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Tommy Toes
01 Nov 15 18:43
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Has anyone else noticed that most young women in their teens and twenties now offer this way of delivering a spoken valediction - usually in a cod, high-pitched, American way, no matter how they usually speak or in which dialect?

Totally bizarre and so phonus-bolonus it makes them sound even thicker than they usually are.

Just where has it come from?

Or is it only in Stoke?!
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Report David Fishwick Minibus Sales • November 1, 2015 7:48 PM GMT
they obviously have no sole
Report Tommy Toes • November 1, 2015 7:49 PM GMT
Oh very good.
Report Tommy Toes • November 1, 2015 8:43 PM GMT
Thinking about it; it's definitely not just in Stoke and it's not restricted to women in their teens and twenties as I had a call from someone from Essex the other day who signed off with the ridiculous "Thenk yeaww", who sounded previously in the call as someone who was in her thirties.

Plus, I can think of numerous "Thenk yeawws" from women in their thirties (possibly 40s?) here in Stoke recently.

I'll bet they all have a (if not numerous) tattoo(s) too.
Report David Fishwick Minibus Sales • November 1, 2015 9:16 PM GMT
they're from all over the plaice
Report Foinavon • November 1, 2015 9:25 PM GMT
Bit of an ear hake sometimes.
Report Coachbuster • November 1, 2015 10:07 PM GMT
a lot of folk esp women in the south east esp outer London ,Essex have taken on a  pronounced aussie  dialect of late  - not sure why that is
Report Coachbuster • November 1, 2015 10:07 PM GMT
mainly  under 30s
Report David Fishwick Minibus Sales • November 1, 2015 11:18 PM GMT

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVtW6BYDMs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1psfT6qSQnA
Report a bitofinterest • November 1, 2015 11:36 PM GMT
MARVELLOUS STUFF SCAMPI!
Report tictacman1 • November 1, 2015 11:48 PM GMT
Laugh^^^^ Tommy taken the bait
Report Tommy Toes • November 2, 2015 4:34 AM GMT
That's exactly it - in the second link - Fishy, especially the second and third girls shown.

Where the hell has this ridiculous way of speaking come from?
Report Gin • November 2, 2015 9:23 AM GMT
Its come from the same place where everyone starts their sentance with the word "so".........
Report learner • November 2, 2015 9:24 AM GMT
they talk so quickly I can barely understand them
Report boxingthefox • November 2, 2015 7:22 PM GMT
When I left London 5 years ago a lot of young white guys were speaking Jafakin (London Jamaican) really p1ssed me off.
Report Tommy Toes • November 2, 2015 7:27 PM GMT
It's rather strange in Stoke, Boxing, when some right rough piece from some neck-end place around here says something like:

"'ey up duck, dust know they kin ger a dubble fer 'alf price ternight?"

"Thanks for letting me know."

"Thenk yeaww."
Report boxingthefox • November 2, 2015 7:30 PM GMT
Kinell, Tommy it's a different language entirely. ShockedLaugh
Report Tommy Toes • November 2, 2015 7:31 PM GMT
It most certainly is, Boxing!
Report mad mad moon • November 2, 2015 7:32 PM GMT
Perhaps they got it from Groucho Marx who used the phrase a lot in his films?
Although somehow i doubt it.
Report boxingthefox • November 2, 2015 7:34 PM GMT
They certainly didn't get it from Harpo. Laugh
Report mad mad moon • November 2, 2015 7:38 PM GMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKWUKwWxAqs
Report boxingthefox • November 2, 2015 8:04 PM GMT
Very good mmm.
Report crags • November 2, 2015 11:44 PM GMT
Is it just me that gets a mental picture of Arthur Askey when seeing this thread header?
Report Capt__F • November 2, 2015 11:46 PM GMT
Oil goive it foive
Report crags • November 2, 2015 11:48 PM GMT
Mind you, I can't nail down how this Thenk Yeaww is meant to sound.
Report crags • November 2, 2015 11:49 PM GMT
Tommy has always been a strange one, mind.
Report crags • November 3, 2015 1:51 PM GMT
Come to think of it, Arthur Askey would be more 'I thank yaw'
Report cooperman • November 3, 2015 1:57 PM GMT
Definitely American, as is the feeling of being 'Blessed'.
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