Hull Accent

(Sunday 12:05) DJ No but I have been to the new(ish ) archives in Beverley.

This thread has reminded me of last summer.
I was back in my native Yorkshire for a few days (Huddersfield, to be precise), and couldn't help smiling when I saw a hand-written sign outside a workshop, next to a pile of old wooden pallets. It said "elp yer sens".

Ah, it was good to be back home and realise that I still understood the language even though I haven't lived there since I was 18

Do not know anyone who ever called it Kingston-upon-Hull. We do not want people confusing us with those upstarts from the other Kingston.

if not is

'Ull

or Kingston-upon-Hull is you want to sound posh.

Ahaha I loved the Stoke accent and the people i worked with found it hilarious to teach me, the little foreign girl, hos to speak proper potteries! But we digress- back to Hull ;)

we live in Newcastle-u-Lyme for 4 years though granjura you should be able to translate my post of
Fri 06-Feb-15 10:09:32

'I wunna gunna go on buzz down town terday, me duck'

Reckitts was a company with very advanced views about its employees - James Reckitt was a philanthropist who, among other things built a quite luxurious housing estate for his employees, Garden Village, still very much occupied (BIL lives there.)
They even had a keep fit scheme for their workers - I'm still in touch with a friend from Hull who was at one time a sports teacher there.

Trisher, that is funny and never heard it before. I went to work for Beecham's in Brentford, London, instead. Used to get teased mercilessly about Beecham's powders. Must say I loved my 3 years in SW London.

In all my years in the UK (39) I never did go further North East than Durham (which I love, especially the amazing Cathedral, in all its simple and huge Norman glory) - very much one of my dreams to go to Northumberland, Alnwick, Lindisfarne and the wild coast. When we visit the UK, we have so many things to do and have never made it yet. And I've never been to either Newcastle (we live in Newcastle-u-Lyme for 4 years though) or Liverpool on t'other side.

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Have you been to the History Centre, ruby? It's where the archives are kept, just off Freetown Way. Can't remember the street name, but then I never had to when I lived on Spring Bank or Spring Bank West.

I have happy memories of Ferens Art Gallery * DJ* we used to go quite often as children (also Wilberforce House , transport museum and the whaling museum when it used to have the huge whale's jawbones outside). I can remember vividly some of the art work at Ferens. There was a bronze thing like an enormous beetle and a scary painting of a saint (Sebastian?) pierced with lots of arrows.
We might be going up there next week (if DH can get a football ticket) maybe I'll get a chance to go to the gallery and see what it's like.
Lots of culture in Hull already when we start to think about it.

Oh granjura you missed out:
"Reckitt's girls, Reckitt's girls,
Eyes like diamonds, teeth like pearls."
Used to skip to this when I was a kid. I think it is probably because this was a better job for girls than the fishing industry.

Pheeew Anno, I was trying to understand him and couldn't, and thought 'my English is slipping, been away too long (6 years in March)- but then OH said he didn't get a word either! When I first went to work in the UK, I was supposed to go and work for Reckitt and Coleman in Hull- but then was sent to London- lucky escape for my English then ;) lol.

Yesterday, before the Scotland/France match, Jill Douglas was interviewing the new Scottish number 10 and even I could barely understand a word he said. Note to Scotland management: media training needed for new star!

I was talking to a Scottish lady the other day about the names families give to their children. She said she particularly liked her neighbour's choice of the name "Peril" I looked at her thinking only of Beryl the Peril and why anyone would choose that and she said "Well, how would you pronounce Pearl?

The best one I heard was when discussing what to cook for tea with a lady from Lancashire." I've got some cheese left" she said " and " I'm goin' fer't 'ave fer't use it"

When we came back to England from Africa at the end of 1970, we lived for a while in deepest Devon, sometimes enjoying a drink at a local pub. Could we understand a word the other drinkers spoke? I'd have stood a better chance with Swahili.

I lived and workd in Hull for 20+ years but still couldn't reproduce the accent. Though I still remember children saying "haitch" for aitch.
But I was born and grew up in Northumberland and can switch to Geordie at the drop of a hat - whye aye man!

After 24 years in Cornwall I got pretty good at understanding the accent, but I used to have an awful time when I had to organise events with one of the local farmers. He had a very thick accent, talked very fast and had a speech impediment. The combination was pretty lethal and I was lucky if I picked out one word in three! Things always got organised in the end, but I was never sure how.

When my son went to visit his ex in-laws in Norway, he could understand a lot. However, I cannot understand at all when my other son's partner speaks Danish. I know which place names have Danish roots, but that's about it.

When I first went to visit my in-laws in Northumberland, I used to just nod and shake my head, then ask what they had said after they went out of the room. I could not understand the accent at all. So yes, Hull and Geordie are completely different.

There's a Philip Larkin trail in Hull.
I think Larkin would have appreciated it being a city of culture. It wasn't just Hull he was rude about, he was just a curmudgeonly man.
They are after having the Turner prize there in 2017, in Ferens Art Gallery. It is being spruced up. The last time it was done was over 20 years ago, when my husband was the assistant chief architect there. I'll have to go and see it again before it happens.

Well, lol, both in the North East after all- so with Danish roots perhaps.

My accent in English is more than weird- and nobody has ever guessed it right (French speaking Swiss)- I've been 'accused' of being Welsh, and also South AFrican- but my mother-tongue is definitely French and not German. Go figure. Only 2 current GNeters have heard my accent, not sure what they would say.

Just wondering what Philip Larkin would have thought of Hull as a City of Culture! He was rude about it - but he stayed...

@granjura - It's a fair old distance from Hull to Newcastle-upon-Tyne - I doubt there would be much similarity between their accents.

As a furiner, I imagine I would not be able to pick out Hull from 'normal' Geordie. Geordie is the one accent I am totally unable to imitate. I can do a bit of Brum and Scouse- but not Geordie. How does Hull differ- any examples?