Barnsley accent on ITV News - Barnsley Market

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Where's this "Ee ba gum" come from?
I never hear that in Barnsley. More likely to be the "Ecky thump" brigade over the Pennines.

 

I hope it doesn't die out, but it sort of is. You listen to certain people who have a wonderful local accent but it seems to be fewer and fewer who have it.

 

There’s no doubt about it IMO our accent has. been diluted .
My Grandparents spoke loads broader than I do with phrases we don’t use anymore .
When I looked Ill she would say tha doernt look sir wheel .
Loads of things that don’t get said nowadays which the older end used to say .
Travel out of Town was rare so that could have a lot to do with it I suppose .

 

My daughters certainly don’t have a Barnsley accent as broad as mine, but they are told by friends who aren’t local they have a very broad accent. So perhaps our accent isn’t dying, it’s just not as broad locally as it used to be.

 

Sub titles would have been handy here. What exactly did they say?

 

Dint understand a wurd o that..

 

I never really had a Barnsley accent. I lived there from being 3 to 21. Not sure why that is.

That said this video at least doesn't denigrate the people or the town. Harmless fun.

 

It's very likely to die out, especially the most unintelligible parts.

The world is moving more global and it's only going to get more so. Being understood by people from all over the world is the most important thing.

I think the accent will stay but the dialect will die out. The accent can often be an advantage, it's a good ice breaker and people from foreign countries often love it, but words/phrases like "a se" "summat" "nowt" etc will almost certainly die out.

 

The school curriculum discourages local accents and dialects. My mum's a teacher and 'corrects' my son if he says something broad. I have to step in and say "eyup, 'is allard to speyk Yooerksher!"

 

I quite like your accent. And I can recognise it and pick it out.
Certainly more pleasant to listen to than the likes of the squeaky scouse one.

 

I like the Scousers. I have loads of mates who are Red & Blue. We had a great time in the Prem Season partying with them. They all call me "Barnsley" or "Barnsley Mark". The accent is a bit hard work, but if you like the people you put up with it I guess.

 

I had to make a genuine effort to change my accent when I moved to uni because people just didn’t understand me. A lass who I lived with in halls in first year thought I was Polish for the first 2 weeks.

 

Daughter, went for a few auditions at Northampton uni & they went mad over her tarn accent.

 

And yet other things seem to spreading through our language like wildfire. Like the cockney habit of pronouncing th with f.

 

My uncle, who introduced me to the Reds late 70s certainly had a broad Barnsley accent but nothing I couldn't understand.
However when I got older and we'd go to New Lodge Club, some of the older blokes, retired miners, well I couldn't tell a word they were saying to be honest, huddled round their regular tables, playing dominoes and putting the world to rights with sayings and mannerisms that still make me smile today.

 

My accent is very broad when I'm with my family or friends as is theirs. I have to rain it in a bit when, believe it or not I'm with my mates from 7 miles away in Wakefield ,It's like a different language.
I have ,in my 52 years never heard anyone say , ee by gum.

 

Wee story.
I was in Liverpool with Sparky for a Bon Jovi concert. After the gig we went for a drink in a packed pub near Anfield.
A squeaky voiced scouser asked where we were from. I said the others were from Barnsley and I was from Dundee. He squeaked that he was originally from Dundee. I said well you have certainly lost your Dundee accent to which he replied he had to because no one could understand a word he was saying.

 

My grandad used to say "I'll go to the foot of our stairs". To indicate some kind of gravitas.

 

I think there are quite a high number of teachers who are northern teaching in Barnsley schools though. My eldest still says writ despite me picking her up on it