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It's just 'Stokie' to me, Coach!
Don't think there's any Liverpool in it - but definite smatterings of Manc plus Wolves/South Staffordshire. Funnily enough, whenever I see anything about Doncaster on the telly, when they're interviewing local folk, I think their accent is the nearest to Stoke I've come across. The accent has mellowed a lot though in the last few years. When the coal mines and the potteries were in full swing in the 70s it was almost impossible to understand a word anyone said! |
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Anock and Eli
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Coach, if you're interested there's a cracking documentary about the Potteries language and how it evolved - May Un Mar Language - that was made by a former forumite: Foolsgold.
It's very, very good. Here's a link to the first part of the 4, if you have an inkling to discover a little treasure! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06nbSiv1ZN0 |
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Brilliant Tommy - i will watch that - love those clips.
Been listening to a few Stokies and maybe the younger ones have some Liverpoolish /Crewe/Chester influence - just something i picked up on , def some Manchester too. Stafford accent i couldn't make out -is that the posh one ? possibly a bit of Wolves - Wolves to me seems a bit different despite still being Staffs . Great accents all the same - deffo my favourites Stoke and then Black country (along with northern Ireland) - as long as they are decipherable  |
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watching the film now Tommy .
The old boys = noticable midlands ,a bit of black country . Bloke in black shirt (poet) - deffo shades of that Northwest Wirrally dialect . Must be a generational cross over. |
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def Manchester in the beer drinkers and even some Derby i heard .
'duck' i believe is all over the midlands is it not ? i used to hear Peterborough folk say it a lot |
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...and slight Yorkshire Tommy as you mentioned .
Not sure how that came about |
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the miners from the north east
 no bugger can understand them |
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Ronald (7.11)sounds like he is from Suffolk
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summary of Stoke accent .
About 10 different accents  |
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Hehehe!
I've just watched it again for the first time since it was made 8 years ago. Really enjoyed it yet again. Funnily enough, Pete Conway - who is now back to his original name of Pete Williams, Robbie Williams dad - holding up that Stokie pronunciation of the 'Jo Jo Tell' (The George Hotel) is where a recently made friend of mine works! Also, Pete dropped a bundle of cash in the place I work at a couple of weeks ago, when he was getting his keys out. He didn't realise until he got home half an hour later and 'phoned up to ask if it had been handed in. It had. He came to collect it the next day and I was chatting to him about it. He said he was amazed at how someone had handed so much cash in and I told him people regularly hand in all sorts of cash and expensive stuff that's been dropped or forgotten about. "That's Stokies for you" I said. "Yes indeed!" he agreed. |
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Good stuff Tommy . So by my reckoning - in another 100 years we will all be speaking some form of Scouse .
Although Scouse is itself heavily infuenced by the Welsh (English) accent  |
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Who knows, Coach?
I thought it telling that more than once it was mentioned in the film that the Stoke language is the nearest thing to Anglo Saxon you could get. Perhaps now we're out of that bleedin' Europe nonsense we can all start talking 'proper Stokie Anglo Saxon' in the future to regain our roots! |
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Yes Tommy - there was a film about the Black country accent with a similar Anglo saxon tag - so must be somewhere around that area - use of very early words .
I listened to some old boy out Bury st Edmunds way back in the 1980s -he was like from the 1800s , he spoke some style of English i had never heard before (and haven't heard since ) and had lived in the same village all his days . i needed a translator |
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hahaha!
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we can all start talking 'proper Stokie Anglo Saxon' in the future to regain our roots!
_____________ yeah ,it's all this Mutli cultural 'now don't you knnnnow bruv ? Safe !! i'm off to chill in the yard ' type of stuff Yep - we may get back to straight forward English sooner than we realise |
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had planned on an early night Tommy - but a ) too hot to sleep -it feeels like all the radiators are all on
B) noisy bleedy seagulls nest on the roof next door . C) still some betting going on so sitting in the garden with a beer |
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Cracking stuff Coach!
Enjoy it whilst it lasts - it'll probably be teeming down again later. Well, in Stoke it will - and that's a 1:01! |
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Liverpool now down to 25 c - quite a dip
 Brighton now in the lead on 26 c Brighton actually holds the all time record night max record - no way it will beat itself tonight though |
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Tommy - this part of England generally gets warm summer days but pretty cool nights (the coldest nights in England for most of the year ) certainly too cool to contemplate sitting in the garden after 7 pm .
So a nice change tonight - and the seagulls have stopped sqwarking for now |
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Stoke on Trent 20.3 # 11.7
Manchester 20.6 # 12.6 Ipswich 23.2 # 12.3 colder nights than Manchester ,but warmer ,drier and sunnier days |
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Coach, this part of England just doesn't get any good weather at any time!
Okay, I might be exaggerating, but just as an example: I went to Hanley on Friday afternoon. I live approximately 1 mile away from it. It didn't rain all morning (which was a surprise) but was cool and grey-cloudy throughout. After doing what I had to do in the town for approx 2 hours, I couldn't take any more and headed for the Coachmakers Arms - a pub in Hanley. They have two wooden-slatted bench seats attached to the front wall of the pub which were hanging down at 5:30pm (when I got there) and as I ordered my drink, I asked if it was okay to raise the bench seats. The publican said "Well, they still may be soaked from earlier but I'll have a look" I asked what rain there'd been and he said it had been throwing it down all afternoon until approx half an hour before. I'd been 'the other side' of the town - but no more than a few hundred yards away from the pub - and hadn't seen a drop of rain for 2 hours. That's Stoke for you! |
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Coachmakers Arms
_____________ sounds a good name for a pub all weather is good weather Tommy - i love to see the rain ,and the heavier the better - hopefully some thundertorms  |
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but that dreary old grey ,nonsense non weather - you can keep that in Stoke
get sick of that all winter |
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A very good name for a pub, Coach, and the users of it call it 'The Coach'!
We don't want any more grey, nonsense, non-weather - punctuated with shedloads of rain! It's about time Stoke had a holiday, stopped getting everyone else's rotten weather, and had some sun - if only for a bleedin' week! Please! |
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There's a bit of sun around here today!
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Evening Joel
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update 2am
Liverpool 25c Brighton 25c must be the warmest ever for the north west at this time of the day /night . |
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You've got a bit of a weird temperature fixation going on, haven't you, Coach?
Better than having voices in your head telling you to murder people, I suppose. |
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You lucky man Joel!
We've had about 12 hours of rays in the whole of 2016 until today - and I'm not exaggerating! |
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Carlisle 25c |
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You've got a bit of a weird temperature fixation going on, haven't you, Coach?
____________ Yes Patra - i am not normal by a long way - but i'm quite a happy bunny |
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hahaha!
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Tommy has his Stoke weather /lack of sun thing going on so we make a perfect couple .
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time for sleep ,but excited to see who wins this overnight heat battle ,and then the unlikely chance of a new 2016 high tomorrow in south east /east anglia . ???
my money is on Cambridge to weigh in at 33c overnight i'm going for London at 22 - always nicks it at the last knockings |
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I'll bet a pound to a pinch of snuff it'll be hammering down in Stoke tomorrow - and the hedges still won't get cut.
I'm disappearing under the foliage because of the bleedin' Stoke weather! |
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Stoke forecast - Wed 20 Jul
Wed 20 Jul 26 °C 15 °C part sunny Not record breaking Tommy but still looks a decent day - get that hedge trimmer out ready and a deckchair . |
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I've got my WD40 out to lubricate the shears as we speak, Coach!
PLEASE let it be dry tomorrow! |