He lives in Radcliffe-on-Trent and teaches at the University of Leicester. Answer (1 of 6): No. ), Humorous texts, such as Nottingham As it is Spoke, have used their phonetically spelled words to deliberately confuse non-natives of the region.[9]. South of the isogloss, the vowel sound in words like bath and laugh is generally long. Youve got people saying things like yoursen and oursen instead of yourself and ourselves. Having said all of that, the Notts dialect is alive and well, although it has so many sub-divisions of accent as to be almost uncountable. However, when I asked them about their identity, i.e. LeftLion is Nottinghams meeting point for information about whats going on in our city, from the established organisations to the grassroots. = Sheffield is the most identifiable accent to Chesterfield teenagers through variants of FACE and GOAT vowels (figure 2). * However, when people in Nottingham say a word such as 'house', it sounds more like 'aaas', which sounds much more southern to me. Comparison of General American and Received Pronunciation Although the speakers from Leicester that Ive recorded use many northern features, theyre still right at the southern edge of the northern dialect boundary. As for people in Nottingham, they say words like duke, tuna and Stuart without the y sound before the u vowel., *Saying bus in northern England - /bs/ - with a vowel sound similar to that in /pt/ (put). Neighbouring pit villages such as Whitwick ("Whittick") share the Coalville inflection as a result of the same huge influx of Derbyshire miners. The eldest generation of the area may exhibit a rapidly-declining merger of the phonemes /r/ (as in for) and /r/ (as in far) to the sound [], while leaving distinct /or/ (as in four), thus being one of the few American accents to still resist the horse-hoarse merger (while also displaying the card-cord merger). 'The concept of identity in the East Midlands'. We only dealt with a small sample of speakers. The second most important term of endearment in Notts. I should mention something called th-fronting. "The beauty of language, moreover, is its constantly changing nature, and how it is involved with and affected by every facet of peoples lives; ultimately, to study language is to study human beings and try to understand how and why they think and feel". For one, only half the people in the city actually talk like that, as people who live south of the Trent sound like they come from the Home Counties. WERE NOT SOUTH. French, Dutch & other communities language was absorbed into the local dialect. See Stephen Whyles's book A Scab is no Son of Mine for examples of speech of the Worksop area. We also hear people here say 'bus' with the 'oo' sound in 'put'. Were Midlands. Natalie teaches in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University within the subject area of Linguistics. The man replied: 'Nee-ow, av gorritt wimmee in this box!'. Too many people dismiss Nottinghamese as slang or as a lazy or slovenly way of speaking. There are differences in pronunciation between north and south Nottinghamshire. I investigated the use of two specific words. People dont have much experience of hearing East Midlands accents. "The word, twitchell, for a narrow lane is another one associated with Nottingham, but it may occur over a wider area; there are quite a few such local or regional terms for an alleyway in different parts of the country". People are moving house more often and settling in new areas and regional lines are becoming blurred.

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