Par-ee

[flipnflap]

It appears to be trendy for the youth of today to say the word 'party' as 'par-ee', and 'thirty' as 'thir-ee'. Makes me cringe. You?

[boxtops]

It's not youth, flipnflap, it's just bad Estuary English.

[Buenchico]

Is there any such thing as GOOD estuary English, Boxtops? ;-)

[jno]

a form of glottal stop, I suppose. I was impressed to find that they do it in the east end of Fiji as well as the East End of London.

[joggerjayne]

Like at Ka-e Moss's thir-eeith birfday par-ee ?

[boxtops]

LOL chris, I should have said "bad (Estuary English) pronunciation" :-)))

[joggerjayne]

"good" Estuary English ?

Well, surely EE is just another regional accent.

Can we make subjective judgements about whether an accent is good or bad ?

I mean, obviously the Midlands accent is bad, but, you know.

[boxtops]

LOL jj, when I lived in Brum, they took the mickey out of my suvvern accent... especially when I was waiting for the BUSS.

[alexanderd]

well how about bath and path? when did they put the R in it for barth and parth

[joggerjayne]

LOL Boxy ...

Most of the population here is pretty migrant, but the indigenous Sussex accent is utterly ghastly.

Thankfully, not many people still have the accent and, hopefully, it will die out.

[treetops1]

When they moved them down Sarth Alexandered.

[joggerjayne]

alex ...

"bath" doesn't need an "r" because it's already pronounced "baaath"

[alexanderd]

I thought the R was silent like the P

[joggerjayne]

p ?

[alexanderd]

Come on Jayne I bet you have had a p in the bath!!!

[joggerjayne]

Aaaaah ... I see.

No, actually.

Maybe in the shower.

[ChuckFickens]

"Can we make subjective judgements about whether an accent is good or bad ?"

Agree.... modern knowledge is more likely to be passed on as x3 + 3x2 + 3x + 1. than it is as "I wandered lonely as a cloud. That floats on high o'er vales and hills"

Language pedants get a life

[joggerjayne]

Chuck ...

Presumably Wordsworth would have had a bit of a weird Coronation Street accent.

[boxtops]

..and the Brontes therefore were distinctly Northern....

[joggerjayne]

So, Boxy ...

"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly."

Would become ...

"Eee, lad, Ah bain't sayin' as tha's reet grand, though Ah's fair fond of thee."

[alexanderd]

thats good Jayne and here was me thinking you were a Brighton belle!!