#143

which generic part of england is your accent from?

#144

I’m from Cornwall but don’t have a strong accent. My sister does though :man_shrugging:

I like the dialect. ‘Back a long’ to describe something that happened in the past. that’s nice.

#145

sounds great! Any famous cornwall people so I could get a picture of what the accent is?

#146

BOOOOOOOOOO!

I don’t mind really

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#147

I suppose it can be a bit of a mixed blessing, depending on how purely you want to speak. Personally I think it adds uniqueness and character.

#148

you know how english people think they´re speaking spanish by adding an a or an o after an english word? spanish people do the same but remove the letter. get a lot of the following:

duck - pat (pato)
cow - vac (vaca)
cat - gat (gato)

another thing is no one knows how to say central heating here. They try and say it as ´calefacc´ (calefacción) and I always want to shout ´DREAM OF CALIFORNICATION´ when they do it

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#149

best one i´ve heard is ´footing´ when the guy meant ´jogging´
<3

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#150

I lived in Cornwall for 3 years and still thought a Devonian woman I worked with a few years later was from Scotland

I’m absolute cack at recognising accents.

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#151

get northern irish and scottish mixed up all the time.

#152

^ this message brought to you by colonialism.
:wink::grin:

They’re our celtic cousins and a great bunch o’ lads and lasses to be fair and yes there’s Ulster Scots etc so a fair bit of crossover.

Weirdly had some Scottish people think I was Mancunian once though.

#153

as a southerner, they´re easy to mistake if you´re not paying attention and hear the accent in the background.

#154

Aye I was only messing.
There’s some accents in NI that I struggle with ffs :rofl:
This would be a good thread for someone to put that DiS map into.

#155

Looking up Ulster Scots on Wikipedia I ended up here, look at some of these amazing names:

The McGillycuddy of the Reeks, Lord of Doonebo
Prince of the Fews, Don Carlos O’Neill, 12th Marquis of Granja
Tadhg na Mainistreach Mac Carthaigh Mór, King of Desmond
The Count O’Donnell of Austria, O’Donell von Tyrconnell
O’Nelly, The Count O’Nelly of Austria, Commander of the 72nd Bohemian Regiment

#156

any jacobites in there?

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#157

Only Irish sounding one of the bunch

#158

I think a lot were displaced by James I’s plantation of Ulster so I reckon not a love of sympathy for our true monarchs, alas.

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#159

Some of those names probably originate from the Jacobite flight from Ireland, or Irish mercenaries fighting abroad!

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#160


In the Papal bull Ilius of 1555, the Pope had conferred the title King of Ireland on King Philip II of Spain when he was married to Queen Mary.

this explains all of the ‘Don Carlos’ type stuff to an extent.

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#162

tl;dr

thank you, that’s really interesting

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#163

None that I can think of. I reckon having a Cornish accent’s probably quite a big barrier to getting on tv/films etc unless it’s poldark or doc marten. Probs more so than any other of the Celtic Nations. No evidence for this, that’s just something I’m throwing out there.
There’s got to be some though.

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