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Most Germans do not pronounce 'ich' as 'eek'. It's more akin to 'eech' (pronouncing the 'ch' as in loch, chwarae etc). And it's the same in Hochdeutsch (Standard German).
Ich bin hier die ganze Woche
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I feel sorry for my dad who is now in care in Dudley. Having come from Cardiff, before lockdown, I found it necessary to translate Black Country into something intelligible.
"Owamyubab?" (Ow-am-yu-bab) = she's asking "how you are". Just don't confuse it with a Brummy accent.
True, I went back to a normal Rhiwbina Cardiff accent, I was working Coldbrook and Cadaxton areas, so it was quite a harsh Barry accent a bit like Ely Cardiff!
I think it's mostly sub consciously, but some people want to fit and consciously learn to mimic the accent of the new area?
Dudley the town or Dudley Borough? The answer is yes....probably. The southern part of Dudley Borough (Halesowen, Norton for example) may not like the idea. Northern part, bordering Wolverhampton, almost certainly would identify as Yam Yams.
One of the stewards at Luton turned out to be from Dudley, a Wolves fan and now living in Brum. Easy to place him as Dudley from his accent. When I explained that my dad was (then) in hospital in Dudley his response was "yo'm a yam yam ay yu", assuming I was from that neck of the woods. It took some convincing that my neck of the woods was originally Cardiff, although he did appreciate my impersonation of the way a typical (older) Black Country wench spakes.
Linguistic experts reckon that accents change roughly every 25 miles in the UK. Pretty interesting to work out how many unique accents that would add up to.
Strange how some people pick up accents easily and others don't. My dad moved to Cardiff in 1933 and has never had a Cardiff accent of any description. Similarly, my mum born in Loudon Square (Tiger Bay, arguably), moved to Splott, then Adamsdown and, with a brief spell in Nottingham, to Rhiwbina...never seems to have picked up (lost deliberately?) a harsh Cardiff accent you might expect. Her telephone voice was Hyacinth Bucket. Perhaps a deliberate attempt to distance herself from the accent of her youth as a way of social climbing. Somewhere, I have a tape cassette recording of me circa 1974 and it's pure Kairdiff. Must have been picked up from school and now largely gone.
I knew a guy from Llansteffan (Carmarthen) who moved to Nottingham in his late twenties, spent a couple of years there and came back with a broad (what I would consider) Yorkshire-type accent. I suppose it was a Nottingham accent.
I’d ordinarily consider that type of change a little bit put on but this guy wasn’t really “bright” enough to nail the accent the way he did intentionally. So he must basically have some innate ability to pick up accents. His mother was from Rotherham and never lost her accent despite having lived in West Wales for decades. Maybe this guy was just tuned into that type of english accent.
I’ve noticed that my own accent drifts between Caerphilly,Carmarthen,Welshie English and Cardiffy (for certain words). I feel like the use of “mun” is a bit valleys , which tend to use in sentences like “fockin al mun”.
As an english teacher I get stick for saying “year” and “hear” like “ear”. The english pronounce these words like “eeh-uh” .... which is apparently the right way. I also pronounce “tour” like “two-uh” and it should sound like “tore”.
I wasn't being pedantic, old fruit. I read your comment as the 'ch' being pronounced predominantly as a 'k' whereas it is pronounced that way in some places but it's not the predominant pronunciation. I just responded to what you wrote (rather than what is in your mind) and it's no big deal either way
So for the last 30yrs I've lived in Senghenydd and when I moved up a lot of locals said they had older relatives that had never been out of the valley.Apparently there was no need as you could get everything you needed in the village so I guess that would be the reason behind their particular accent until I realised that when the pit was sunk(1890's I think) a huge percentage came from west country stock so made what was a new village.Work that one out.