General Chat

I live in the Southend area, parents moved out of London over 50 years ago and have lived here 40 years.

I found that people sounded more cockney to me in Brighton than they do in Essex

HID is a scouser but has not lived there for 25 years so difficult to tell where he is from...all his work mates know is he is not from around here :-D

It's quite interesting though, dialect and accent and how it is either strengthened in it's original locale or moves further out as other accents move in.

I was listening to someone the other night on tv , real scouse accent that you could cut with a knife lol, but it was someone who had long since left Liverpool, and some just pick up the accent of wherever they live really quickly, unconsciously and lose their original accent entirely.

Oh ........ So it was supposed to be a "joke" .. ...


Think I will stick to Mr_Magoo ....

Now. .... he does do jokes

The original post was a comment on an article in the D.T. that Cockney was not much found in the East End any more but had moved out into south Essex.

Rambling Rose obviously understands the joke.
It has nothing at all to do with people called Terry.

Yes, and hopefully not to Rollo

I know many people from that area.
Not one is named Terry or Derek.
Maybe they changed their names by deed poll.

I know a Tel and a Del...they were both born Cheshire.......... my gt grandad came from Southend though......

his name was Samuel.

:-D

Hear, hear, Jax

and, Rollo, so what ?

Sorry don't understand that and find it extremely offensive to the people who live in Southend

This is nothing new. Even twenty years ago if your stood in Southend town centre and shouted out "Oi Tel" half the male population would look up. If you shouted "Oi Del" the other half would do the same. And then they would kick the living daylights out of you.

- Henry , Colchester, 26/7/2013 14:11

(Daily Telegraph)