Anyone seen this? made me laugh. http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/articles/2005/02/14/voices_hullspeak_glossary.shtml
[video=youtube;b3FXG5cElws]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=b3FXG5cElws[/video] Maybe this can help more
you must have missed the 'how to talk 'ull' publication some years back. maybe too young to have seen it. some of the ones listed are not exactly right - "Canaborryit?", for instance - i have never heard anyone stick a y in there. on ones like "Dinntit", the second t inevitably disappears with a glottal stop. "Gassunder" should surely be "Gazunder". the 'how to talk 'ull' one had similar inaccuracies.
Good one Mussie - the piss-takes I get from those around here! (Er ner, it's ner jerk...etc, etc. Bast*rds!)
Its strange I was born and lived in Hull all my life (born on a council estate so no I don't have a posh family) and people are always telling me I don't sound like I'm from Hull and I really do notice it when I'm talking to some one with a proper Hull accent.
When I worked at Comet on George Street people on the phone thought I was from Blackburn, could never work that one out- been round here all my life!
I'd like to know which areas of Hull have the accent, as I don't have it either and was born and raised in and around Hull/Hull area. My accent is described (by others) as 'northern' but nobody can place it as Hull. Those who know the real 'Hull' accent always say it sounds nothing like mine!
I used to say a lot of them with my dodgy stoneferry accent haha but reading through them earlier i realised i had to actually think about it before i could pronounce them looks like i am losing my accent after all (well until im drunk)
The wife actually enjoys watching the Football League show with me every Tuesday night just so she can see if she understands everything the managers say. She's gotten much better at understanding NB the last few weeks.
Same issue - grew up on Boothferry, sound pretty generic. Always get grief at matches for being southern!
My mate claims it's the worst accent in Britain. Even though he's from the area and his whole family still lives here as well. Maybe he's just an invirted snob. When i was in Manchester, most of the people i met, did the whole "err nurr" imitations, and the lass, who i live with, is from Bradford, cringes when i say words like "mafting", and jokes about the pronounciation of "narn" & "farve" when a broad Hull accent comes on the telly or on the radio. Trying to put chip spice on her chips is quite funny. I don't think i have much of an accent though.
