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How I speak!
I was listening to the radio this morning in the car and the DJ, who is from Manchester, was talking to his guest about accents and how actors do different ones. He then asked the guest if he'd "teach it me", that is teach him how to do a particular accent.
This is a turn of phrase I often use myself, but though I have some rarely-seen family from the midlands, I'm not sure where I picked it up living in the south all my life!
Some examples of this way of speaking are:
teach it me
give it me
give it me here
show it me then
etc
The "proper" way to say these would be "give it to me" or "show me it" but for some reason words are either being dropped or spoken in a different order by people who talk this way.
I never really noticed myself doing it until my partner pointed it out, it just seemed to me to be a natural way to talk - again I have no idea where I picked it up or what this different way of ordering words is called - it's not an accent, maybe a dialect?




Most common phrases in our house:
fair enough
OK then
I am cat, hear me roar
MY blanket (generally speaking on behalf of a cat)
FUCK!
ZEBRA!
One of the most common regional delineators in the US is whether one says "soda," "pop," "soda pop," or just "Coke" to mean any generic dark-colored carbonated beverage. When I live(d) in the US, it was in the Midwest, but I never use the word pop. It's always soda or Coke for me.
Lol, I like that you apparently yell Zebra as often and in apparently the same way as Fuck!
Yeah I think there is some differences in the words people from different parts of the UK use to refer to products and brands, the main differences are in accent though.
Personally I'm terrible at working out someone's accent and where they may be from based on that, if they mention where they're from sometimes I'll go oh yeah that's what their accent is! But generally if I can understand someone I just don't really notice their accent!
Actually, we say Zeeeeeeeeeeeeeebra! :D
There are, of course, a lot of regional accents in the US. The SO and I were talking yesterday about the fact that his father, who grew up in the Midwest, pronounced "wash" as "warsh" and "roof" as "ruff" until the kids beat it out of him (because they had it beaten out of them by their East Coast elementary school teachers).
My father is "southern" Midwest (read: hick), but he doesn't say "warsh" or "ruff" as I recall.
The SO's mother still says "y'all" a lot, which she picked up in Texas. Hey, y'all. How are y'all doing?
Haha, yeah much as we wince when someone non-British says that they love the British accent, I think we are sometimes guilty of saying "the" American accent, I mean considering the wide array of accents in a small country like ours it's pretty unlikely that any country in the world would have just one accent!
The main thing I notice with US or British accents is the different ways people say words with an a in. E.g. I say bath, glass, etc as barth, glarss. My dad who grew up in the Midlands but has a fairly southern accent now, still says the hard As, but also so does my partner and their family, who are all from just 50 miles west of where I grew up!
And all this variety is lost online as it's hard to type in an accent, though Scottish twitter manage it 😂