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Great list! IIRC, "mare" (for a bad time) is just a contraction of "nightmare".
by shrikant 6y ago
Great list! IIRC, "mare" (for a bad time) is just a contraction of "nightmare".
- tonyhb 6y agoWe used to say "having a weston" for that - from weston super mare.
- memsom 6y agoYeah that works. I think I've heard it too.
- memsom 6y agoYeah, it is. "Eezup geez! oi'm avin a roiht mare wiv me owlady. She wuz wew narked wiv me an trieda knock me sparkh ayt laas noiht" "Don't be harsh with me old boy. I'm having a lot of trouble with my other half. She is very upset with me and tried to violently render me unconscious last night." The oih usually rhymes with boy, but really has a hit of a H, depending on how common/drunk the individual speaking is. The a appended to words is like a "to", but it becomes a running vowel sound, like "gonna", but people do use it stand alone. I've heard "see ya ah morrah" (see you tomorrow) where the 'ah' is a schwa and probably could be prefixed to "morrah", I guess. Sometimes a K sound is quite aspirated, but only for effect, never consistently. It's weird. A lot less people use this accent these days. And whenever people apparently come from this area on TV they always put on a posh version and sound more like Farmers. Funny really.