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The UK is a small, crowded and complicated island. I have driven 10 minutes to the marina where my cuz keeps his canal boat, puttered along, through a lock or two, for a few hours, before ending up having dinner/pints in a pub about 10 minutes away from his house. It's a completely different geographic location thing. And someone from less than an hour's drive from you is quite likely to sport an accent that most of us English speakers cannot decipher. (I'm specifically talking about you, Yorkshire...although Cumbria also qualifies, although a bit farther.)
 
Imagine sitting down to a pint with an English Leader, a Welshman, a Scot and an Irishman and trying to decipher the dialogue ...

Now that's dialectical ... some find dialect frightening ... among other alien intangibles ... and other find it a curiosity something interesting!

Still others would still not like to know ... thus the sense of incarnate ... incomplete ... the eternal linguistic is extensive ... that's the word ... very unsafe to a faction, so they will demand that you don't go there ... causes them seizures ... institutionalization!

There are options ... alternates ... some say only opinions on what's unknown ... and that appears as a vast abyss ... imagine a spiritual text written in Dead Languages! That would leave a mass of people in a hole churning ... for understanding ...
 
We had a Guide leader once who was originally from NZ and they thought the hour drive to Red Deer was a LONG trip and when they went to Red Deer to shop they would stay overnight as you couldn't make the drive in one day...we have people in town who have been known to make 2 or 3 trips to Red Deer in one day!
 
BethAnne said:
We had a Guide leader once who was originally from NZ and they thought the hour drive to Red Deer was a LONG trip and when they went to Red Deer to shop they would stay overnight as you couldn't make the drive in one day...we have people in town who have been known to make 2 or 3 trips to Red Deer in one day!
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Driven drivers ... like mule trains ... possessed with getting away from what's behind them ... the teamsters union?
 
Niece's 11th birthday today and she's coming over for the morning!!!!!! She hasn't been here since her birthday LAST year. Still need to wrap her present
 
It went by too fast but we had a lovely time - picking garden produce (and an almost 4 pound watermelon!), making crapapple chips and potato chips, playing "Game of Life" and "Clue"...making salads (and a mess in the kitchen!), we ate lunch and she opened her present, and she did a mini (1 outfit) fashion show, and put polish on my finger and toenails before it was time for her to go home.
 
Doesn't she live quite close? Is there some reason you don't see her more often? (I'm thinking maybe you and your sister have an 'awkward' relationship?)
 
BetteTheRed said:
The UK is a small, crowded and complicated island. I have driven 10 minutes to the marina where my cuz keeps his canal boat, puttered along, through a lock or two, for a few hours, before ending up having dinner/pints in a pub about 10 minutes away from his house. It's a completely different geographic location thing. And someone from less than an hour's drive from you is quite likely to sport an accent that most of us English speakers cannot decipher. (I'm specifically talking about you, Yorkshire...although Cumbria also qualifies, although a bit farther.)
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How do you make out with Cockney?
 
So after fighting for 2 days to create a simple Power Point slideshow and the program not cooperating for some reason, I just made a short video in iMovie.
 
Much better than Yorkshire or Cumbrian... Cumbrian I can get used to with a bit of time, similar with Scouse, because I have family members who speak it. Yorkshire just leaves me shaking my head...

OTOH, I've never had to deal much with Cockney. They don't venture up to L'pool/Warrington/Manchester, where my family hangs out.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Much better than Yorkshire or Cumbrian... Cumbrian I can get used to with a bit of time, similar with Scouse, because I have family members who speak it. Yorkshire just leaves me shaking my head...

OTOH, I've never had to deal much with Cockney. They don't venture up to L'pool/Warrington/Manchester, where my family hangs out.
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Had a Cockney speaker move here a few years ago...it was interesting
 
I'm not sure what makes Yorkshire quite so incomprehensible to me. Scouse and Cockney share a tradition of "alt words". In Scouse, a young woman is a Judy. Cockneys use a lot of rhyming slang, so once you learn the vocab, the accent is not awful. Cumbrians replace double consonants with nothing, so "butter" becomes "buh-er", so a sentence with multiple double consonants can be a bit of a conversation wasteland. But Yorkshire, I can spend half an hour "interacting" with them, and I'm getting less content than I get in French, which is not much.
 
Then there are the Scottish brogues...sis and I were the only ones who could understand the Highland Dance examiners from Scotland no matter how thick their brogue was, whereas our dance teachers and other students couldn't understand them at all.
 
I can 'do' Cockney and Lancashire enough to confuse people. Cockneys also leave out tees and aitches - except where they insert extras that don't belong there! My Nana was a genuine Cockney, having been born within the sound of the bells on Bow church. Can't say I ever noticed. My dad was a Lancashire bloke and I didn't notice his accent either most of the time. I think children hear their family members rather than accents. One of my sons got into a fight at school when someone said I had an accent ...."You take that back - she doesn't".
 
KayTheCurler said:
I can 'do' Cockney and Lancashire enough to confuse people. Cockneys also leave out tees and aitches - except where they insert extras that don't belong there! My Nana was a genuine Cockney, having been born within the sound of the bells on Bow church. Can't say I ever noticed. My dad was a Lancashire bloke and I didn't notice his accent either most of the time. I think children hear their family members rather than accents. One of my sons got into a fight at school when someone said I had an accent ...."You take that back - she doesn't".
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I once told a Welsh gal that I loved her accent and she gave me a funny look and told me I had the accent not her :)
 
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