Speak Nottinghamese

[David sheridan 157]

Alrate youth ive heard said in bulwell  .

[mary1947 1,879]

When we lived in South Africa first time I went to the green grocer's I ask for 1LD  nobby greens,  did I get a disgus  look from the shop keeper.

 

Was down in Surrey on a vist to see master's county cousin's  ice cream van came around cous ask what i wanted an orange sucker please said I WELL !!! you could have cut the air with a knife.

 

WARNING      If ever you visit Germany never, ever , ask for a carton of mushy pea's its seems it's a very rude in Germany.

 

Going back to South Africa when my eldest started school,  just arriving from the UK he had a little bit of Nottinghamshire in him. One day the teacher ask me to go in and see her, Can I ask ,  said the teacher what,  is buuuter, and buuuueesss???  well i could not help but smile. it must have r=taken me an hour at least to explaine 

 

[mary1947 1,879]

Not to far away from Nottm is a place called Hucknall  we moved there in the 70s. I thought that after living in St Anns i had heard nearly all Nottm sayings,  but my neighbour from Hucknall one  day said      "Are yu goin down pad then" I did not have a clue what he had said.  What he meant was

Are you going  down the path .

[LizzieM 9,231]

My Mum was beautifully spoken, despite growing up in the Meadows she was well ‘self-educated’ and a brilliant user of the English language.  Dad also spoke with little accent but I heard the ‘Nottingham’ in him very clearly when we spoke on the phone.  My English teacher at grammar school thought I’d had elocution lessons, which I hadn’t, my parents couldn’t have afforded that.  Living in the Home Counties for 30 years never changed my accent, I never spoke with a ‘southern accent’ but since returning to Nottingham I can turn on the Nottinghamese when I want to but it’s usually as a bit of a joke, I know my Mum would cringe.  
But at the end of the day, you can take the girl out of Arnold but you can’t take Arnold out of the girl.

[The Pianoman 1,482]

I seem to have more of a Nottingham accent when I am with other Nottingham-ites! I spose its cuz I know everybody ull no woram talking' abaht  midducks. Although I have lived at Eastwood a long time I have never absorbed the place. It's just a convenient place to live.

[siddha 797]

I speak Nottinghameze  when with family or others from Nottingham. Like many I developed a kind of chameleon like way of adapting to differing dialects it is sort of like an ability to hear the music of a dialect. One thing I always held onto wherever I was in the world was the use of the short A sound in all usage. So I laffed not larfed  and bathed but not barthed.  I do dislike toff lingo like what Liz + Phil used and Charlie does now and Jacob R.M. et al. I think that in many settings language serves to divide us. 

[Oztalgian 2,858]

It is coming on one year since I lost my brother and I really do miss our "putting the world to rights" chats and discussing good beers and single malt whisky. I especially remember the times when he lapsed into broad Nottinghamese that I had to ask him to slow down as I could not understand him due to the speed and accent. We were born and brought up in Bliduth and even after almost 50 years in Oz I have not lost my accent but trying to understand my brothers accent over the phone was hard and often had to stop him and ask for explanations.