty to" instead of "twenty five to". And "somewhen" instead of "soon/later/anytime". Madness Five and twenty to was very very common in east end London some forty or fifty years back. Retirees moving out there maybe? Could well be, was more commonly heard in my youth mind you. Which was quite a while ago.
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Post by Danno on Oct 23, 2021 21:31:53 GMT
Saying ‘half past pr a quarter to” confuses the fuck out of met people round here And smart ones too, not just those who are confused as to why guns are thought dangerous or why Jesus wasn’t white What do they say instead?
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Post by jono62 on Oct 23, 2021 21:32:54 GMT
Saying ‘half past pr a quarter to” confuses the fuck out of met people round here And smart ones too, not just those who are confused as to why guns are thought dangerous or why Jesus wasn’t white What do they say instead? I could care less that it is 6:30 on accident.
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Post by dfunked on Oct 23, 2021 21:35:20 GMT
"06:30am" for added eyeball stabbing
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Post by Danno on Oct 23, 2021 21:37:22 GMT
And the metric system is 'too confusing'
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Post by Nanocrystal on Oct 23, 2021 21:43:11 GMT
Stephen King books are full of "a quarter of three" and I've never figured out whether that means a quarter to or a quarter past.
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Post by Danno on Oct 23, 2021 21:45:56 GMT
Stephen King books are full of "a quarter of three" and I've never figured out whether that means a quarter to or a quarter past. Is that even a reference to time? It makes no sense
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Post by Nanocrystal on Oct 23, 2021 21:46:36 GMT
While I'm on that subject, I've never understood why midday is 12pm. If the 11 that came just before is 11am, then surely it's 12am? Then 1pm going up to 12pm midnight.
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Post by Lizard on Oct 23, 2021 21:53:25 GMT
Can we segue this into a rant abut the idiotic American date format? I never tire of moaning about that.
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Post by dfunked on Oct 23, 2021 21:56:06 GMT
YYYY/MM/DD
That should seriously be the global standard.
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Post by technoish on Oct 23, 2021 22:36:08 GMT
While I'm on that subject, I've never understood why midday is 12pm. If the 11 that came just before is 11am, then surely it's 12am? Then 1pm going up to 12pm midnight. I guess because it would be weird for 12:00 to be am, but 12:01 to be pm.
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