Our accent is something we should be proud of!
It is part of our identity....
Scousers, Geordies, Glaswegians are extremely proud of theirs..why shouldn't we?
Too long the Cornish accent has been the subject of derision and ridicule, treated by many as a mark of being ill educated or such the like.
All the locals kids now are speaking with mock-ney accents with an urban ethnic slant - and are living with a Londoncentric view of what a Cornish accent should sound like - more of a comical Norfolk meets Somerset.
I find this kind of thing is not helpful as is far from accurate
Mine never used to be quite so Cornish when I was at College even though I was born and bred here and of Cornish 'stock'. I have grown proud of it now and use the dialect even more - why not ? I am as good as the next person. You'll probably hear my tones on the radio if you get to listen in.
I still have a strong Cornish accent, although I've lived away from cornwall for 36years. Almost everyone I talk to enjoy the lilt and often say " I love listening to you talk". Sadly it's disappearing back home with the movement of people, even back in the 80s when we spent 3 months there, our children picked up an accent but it wasn't anything like mine.
This will be my final post on here.
To those I've upset I'd say this:
I don't honestly give a ****, I'd be a liar if I apologised - I didn't set out to upset anyone, I just typed what I felt like typing (most of the time...if you bit, you bit)
To those I've made smile I'd say this:
thanks for smiling, pard!
Accent? It hasn't died yet!
Fer a Cornish man, ya seem pretty dinki-di to me. Strewth, I know I have been a bit of a nong from time to time and I certainly hope it weren't nuttin I wrote that made ya feel that way. If it was it was a furphy I tells ya.
Anyways, I hope ya have a beaut, bonzo life and don't let the mozzies git ya.
Hoo-roo.
I do my best in all aspects to ensure that strine continues to flourish in my region and americanisms don't take over.
I wish we had a bloody good pasty shop in Australia. They don't exist here though. Bugger.
Mebbe I'll take a package from work and start me own. I'll have to be trained on the pastry though. As hard as I have tried, mine comes up a little 'short' each time. (A pastry chef joke!)
Maybe you should start one. Whilst you're about it, you can put up some historical facts up on the wall, and get more people educated on Kernow! Grass Valley is way north from me, so the last pasty I had was made by my visiting family, last year!
The West Cornwall pasty company are slowly creeping up Britain. I had a delicious one in St. Alban's but they haven't got as far as Sheffield yet
We have a company called Pirates pasties but I wouldn't recommend them.
Historically luncheon was a midday meal and dinner was an evening meal. Tea was literally when you had a cup of tea and some cake usually mid-afternoon (4 ish) to keep you going until dinner and show off that you could afford tea and porcelain.
But as a kid we had dinner ladies at school not lunch ladies and we'd ask mum what's for tea when we got home. I don't know when and how it all got mixed around but that's the way it was for us.
As for the accent I don't have a strong Cornish accent because of my upbrining in London but kids at school used to call me pasty and people do still notice a bit of an accent mixed in with a blend of London slang and middle English.
Was the same for me, but I didn't have supper as a meal - more of a snack before bed. I worked for a bunch of folks over on a Newlyn farm that had kroust at regular times between all that, too. I guess people would ask why we'd eat so much - nowadays, but Cornish industry was founded on hard labour, and all that food was essential to keep going throughout the day.
I always referred to the evening meal as tea. Unfortunately, people here don't know what you're talking about if you say 'you're going home for tea' - they'd think you were some quaint Englishman going home for a cup of Earl Grey, so I've been forced to talk about dinner as the evening meal.
I'm still trying to find a good pasty shop around my area. There's got to be one somewhere...
That's nothing, when I was at Uni. I befriended an American exchange student. One day in the pub a bloke came up and asked him if he could 'bum a fag'. Now my friend had learned what bum meant over here so he said with a bewildered look on his face "whatever makes you happy man" wondering why the bloke had asked his permission...lol...it was priceless.
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Important Information regarding Air Southwest flights to/from Newquay Airport.
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