Middlesbrough people associate themselves with districts in a very similar way to Hull people. It's the way the town has been planned for many decades.
Never come across them doing this when people from elsewhere ask them. Though basically Middlesbrough grew from Marton, birthplace of Captain Cook.
Middlesbrough grew from a new town established in the 1830s around new port facilities served by the emerging railways and, within a couple of decades, new ironworks. It didn't subsume Marton until 100 or more years after its establishment. Linthorpe, Saltersgill, Berwick Hills, North Ormesby, Acklam, Park End - these are some of the equivalents of Hull's districts.
FFS Chazz there are well documented reasons why people didn't agree with the Allams' way of dealing with the stadium issue. You know that but you'd rather not acknowledge it. It's been done to death. That was a stupid post. You never can resist taking the piss out of people with a perfectly reasonable view.
They are, but never noticed people saying they were from there the way Hull folk do. Linthorpe, Linthorpe and Nunthorpe Imrecall from the football tournaments my lads played at up there. Marton and Cleveland Juniors were the best two at the time. Jonathan Woodgate played for Cleveland but never stood out to me on the occasions I saw them (which is more a reflection on my talent spotting abilities). The junior football scene up there was unbelievable at the time. Two different leagues each with two divisions of twelve all the way from under 10s to under 16s. Put the amount down here into the shade. The local paper had the scores and scorers for each game, including half times in a 32 page junior sport pullout of which 24 pages were devoted to junior football. Made possible by the fact that supplying details to the local paper was a condition of league membership. Probably gone downhill since. Made all the more remarkable by the fact most junior teams got use of a pitch for free in East Yorks then but in .Middlesbrough with a staunch Labour council charged about £20 a pitch entailing some prodigious fund raising efforts by the clubs with a large number of age groups.
Leeds can have all the ****ing wine bars and fancy restaurants it wants it doesnt alter the ****ing awful accent they all have. Cant stand it. Would never live there. Our kid married one and its nails down a blackboard every time she speaks. "Ee it were right good"
To be fair not all Leeds folk talk that. (Don't you mean feet good?)I have relatives from there and you wouldn't think Leeds when you hear them speak. Sheffield and South Yorkshire is worse. I always thought someone from Sheffield who went in my local pub was a heavy drinker as he was always saying he had been on neats. Eventually realised he was referring to his night shift.(And a lot of people are less than complimentary about Hull accents. Never particularly notice speaking to people in Hull but it comes across on the radio. Was listening to a lass talking about mobile ferns and hair exthenshuns. Was surprised when someone down on the south coast last year said to me " you're from Hull sren't you?". Seems my mother was right when she said the time I spent living in Hull showed. Or, as she put it, I had acquired some sloppy speaking mannerisms. Personally I find then Black Country accent the most irritating. And Scousers, Geordies, Cockneys etc, etc... Always used to laugh at hotel and B and B owners referring to Wessies as Huskies as the first thing they asked on booking in was " have you got us keys?".
Ye i worked in Barnsley. Land that time forgot. Work with a Barnsley lad now and he's a good lad, but it does grate on me. It'll be reet. Mind you he's chuffed as he's off to Wembley.
Barnsley. Dish clarts. I love most accents, and can spot most within a few seconds too. The Manc one is the only I find a little irritating. Brummies are generally quite funny. Buzz for bus makes me laugh.
Did you ever hear that interview with Ian Macmillan, where he talks about the dialect changing from dale to dale; how you were identified by a subtlety. Am I right that there used to be an East Hull accent? Maybe still is.
Go up to the Filey area and there used to be a line where people said we is and others us be.Don't know if it is the case now with so many people moving about and newcomers arriving.
Better than the most multicultural road in Britain some sections of the media were eulogising about. Drove through there last year and that was grim. Nothing to do the fact there was a load of different nationalities but the whole area was grim.
I met a family from Barnsley on holiday in Jamaica, they were lovely, but I've barely met anyone with a stronger accent. When we first met I told him I was from Hull and he didn't believe me, said I had no northern accent at all, but when I meet southerners they always ask me what part of the north I'm from.
Theres been a couple of times I've instantly thought "Ull" but then paused, could be they were from the rough side of Ull, and not the North. I don't tend to have much of an accent, not to me, depends who I'm talking to or where I've been. Daughters think it's hilarious when I've been to a game, or chatted to me dad. Rerd dad? What's a rerd? ****. Off.
Having gone to 'posh school' my kids don't have an accent, but they don't pull me up on mine, I'm not sure if they're just used to it, or if they're just being polite.
They're laughing at you behind yer back. Hopefully you had the foresight to have a handy stack of embarrassing photos of them. Bide yer time. He who laughs last, laughs longest.
There was definitely a slight difference between East and West Hull accents, maybe not to the average joe from elsewhere, but i guess being from 'Ull you could tell. On a similar topic, some of the Aussies i work with think its good how we can tell roughly what part of the England Brits are from just by their hearing them talk. I guess most of it is how we have grown up hearing different accents thanks to the medium of television and probably folk travelling around the country more. There can't be many countries that has such variation in how folk talk. I can now start to pick out Queenslanders and outsiders by their accents but they aren't as varied as the UK. Mind you picking up the Queenslanders maybe down to seeing them in bare feet driving a 'Ute'.
