Cumbria? I've got something for you. The development of Cumbrian from 1400 to 2020:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtcAbzO19Kg
If you want to know how Cumbrian sounds, here's the timestamp (15:21):
https://youtu.be/FtcAbzO19Kg?t=921
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British era, I have a question about pronunciation
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtcAbzO19Kg
If you want to know how Cumbrian sounds, here's the timestamp (15:21):
https://youtu.be/FtcAbzO19Kg?t=921
Yeah, it can be tough, though if you plough through it's not too bad.
It's one of those things that lets you know if the actor speaking with a british accent is actually british or an american/Canadian putting on the accent.
If they're really british they'll sort of slur the ends of words together. If they're American they'll over-ennunciate the vowels.
If they're really british they'll sort of slur the ends of words together. If they're American they'll over-ennunciate the vowels.
I really don't like to hear "th" replaced with "F' and "V". The one I hear a lot that drives me insane is people that say "Vuh" instead of "the". That's not a speech impedement that's lazy speech.
There's a stack of different British accents, you can travel for barely an hour and find different ones. It's more likely that to people from outside the country, they are used to thinking of one particular accent as 'British', which is usually the general south-east one that dominates our media exports. Personally I'm from Hertfordshire (pronounced heart). Only just outside London but we often drop 'H's, leading to the rhyme 'Artfordshire born, 'Artfordshire bred. Soft in the 'art, and fick in the 'Ed'. Over 20 years of commuting into London my accent has merged into the same generic SE England one as most of my colleagues, as I made an effort to speak a little more clearly (from the perspective of my colleagues) when I started.
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Yup, I can't say I really sound like that all the time (I don't use much of the dialect words myself) but I've been on more than a few busses with old ladies who sound exactly like that final example, it's fun.
That's literally the best and easiest example of a quirk of a lot of British accents. If I were to sing that song, I'd pronounce supernova properly the first time, then with an intrusive R the second time, because the word that follows starts with a vowel.
A very similar thing happens in French.
In my experience it seems to be most prominent in the south, where T becomes D, or gets left out completely.
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I won't defend American English haha, I talk like a high af surfer and I've never surfed a day in my life. I just wanted to know the "rules" of this particular quirk out of curiosity.
Oh no, try to keep your local dialect alive, Rotobit. The world is losing too many languages as is.
That's a SE England thing, Essex, parts of London etc. Seems to be spoken by every football pundit and Z list celebrity.
Makes you sound pretty fick.
Its even worse if you discover the slough of your snake in Slough.
Brit here (London). This is something I do a lot (not saying Pamela Anderson's name, but the slurring aspect, heh). It's just easier, and rolls off the tongue quickly. I do realise it sounds sloppy (from me) though, so I might sometimes slow myself down, where possible. This example really captures it excellently!