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Definition of a dee-dar?


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Originally posted by Robbie_Lovin

hull people dont pronounce T's properly either........ as in words like cant, its quite funny actually....

 

as for talking slowly...... i cant see why u wud think that bout sheffielders...... from what i know were not that slow, if u want slow go to dudley LOL

 

What like going t'pub or t'tarn :-)

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If you want people with silly accents, go to Lancashire, they have something rather in common with Canadians and Scots, in that they can't pronounce the word "about" correctly, instead they say "aboot" :lol:

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I worked in barnsley for a while received the usual dee daa insults daily - they never liked being called dingles though, or when I told them any town with an S postcode would be soon be in Greater Sheffield - good wind up ;-)

 

Barnsley - it wo fitty or fotty yard up rooed near pogmooer on me way inter't tarn.

 

I love hull Accents - that hermerner quote is bang on - hilarious as well :-)

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  • 7 years later...

I was wondering what the actual definition of a dee-dar is?

 

I know that a Cockney has to be born within the sound of Bow bells in London. So Cockney's are from places like West Ham, Plaistow, Stratford, Mile End, Stepney and Bow. (Although football fans think anyone from London is a Cockney and even call folks from Middlesboro "Geordies" - bless 'em - so many of them wagged school during geography it seems).

 

But Sheffielders are proudly known as dee-dars - because of their fondness for excessive use of the letter "d" in sentences like...

 

"narden dee wot da doin darn deer?" translates to, "nowthen you, what are you doing down there?"

 

I wonder where this strange accent comes from originally and do you have to be from certain parts of the city to be afflicted with it?

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