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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Accent-uate the Positive! #61404 03/16/02 05:20 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi OP Carpal Tunnel OP Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England I work for a large company in the Midlands. It encompasses a lot of skill sets, and the staff come from all over Britain (and Ireland) and France. I'm constantly blown away by the accents. You are usually constantly changing mental gears in meetings to accommodate the massacre of the language by the current speaker. However, the worst of the lot are local to Birmingham. The business is based in Dudley, formerly a small town outside Birmingham (no Milum, not that Birmingham) but now part of the conurbation which takes in the whole area including Wolverhampton. Even within that area, the range of accents or brogues is impressive, even if the brogues themselves usually aren't. A Brummie (person from Birmingham, or Brum) always sounds as if he or she is moaning about something, even when he or she is deliriously happy - or perhaps especially when deliriously happy. These verbally-challenged clods have the temerity to criticise my accent, of course. So I fight back. Dudley is pronounced by most of the English-speaking world as "Dud"+"lee". But not in Brum. There, it's pronounced "Dould"+"laaay", the "Dould" sounding like "could" or "would". So I started saying "... Dudley, oh, sorry, you won't understand that, Douldlaaay." I stopped saying it after a while - a joke is a joke after all - but others have taken up the clarion call. I was in a meeting yesterday when one of the analysts on my team, who hails from Essex (yes, there are boys from there as well as girls), said "And on Wednesday we'll be back in Dudley - sorry, Douldlaaay - to help the developers." Everyone from my team creased; everyone else just looked confused. That made my team even more helpless. The analyst who said it was just beside himself when he realised what he'd done. He went bright red and glared at me. It's probably time for me to move on! My work here is done. The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Accent-uate the Positive! #61405 03/16/02 04:32 PM Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 688 A Angel addict Angel addict A Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 688 Everyone from my team creased... Interesting story CK, and this is an interesting phrase that I had never heard before. Am I to assume, from context, that creased is like cringe; a furrow of ones brow, drawing your face together and squinting your eyes? I can just picture it! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Accent-uate the Positive! #61406 03/16/02 04:44 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear CK: "Everyone from my team creased; " Translation, Please? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Accent-uate the Positive! #61407 03/16/02 05:12 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Ooh, I can answer that question! My old friend Philip told me that a creaser is something that makes your face creased by a wide smile. (Believe me, I was envisioning something else entirely.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Accent-uate the Positive! #61408 03/16/02 09:34 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago CapK - That's the best *one to date! ROTFLMFAO Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Accent-uate the Positive! #61409 04/16/02 04:49 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta creased up -- laughing so much you're bent over double with a big crease in your belly. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Accent-uate the Positive! #61410 04/16/02 04:59 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 137 Usually the western United Sta... L ladymoon member ladymoon member L Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 137 Usually the western United Sta... I think I'm going to have to add creased to my vocabulary. I like the sound of it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Accent-uate the Positive! #61411 04/16/02 01:18 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 R RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah R Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 Ladymoon, be our guest, but! Us brits are not shy in adopting argot from all over the world, so we are more than chuffed when others take a liking to ours. That's a great story, CapK, but my wonder is that the Essex guy was embarrassed by it - on the whole, people from different regions aren't particulary over-sensitive to people taking the gentle mick out of accents - so long as it is done in a friendly fashion. Yorkshire people don't even think you are taking the mick - they just think you are trying to "talk proper" !! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Accent-uate the Positive! #61412 04/16/02 03:57 PM A Anonymous Unregistered Anonymous Unregistered A In reply to: taking the mick ?? elaborate, por favor?? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Accent-uate the Positive! #61413 04/16/02 04:59 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 taking the mick = teasing (also rendered expansively as "extracting the michael") hi, tsuwm! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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