british accent

STYLISTICS

PRESENTATION INTRODUCTION

• Subject: Stylistics• Topic: British Accent

INTRODUCTION BY RABIA MURTAZA

MANCHESTER ACCENT

British English• Form of English used in United Kingdom.• Covers all English dialects in UK.

Dialect • Regional or social verity of language.• Distinguished by pronunciation, grammar etc.• Varity differing from standard literary language.

Accent • Part of dialect• Way of pronouncing words.

MANCHESTER

MANCHESTER ACCENT

Dialect of Manchester• Mancunian is a dialect of Manchester.• Originally develop from Lancastrain dialect.• Over enunciation of vowel sounds.• None for a glottal reinforcement (/k/, /p/, /t/)• Avoid Ng. Coalescence

MANCHESTER ACCENT

Manchester’s Eminent Words or Phrases• Having a buzz.• Our kid (sibling or friend).• Scran (food)• Gafi (house or flat)• “the dibble” (refering to police)

LIVERPOOL ACCENT

Scouse • Scouse  is an accent and dialect of English found primarily in

the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and closely associated with the city of Liverpool.

• Scouse is notable in some circumstances for a fast, highly accented manner of speech, with a range of rising and falling tones not typical of most of northern England.

• Irish influences include the pronunciation of the name of the letter "H" as /heɪtʃ/ and the 2nd Person plural (you) as 'youse/yous/use' /juːz/.

LIVERPOOL ACCENT

[ɜː] as in 'fur' [ɛː]

[ɛə] as in 'square' [ɛː]

[riːd] as in 'read' [iːi ]

[sliːp] as in 'sleep' [i]

[bʌtə] as in 'butter' [bʊtɛ]

[fɔːk] as in 'fork' [fɔːx]

[bɑːθ] as in 'bath [baf]

[ʊ] as in 'book' [uː]

[ʊ] as in 'cook' [uː]

LIVERPOOL ACCENT

Scouse is a non-rhotic accent, pronouncing /r/ only at the beginning of a syllable and between vowels, but not at the end of a syllable.

•/θ/ becomes /f/ in all environments. [θɪnk] becomes [fɪnk] for "think.

[k] pronounced as [x] at the ends of some words.•/ð/ becomes /v/ in all environments except word-initially, in which case it becomes /d/. [dɪðə]becomes [dɪvɛ] for "dither"

[flɔːr] as in 'floor' [flɔː]

[wɝd] as in 'word' [wɛːd]

LIVERPOOL ACCENT•Other Scouse features include:•The use of 'giz' instead of 'give us'.•The use of the term 'made up' to portray the feeling of happiness or joy in something. For example, 'I'm made up I didn't go out last night'.

•The term 'sound' is used in many ways. It is used as a positive adjective such as 'it was sound' meaning it was good. It is used to answer questions of our wellbeing, such as 'I'm sound' in reply to 'How are you?' The term can also be used in negative circumstances to affirm a type of indifference such as 'I'm dumping you'. The reply 'sound' in this case translates to 'yeah fine', 'ok', 'I'm fine about it', 'no problem' etc.

BIRMINGHAM ACCENT

• Second largest city of England.• Regional capital of west midlands.• 5.3 million population.

BIRMINGHAM ACCENT

• British Accents Received pronunciation/RP Cockney Estuary Southwest British Accent Midlands Accent Northern England Accent Geordie Welsh

BIRMINGHAM ACCENT

Comparison between RP and Midlands Accent• Vowel• “Oy”,[ɒi] is used instead of ‘i’ • “u” is lengthen to become ‘oo’[ʊ]• ‘o’ and ‘a’ are lazy and under articulate in some

words.• ‘i’ in becomes ‘ee’[i:]• “You” is pronounced ‘yow’• Diphthong[aʊ] is pronounced ‘æʊ’

BIRMINGHAM ACCENT• Not every written 'r' is articulated. RP • The 'g' in an 'ng' formation is over-articulated at the 

end of a word, or when followed by a vowel.• 'H's are dropped ,except when emphasis is required. • 'T's are occasionally omitted from the end of words.

DialectsBloke (gentleman) Gob (mouth) Gorra cobb on (bad mood)Bostin (excellent) Mizzley (cold and wet)Caggy Handed (left handed) Blartin (crying)

Cake hole (mouth) Morkins (stupid)Cocka (cousin) Sup (whats up)Coppit (catch this) Donnies (hands ) Wench (girl)

NOTTINGHAM ACCENT

SELECTED CITY - NOTTINGHAM• Nottingham is a county in the East Midlands of England.• Centrally located, it is within easy reach of most of the country.• London is 124 miles away, Manchester 71 miles and Birmingham

49 miles.• French, Dutch & other communities language was absorbed into

the local dialect.

NOTTINGHAM ACCENT

• Unique accent. • Nottingham has specific dialect and expressions.• Variable accent if one moves around the county.• The Nottingham dialect is alive and well.• It has almost uncountable accents of sub-divisions.• It is difficult to assess who has the strongest accent in Nottingham.

NOTTINGHAM ACCENT

COMMON NOTTINGHAM TERMINOLOGY

Standard English Nott’s Accent

Standard English Nott’s Accent

DUCK Dook FRIENDLY Friendley

YOUTH Yooerth YELLOW Yella

JULIE Juleh REALLY Realleh

TAKE Tek DIRTY Dotteh

BUS Bos CITY City

MELODY Melodeh JUST Joost

ABOUT Abaaht SHIRT Shot

BATH Baff TO ter

NOTTINGHAM ACCENT

COMMON SENTENCES & PHRASES• “I was about to have a bath before going to town.”

“I wor joost abaaht ter tek a baff , before gooin’ dahn tahn.”• “My mom says my shirt is dirty.”

“Me mam sez me shot is dottey.”• Take it home.

Tek it Om.

NOTTINGHAM ACCENT

PERSONAL PRONOUNS DIFFER FROM STANDARD ENGLISH

e.g "It eent theirn; it's ourn!" (It isn't theirs; it's ours!)

Standard English

The Notts English

Standard English

The Notts English

Theirs Theirn Ours Ourn

You Yo Yours Yourn

BRISTON ACCENT

BRISTOL• Bristol is England's sixth & the United Kingdom's

eighth most populous city.• Bristol is the largest centre of culture, employment

and education in the region.• Its prosperity has been linked with the sea since its

earliest days.

BRISTON ACCENT

DIALECT• A dialect of English is spoken by some Bristol citizen known

colloquially as Bristolian, "Bristolese“.• There are many dialects of Bristol people.• Bristol natives speak with a rhotic accent in which the r in

words like car is pronounced.• Bristol people use “L” when the words end in “a” or “o”sound.• Example:• Area becomes areal and bacteria becomes bacterial etc.

BRISTON DIALECT• Strangers feel as if there is an “L” after the vowel, e.g.• "Africa is a malaria area” but according to Bristolian accent

this sentence is pronounced as "Africa is a malarial areal.“• Difference in dialect from standard language.• Bristol Dialect Standard English use• Where's that to? Where is it?• Casn't Can't• Lush Nice/good• Gert/Gurt Really big

LEEDS ACCENT

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LEEDS ACCENT

DIALECTS OF LEEDS• The dialect spoken in Leeds named Yorkshire.• RP is followed.• Yorkshire accents are non-rhotic.• Rhotic consonants are not pronounced.• Vowel sounds are followed.• It contains a number of non-standard features.