The other day Monkey, Myera, Andy and I were chatting as friends do and we got, some how, onto accents. I’ve long known that parts of my speech are a little different than other peoples, and Monkey is constantly telling me off for my pronunciation of ‘Phoenix’, but I’d never exactly known how much different until we started talking about this the other day. Even Myera said it was strange!
Apparently, not only do I have a very prevalent Dorset accent [elongated vowels occasionally and missing 't's], but I have hints of Australian [the 'o' in 'don't'], Kiwi [some 'a' sounds], cockney, Scottish, Welsh and Bristonian [hard 'a' when talking about 'bath' the place]. In addition to this I, apparently, drop my ‘t’s a hell of a lot or otherwise just imply them, drop ‘th’ at the beginning of words, imply silent ‘h’s [in 'what' or 'phoenix' for example] and mispronounce certain words [namely 'phoenix' and 'Orleans'].
I honestly don’t really know where most of this has come from. Obviously the Dorset is either from my mum or my maternal grandparents, and I know the ‘phoenix’ and ‘Orleans’ thing is from my dad. I expect some of the welsh is from my Nan, but the rest of it? No clue. I’ve never been to Australasia, Scotland, Bristol nor lived in London. Maybe I am or was just really susceptible to accents.
All I know is that it gets kinda interesting when ‘that’ turns into ‘a[t]‘, and I don’t think even the mathematician/ linguist from threshold could work out where I was from.
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