Comments on: Tursdays rand

By: K8

K8 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:43:34 +0000

Not just Ds, either, it’s Ns aswell.

Hearing DJs talk about things happenin in twenny minutes while driving makes me want to embed a tree into my bonnet. Grow a nose, fuck sake.
.-= >> K8´s latest brainfart .. No pain, no gain =-.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:01:23 +0000

Stipes – Precisely. So if he turned around mid Atlantic, he would have had the accent without ever having reached the far side?

By: stipes

stipes — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:49:00 +0000

When the young man went to ‘merica for the week-end and had a New York accent before he got there, he had developed a mid-Atlantic accent.

By: Karyn Romeis

Karyn Romeis — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:09:28 +0000

Down this neck of the woods, the letter T is replaced by a glottal stop – unless it comes at the start of a word: “D’you wa’ me to type a le’ah?” Drives me nuts! Despite my flat, South African vowels, I am often told that I am posh, because “you say all your le’ahs”

Oh, and just to point out, the Atlantic separates Africa from America, too, perhaps you are actually closer to the middle of it than you thought ;o)

By: SAm Crea

SAm Crea — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:26:14 +0000

Where is the mid-Atlantic? Is it the Blaskets you are talking about man? Sure Jaysus Peig Never had time to be pronouncing anything except her children dead, and the only bit of T she could scrape together was schmoked in the pipeen!

By: Grandad

Grandad — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:32:08 +0000

Frank B – I think the British are even more anti-t than the Irish! But then quite a few of their accents are just plain anti-consonant!

By: Frank B Smith

Frank B Smith — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:16:23 +0000

I’ve noticed that some British accents do away with the ‘t’ altogether. I guess it’s a Bri’ish say of fi’ing more words in, yeah?

By: Grandad

Grandad — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:15:00 +0000

Brianf – I know the trouble some of you Americans have with geography, so I’ll explain. The Atlantic is a bit of water which thankfully separates you lot from us lot. It is quite big, so it is called an ocean. Mid Atlanic [like mid anything] means ‘in the middle of’. Therefore, Mid Atlantic means ‘in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean’, which is quite a long way from your patch of land. That OK?

By: Brianf

Brianf — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:39:11 +0000

Did I mention America?
Well yes. You said,”…but I suspect it is more of this Mid Atlantic bastardisation of our spoken word.”
By Mid Atlantic did you mean Galway, or maybe just that area of ocean in the middle of the Atlantic? I am not familiar with any area know as the Mid-Atlantic other than here in the Mid-Atlantic states. That and you like blaming everything on Americans. Well maybe not everything. We had nothing to do with either Bertie or Biffo.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:01:32 +0000

Kate – Feel free?