Local dialect of sheffield

[Yorkslass72]

On 28/12/2007 at 01:04, Eater Sundae said:

...and another point,

 

to my ear, and the way I speak, it's not " t'coil-oil ", it's just " 'coil-oil ". ie I don't shorten " the " to " t' ", it disappears completely

 

How do others hear and say "the"?

 

Edit. Example - " I've been daarn in 'cellar. "

The (tut) sound is either a replacement for the 'the' connective or an abbreviation of 'to', so.. 'I'm gooin 'tut shop,' or, 'gunnat shop'. 

[Gormenghast]

Quote - Eater Sundae

and another point,

 

to my ear, and the way I speak, it's not " t'coil-oil ", it's just " 'coil-oil ". ie I don't shorten " the " to " t' ", it disappears completely

 

How do others hear and say "the"?

 

Edit. Example - " I've been daarn in 'cellar. "

 

Technically its known as a glottal stop "a consonant formed by the audible release of the airstream after complete closure of the glottis. It is widespread in some non-standard English accents and in some other languages."

 

You hear it in some pronunciations of water, bitter, better, city where it's  written as wa'er, bi'er, be'er and ci'y.

THERE IS NO LETTER T,  AND IT REALLY ANNOYS ME when people trying to mimic or make fun of the Yorkshire accent add a t.

(Or perhaps I'm just getting old and cantankerous) 

 

[Alextopman]

I used to live on the border between Sheffield Yorkshire and Dronfield Derbyshire and the people who lived a few hundred yards away in Dronfield had a completely different accent.

I also found the same between Woodhouse and Beighton.