Newbie here! SInce I'm a Nottingham girl, this seems an appropriate thread to make my debut!
In my experience, you can go to places like Derby, Chesterfield and Leicester and hear very similar sounding accents. With Leicester, there is a hint of Brummie in it, whereas Derby and Nottingham have similar accents, though it's much stronger in Nottingham.
It seems to be a curious combination of Southern, Yorkshire and Birmingham all spliced together in a very curious combination. If you don't live here, I think it's hard to distinguish a Nottingham accent when you hear it, but if you do, and you hear it somewhere like on TV, it's absolutely unmistakeable. It's also very catchy!
Newbie here! SInce I'm a Nottingham girl, this seems an appropriate thread to make my debut!
In my experience, you can go to places like Derby, Chesterfield and Leicester and hear very similar sounding accents. With Leicester, there is a hint of Brummie in it, whereas Derby and Nottingham have similar accents, though it's much stronger in Nottingham.
It seems to be a curious combination of Southern, Yorkshire and Birmingham all spliced together in a very curious combination. If you don't live here, I think it's hard to distinguish a Nottingham accent when you hear it, but if you do, and you hear it somewhere like on TV, it's absolutely unmistakeable. It's also very catchy!
Welcome to DS ! There are a few of us from Nottingham on here. I don't think I have much of a Nottingham accent , though, certainly not a strong one , but I did live in London for a bit , so may have lost it.
I lived there for a couple of years 'dont have a mardie' is quite common. (dont be in a mood). Never heard 'Duck' apart from in Derby.
I always assumed mardie was quite common!
The Nottingham accent is quite muted. As a Derbyshire girl who works in Nottingham I always thought I had a muted accent myself... Apparently I sound rural to them...
I love the Nottingham accent
Loughborough I like the accent there as well [pretty similar I think?]
I'm from South Yorkshire the accents around here are just rubbish! :sleep:
Nottingham's really weird for accents, they can be completely different in really small areas. I can remember being on a school trip and there were some kids from less than 10 miles from where I came from and I could barely understand a word they were saying. I guess that's the Bullwell accent for you though lol.
One thing that's always stuck in my mind when I talk about the Nottingham accent is what Bob Hoskins said once about it when he was interviewed about it when TwentyFourSeven came out:
O: But was it difficult to adopt the Midlands accent?
BH: What's difficult is that Nottingham is a town with people from all over, a moving population—a lot of project housing and stuff like that. When I got there, I thought I'd try to get a Nottingham accent together, but then everyone I met had a different accent! I went into a pub, and this old guy swore to me that he had been born in Nottingham and his was a true Nottingham accent—and if I treated him to a few drinks, he would teach me his accent. Well, he used to go home drunk every night, and I still don't know if he came from Nottingham or not.
I have family who live near Newark and know the area very well and have never heard any of those words and phrases before... never mind understand them!!
I have family who live near Newark and know the area very well and have never heard any of those words and phrases before... never mind understand them!!
That type of lingo is most commonly used by the gypsies, people from the rougher areas and kids. Every school kid knows what 'someone's chorn me chockers' means (stolen my shoes) but very few adults would seriously speak like that.
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Lol, yeah, I've not heard that for a while.
Or gearer's beng in the shurra.
Strange language isn't it - I have no idea how these words should be spelt.
In my experience, you can go to places like Derby, Chesterfield and Leicester and hear very similar sounding accents. With Leicester, there is a hint of Brummie in it, whereas Derby and Nottingham have similar accents, though it's much stronger in Nottingham.
It seems to be a curious combination of Southern, Yorkshire and Birmingham all spliced together in a very curious combination. If you don't live here, I think it's hard to distinguish a Nottingham accent when you hear it, but if you do, and you hear it somewhere like on TV, it's absolutely unmistakeable. It's also very catchy!
We from Brighton say it when someone is about to bang their head on a low beam.
Welcome to DS ! There are a few of us from Nottingham on here. I don't think I have much of a Nottingham accent , though, certainly not a strong one , but I did live in London for a bit , so may have lost it.
I always assumed mardie was quite common!
The Nottingham accent is quite muted. As a Derbyshire girl who works in Nottingham I always thought I had a muted accent myself... Apparently I sound rural to them...
Agree.
"Encher" haven't you.
Newark has a whole new vocabulary.
I don't.
Loughborough I like the accent there as well [pretty similar I think?]
I'm from South Yorkshire the accents around here are just rubbish! :sleep:
Just the word Bulwell gives me flashbacks and makes my stomach churn.
One thing that's always stuck in my mind when I talk about the Nottingham accent is what Bob Hoskins said once about it when he was interviewed about it when TwentyFourSeven came out:
It's not Nottingham as such, but Rebecca Adlington is pretty close.
But it read from the page like a lancashire or yorkshire accent
Maybe because I'm from Lancs i was reading it in my accent..............:p
But when i knew people from Nottingham and visited there it seemed pretty non-descript............
Thank you was off having a listen on youtube
Su Pollard is from Nottingham
Rebecca is from Mansfield... there's even a swimming pool there named after her
He he, very typical
I have family who live near Newark and know the area very well and have never heard any of those words and phrases before... never mind understand them!!
That type of lingo is most commonly used by the gypsies, people from the rougher areas and kids. Every school kid knows what 'someone's chorn me chockers' means (stolen my shoes) but very few adults would seriously speak like that.