Things others point out about your speech that you had no clue about
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Apparently I say 'dayte' and 'playte' instead of 'date' and 'plate' and I've probably been inserting random y's in other similar words too. I had never noticed it before until a new friend pointed it out.
I swear I can't hear myself properly.
Have you ever been told something about your speech that you've never realised before?
I swear I can't hear myself properly.
Have you ever been told something about your speech that you've never realised before?
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i also apparently say cinemaS and asdaS, which im told is annoying?
I just came on here to post the exact same thing! The first part not the second part. I'm one of those who get annoyed by the Asdas, Tescos thing :D
See, that's the thing, I've tried saying 'date' or 'plate' another way but I can't >:(
but when I say 'dayte' on purpose, it sounds so different to what I'm saying. So how does it sound like that to others?
Can you tell I'm paranoid about the way I speak/sound?
I think I have a slight lisp too
cinemas, that's one I've never heard before. I hear Asdas and Tescos quite a lot though. Not that annoying to me really
I say Dezember. Think it might be a Scottish thing though.
I'm kind of confused by this lol.
Do you mean you say it with a 'y' sound in the middle. Like 'day-yit' play-yit'? If that makes sense
Is so funny when people come back from holiday casually dropping insertcountry-isms in! "gee I enjoyed a great yoh-ghurt this morrnin"
People always point out that I act out whatever im saying really graphically with my hands. I never noticed. So embarrassing but can't help it
Obviously most of what I say is the norm around here but when I visit the in laws in Essex they still snigger at the r's I insert into words like five and nine, they become farve and narne, though I do point out that they insert r's into words like bath so it all evens out.
Same, I'm from Lanarkshire but when I spend the day with my friend from Edinburgh I end up speaking like him.
Haha i suppose i can kind of understand why its annoying.. I have a friend who refers to Matalan as mataland, and that does irritate me a bit.
Better than round here, where people say "I have an ideal! But I need to go to Asdal first"
I actually have the same speech thing as you. I remember I first became aware when I told my friend she had lost "weyt" and she told me I always add y's to certain words. I hear it when I do it now, but it's a hard habit to break.
Something to do with ending with a vowel sound. Bristol must originally have been 'Bristow', as '-stow' is an Anglo Saxon word for 'place'. Looks like that adding '-l' to a word ending with a vowel sound must be a very old Bristol thing indeed.;-)
I've heard this a few times
I think you mentioned this in another thread where I had a moan about people saying Asdas. Not sure if it was you but someone did. I've never heard that in my life, thank God I think it would tip me over the edge
ETA: Also have a habit of picking up peoples' accents, especially American. Probably the years I spent living around and amongst them.