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How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:01 am
by redandblack
and which do you say and is it right?

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:04 am
by Dirko
With a L.

But I was also told to spell how H.O.W not H.I.O.W ;)

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:09 am
by Strawb
i speak the queens english
Now how od you get sothick out of southwark
and kisick out of keswick
and it is a castle not a carstle

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:11 am
by redandblack
SJABC wrote:With a L.

But I was also told to spell how H.O.W not H.I.O.W ;)


Reasonable point, SJABC :) :oops:

Corrected.

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:20 am
by redandblack
Strawb07 wrote:i speak the queens english
Now how od you get sothick out of southwark
and kisick out of keswick
and it is a castle not a carstle


Depends where you live, Strawb. You Melbourneites find a way to make the name O'Dwyer have four syllables :)

I think it's a castle not a cassell ;)

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:25 am
by Strawb
redandblack wrote:
Strawb07 wrote:i speak the queens english
Now how od you get sothick out of southwark
and kisick out of keswick
and it is a castle not a carstle


Depends where you live, Strawb. You Melbourneites find a way to make the name O'Dwyer have four syllables :)

I think it's a castle not a cassell ;)

valid point but it is funny how we australian's all speak engrish and yet weall speak it differently

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:16 am
by Psyber
Strawb07 wrote:i speak the queens english
Now how od you get sothick out of southwark
and kisick out of keswick
and it is a castle not a carstle
The same way one gets Chumleigh out of Cholmondeley, and Fanshaw out of Featherstonehaugh, old boy..
One goes to the right school, and one learns..... ;)

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:23 am
by Ian
....and anythink out of anything

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:33 am
by Psyber
Ian wrote:....and anythink out of anything
That's the wrong school old chap..

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:50 am
by Footy Chick
Strawb07 wrote:i speak the queens english
Now how od you get sothick out of southwark
and kisick out of keswick
and it is a castle not a carstle


rubbish. CASTLE is victorian lingo, not english lingo. I used to have this argument with my mates in Horsham all the time because I say CAASTLE. Just like they sall mAll and we say maaall.

If it was a mAll, it would only be spelt with one L.. right MAL? ;) You pronounce the "all"

We don't play "footbal" or make a phone "cal" do we? :lol:

Logical really ;)

btw, vulnerable is definitely with an "L" 8)

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:29 pm
by bayman
some victorians i know pronounce accident as accidint & the dents (from bumps etc) in a car are pronounced dints :shock: :shock: ........even when you explain that the word accident ends in dent & the dints should be dents.....even victorians who have lived here for over 20 years

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:56 pm
by GWW
Are Victorians the only state with these much different ways of saying "castle", "school" etc. Do people from NSW say Newcastle the SA or Victorian way??

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:16 pm
by Ian
I've heard some Queenslanders say dint instead of dent

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:22 pm
by A Mum
GWW wrote:Are Victorians the only state with these much different ways of saying "castle", "school" etc. Do people from NSW say Newcastle the SA or Victorian way??


I'm pretty sure the Victorian way.

We had an Aunty come visit us from NSW when we were kids - she spoke a whole different lot of pronunciations than we did - which made us kids laugh :lol:

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:12 pm
by SABRE
A Mum wrote:
GWW wrote:Are Victorians the only state with these much different ways of saying "castle", "school" etc. Do people from NSW say Newcastle the SA or Victorian way??

I'm pretty sure the Victorian way.
We had an Aunty come visit us from NSW when we were kids - she spoke a whole different lot of pronunciations than we did - which made us kids laugh :lol:

She may have spent time in Victoria 'A Mum'. I was born and schooled in Sydney and we were
always taught "castle" as in "cast a line", not "cassle". I never knew people anywhere said "cassle"
until years later whilst working in Central Victoria, the local 'mexicans' went apesh*t if you said
anything but "Casslemaine".
:lol:
Of course I continued to say "Castlemaine" correctly at every opportunity in an effort to help
the 'missing links' raise themselves from the primordial soup, but just like in football, those ignorant
peasants simply refuse to be educated.
;)

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:32 pm
by FattyLumpkin
We can fall off a wall on the way to a ball. Or shall we go to the ball via the mall? Bloody English!

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:45 pm
by bayman
english language is as bad as latin.....then again a lot of english words come from latin

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:56 pm
by Pseudo
SJABC wrote:With a L.

But I was also told to spell how H.O.W not H.I.O.W ;)

Nevertheless your educators were remiss in not teaching you to say "an L" ;)

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:57 pm
by Interceptor
The Vics definitely seem to have developed their own (questionable) combination of accent and pronounciations.
You can hear it from some of them in the media (mainly footy).

At Uni I can remember a lecturer who was originally from NSW and would refer to a "graf" on the board.
There were always certain students who would make a point of telling him the word was "graph" :)
My grandfather (also from NSW) used to pronounce school as "schule".

Went out with a girl up here who commented that I "had an accent".
Anyone else (from Adelaide) who has gone interstate and received similar comment?
I'm thinking not so much on certain words (like chance, dance, castle), but in general.

Re: How were you taught to say .............

PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 3:45 pm
by Psyber
Interceptor wrote:The Vics definitely seem to have developed their own (questionable) combination of accent and pronounciations.
You can hear it from some of them in the media (mainly footy).

At Uni I can remember a lecturer who was originally from NSW and would refer to a "graf" on the board.
There were always certain students who would make a point of telling him the word was "graph" :)
My grandfather (also from NSW) used to pronounce school as "schule".

Went out with a girl up here who commented that I "had an accent".
Anyone else (from Adelaide) who has gone interstate and received similar comment?
I'm thinking not so much on certain words (like chance, dance, castle), but in general.
When I was first in Melbourne I had problems with local typists mis-translating my dictation. Eventually I found a Tassie girl who could understand English, Adelaide style.

Over the years I started to sound more Victorian, speaking more quickly and with shorter vowels, but I never adopted "cassle" etc.
I kept my "a" long, and I'm moving back to my original speech patterns now I'm back here.