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James Woodcock
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Wuthering Heights has much of its prose written phonetically
(Yorkshire). I found I could only understand it if I read out loud, in my
Yorkshire accent.

& then I could understand it fine. I do wonder what American’s think of it
as I have found (& this is no slight on Americans, it’s just what I have
experienced) that you can often struggle with strong accents such as
Yorkshire, Scottish or an Indian accent.
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James, in my job i often have to deal with both Scottish
and Indian call centres, and i struggle with both
accents, but strangely not a Northern Irish call centre.
As for "tin tin tin" that`s very much how we`d say it in
the Black Country! "Weem gooin `um"
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James Woodcock
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Bill, maybe it’s because my junior school had Pakistani & Indian
ethnicity kids bussed in that I can follow their accents.
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I grew up with a diverse mix of races too,so i doubt it.
I think it`s the thick homegrown accents, i have as much
trouble with broad Scottish accents on the phone.
Conversely, i bet they have as much trouble with mine!
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sometime through my high school years i found out about Unifon - a 40 character alphabet based on the principle of one letter per phoneme.

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I tend to agree with George Bernard Shaw. He felt we needed fewer letters, not more!

(For instance, since the letter "C" has no distinctive sound of its own, being pronounced as either "S" or "K", I've said for years that we should use it in place of "CH", so "curc" for "church", for instance. "School" would be "skool".

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Since 1936, D.C. Thomson have had two comic strips in their Scottish paper The Weekly News - The Broons (The Browns) and Oor Wullie (Our Willie). Both strips feature the characters using colloquial speech. I used to have some of the older albums and although occasionally extra time was needed to decipher some of the dialogue it was no hardship as it meant more time to savour Dudley D. Watkins beautiful artwork.






The adult magazine/comic Viz is heavily inspired by D.C. Thomson's comics which makes for a fun read. It currently has a strip called The Broon Windsors, featuring the royal family talking in Broons-style Scottish (with Prince William sometimes dressed as Oor Wullie).




Various other characters have local accents as well:

Sid the Sexist is from Newcastle (a Geordie)




I'm not entirely sure about 8 Ace - somewhere up north! 




And Cockney Wanker is self-explanatory!





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Robbie, i understand all of those! The 8 Ace one, we say
"Tek" in the Black Country. "Tek me `um"=Take me home!
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8 Ace, with it’s use of t’ & various other bits could be Yorkshire.

Hmm, when you see some things spelt phonetically, accents can blend
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Nowt wrong wi' bein' oop north. Builds character.
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