Barnsley accent on ITV News - Barnsley Market

Fair te middlin owd lad is one of my blasts from the past. Been in Surrey 30 years but still not lost my accent according to the locals, nor would I ever want to

 

My mate used to think that and the locals where he lived , that is until I went visiting one weekend

 

Agree with the Bahrnsli pronunciation. I always like to really feign confusion and say "who taught you to say that, they were definitely 'avin you on!" I can't stand being baaaa'ed at, I'm not a collie dog.
It can be funny some of our own inverse snobbery about the accent though, I worked for Experience Barnsley for a few years in a public facing role and got told more than once that I didn't sound broad enough to be representing the town.

 

I once worked in an office with 2 lads from Tarn and 2 ladies from ‘Ull.
I was often approached by the ladies to translate the Barnsley accent, they found it impenetrable.

Most of the rest of the office were from West Yorks or Donny and we could understand everyone fine.

Although, if I had to pick on a Yorkshire accent that’s downright weird it’d be ‘Ull, it’s not just odd, it’s different from everywhere else.

 

Ok mate, now's the time to say it ... I saw Extreme at Sheffield arena. I was 12. I'm sorry.

Nuno Bettencourt played flight of the bumblebee on his own in a musical break.

 

It's a tough one that! I used to be an English teacher and I always toned down my accent (which is terribly cultivated anyway but obviously northern ) as I thought it was important to demonstrate standard English in English lessons at least. A lot of children will write as they talk and 'he were ' rather than 'he was' in a GCSE exam comes across as a major grammatical failure...

I really love accents, and it's of course hypocritical when we laud Shakespeare as gospel and he was writing in a west midlands dialect ..

 

I’ve been down south for years and never really think about my accent (although I’ve still got it). Mrs Statis has a very posh accent and when we’re out the contrast gets some weird reactions. We play on it by going to extremes.

If Mrs Statis is out with friends I’ve never met, I’ll roll up, wander over, “areight, how’s it gooin?” Everyone ignores this northern monkey so I hang around a bit until they get a bit uncomfortable. Then Mrs Statis will stop and in her most upper-class accent say to her friends “I’m awfully sorry, I haven’t introduced you. This is my husband.” The look of sheer horror and confusion on their faces is priceless.

 

Did Sam Barn worship the god Ickledo? Or am I confusing him with another cartoon character?

 

Is ‘should of’ instead of ‘should have’ also a major grammatical failure? I would imagine it’s more widespread.

 

I've worked with a few lasses from Beverley in the past; I love their accent and the way they talk.

 

Fern curl

I always found it amusing, my favourite accent is the North East, and I love the way it starts to show from about Scarborough up.

 

I accidentally saw Bon Jovo open for Kiss, when I was a kid. Not proud of it..

 

I like listening to Paulette Edwards on radio dee dah; she talks quite "proper" most of the time but always manages to drop one or two goooins in.

 

Sorry but what is wrong with Extreme?
I saw them at Celtic Park 91 supporting Bryan Adams along with Squeeze and Little Angels.
Great concert.

 

Nowt mate, just not my cup of tea. I think that was the same tour I saw them

 

Yes that's a big one.

 

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Bon Gelo. Kiss must have been fun tho!

 

I just hope that this year we're not pronouncing it Barnsley 0!

 

Not all that in the mid late 80s. 96 reunion was great though. Full on.!!

 

Squeeze are good, Bryan’s ok..