One if my students, a few years ago, had a genuine cockney accent. She had a wonderful turn of phrase and a gentle delivery- a young woman, nothing like the tart with the heart you see on television. Although I loved to listen to her speak, it made me quite sad to think that in a few years her culture would be lost. Accents , dialects and languages are just as endangered as animals with a pair of sad eyes at the front of their heads.
Certainly here in Scotland I notice a lot of 'Scottish' words not being used anymore. Possibly the same in everyone's area. I moved down here a long time ago and still come out with and use words they have never heard down here in Central Scotland. It is a real shame that these words will soon be lost and a direct result of people being a lot more mobile.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
I use them all...or at least all the ones I know. Sleekit, scundered (it is here), the whole lot. When I told my OH yesterday that his hose connector was dozed he looked at me as if I had horns. Is that a Norn Iron thing? An Ulster Scots thing? Or is he just veh veh English? We also have skelfs as opposed to splinters. The things one has to translate...ho hum!
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Accents , dialects and languages are just as endangered as animals with a pair of sad eyes at the front of their heads.
When I told my OH yesterday that his hose connector was dozed he looked at me as if I had horns. Is that a Norn Iron thing? An Ulster Scots thing? Or is he just veh veh English?
We also have skelfs as opposed to splinters. The things one has to translate...ho hum!