Hobbo's Poems
A quirky look at life from a Yorkshire poet and his dog's perspective
The Queen’s English
The Queen's English Received pronunciation, with little deviation, is required to be a big cheese. If you're born in the South with a plum in your mouth, then it's something you'll manage, with ease. Live further North, say somewhere like Wath, and your accent's looked on with disdain. If you wish to go far, be more than mere par, posh speech, you must learn how to feign.
We Aussies are posher than potpourri… we’re that far South, eh.
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🤣🤣🤣 That’s Southerners for you!
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It’s the truth!
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Yes, a Northern accent is still a huge disadvantage for most people. 😒
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For me, it’s the only Real English 😃
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Absolutely. Perhaps her Maj. should pick up the baton for us! 😂
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She bleedin’ well should!
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🤣
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I have a friend from Leicester, who for years taught uny in Southampton, and when her daughter started speaking “estuary”, they moved back up north to sort out her accent. Her daughter, now grown, currently lives in the east end of London and sounds like Eliza Doolittle.
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😂 Accents eh. There is a stigma about most Northern accents, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbrian, Scouse, Geordie…I could go on!
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I’ll just throw in some foreign accents like Swedes and Norwegians speaking English. Just listen to a clip of Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of NATO.
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😂 I think I have picked up the word for thanks from watching lots of subtitled Scandinavian dramas. Tak?
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Correct, in Swedish spelled “tack” but sounds the same.
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👍 tack!
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If you don’t already know the Proclaimers “throw the R away”, I think you’d like it. 😀
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Thanks Kate. I don’t, so I will check it out on you tube 🙂
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