Hull Accent

Nobody in York guessed I was from Hull, either.
I am just saying this because granjo39 said that no matter where you go the Hull accent is always recognisable.

Yorkjen?
That's where we lived for ten years before moving to Durham.
Didn't call myself that, though.

When I talk to people I don't know here in Sheffield they always say "you're not from around here are you?" I was born and raised here but after travelling around with soldier husband, living and working in other places, I have lost most of my accent (no bad thing some would say!). I have a Geordie friend who also travelled around with her service husband and has never lost her accent. It was always a joy to listen to and, whenever we speak on the phone, it still is! My hairdresser is from The Wirral and we always describe her accent as 'posh scouse'.

I didn't think that hulljen had quite the same ring to it [ wink]

Nothing to do with Kingston-upon-Hull she hastens to add!

Rose

Sorry, I do not introduce myself as durhamjen when I am talking to people!
Nobody on here knows what I sound like.
I lived in Hull for 18 years, then moved away. We moved back when I was 40.
People I had not known before did not think I came from Hull.

Perhaps it's your name that gives them a clue

hulljen

Nobody thinks I'm from Hull, having been married to a Geordie for 45 years.
They quite often guess Durham, or they did before I moved to Durham.

Trisher- Well done to your Mum-it is Kingston upon Hull and proud to be.

Gardeningsuey-Your Dads neighbour doesn't sound much like a 'Hullite' with that accent.

No matter where you go the Hull accent is always recognisable

Our sil is also from NI and we all take the mick about his watching a filem.

I really do love accents, be they French or English- and I find it a shame that so many young people are all losing their local accents, both here and there.

OH grew up with Surrey style Grammmar school RP- and as we moved around the country from London, I was always much better at understanding local people, and picking up the accents- bot in Stoke-on-Trent and then Leicestershire. I loved to say 'a louke in a bouke' and 'I was stood standing there'- as a furiner, all these expressions I picked up so cheered up the locals ;)

Will always remember the first time I came across a strong Scouse accent, walking up DoveDale in Staffs- a girl was up by the cave and shouting

I'm stochhhhh on a rorchhhhh and I wanna get bachhhhh!

It sounded a bit like Swiss German, lol. Apparently 'she was stuck on a rock and wanted to get back'- explained the social workers who were with her and her friend.

When my Dad first moved up to Hull from North London, he bought himself a new car and the neighbour across the road called out "I see thee've tret thissen" - Dad said "pardon' a couple of times then had to just smile and nod politely!

Isn't it good that regional accents survive, I think so anyway!

Two of my GSs (7 and 9) take the mick out of their mum who comes from NI and talks about fillums. Brats!

I had a friend from NI who pronounced it 'Fillum'

'Shall we go to the pictures to watch a fillum?'

I'm from Hull, although, as my mother always told me, Hull is the name of the river! (The town is Kingston upon Hull but no-one calls it that). I don't have a Hull accent (it was drummed out of me when I was a child-speaking properly was important). I now live in Newcastle where they speak almost another language, and I can't do a Geordie accent. The word which most annoys me and it is said in the same way in both places is the word "film"
which so many people insist on saying as "Fillum" Drives me mad!!!

Arthur Gnome - I though he might be selling semi-detached houses.

'dannies' here in S. Yorks. I haven't heard that one in a long time!

I was told off if I said 'haitch' instead of 'aitch'.

Some words I was brought up with I thought were normal but, after I left Staffordshire, I realised they were not! They were not words used in other parts of the country but pronounced differently.

My DM used to say 'give me your donnies' if she either wanted to put my gloves on or hold my hand across the road.
I can't find the origin of 'donny' for hand - does anyone else know?

Roseq, lots of people in Hull do call it 'ull. My mother's family were from Hull as far back as five generations before her, but we would still have been told off for saying 'ull.
The strange thing is that if you ask them to say the alphabet, many will also say haitch for H.
Nowt so queer as folk.

Yes he did.

Didn't Philip Larkin used to run the university library in Hull?

I have never pronounced it 'ull

It was me pronouncing it like that in me Staffordshire accent, djen

My DH has a couple of T-shirts with Black Country 'speak' on them such as 'Yowm Ovin a Lof' (You are having a laugh) and 'Z is for stripey oss'
(as in Z is for zebra)

I just love accents full stop.

The snobbery of our use of accents is , thank goodness, is getting put in it's box somewhat these days.

I think it is possibly all to do with t.v. For example I don't think most people care if a presenter has a silver spoon voice any more. We have a more cohesive society and 'class' and whether you are ' posh' or not is the domain of those dinosaurs who want to keep people in their place, whether it be inverted snobbery or not, it works both ways.

Accents make us who we are and I'm very happy I have mine.

The landlord of our local pub here in Brum is from Hull. His attempts at a Black Country accent are hysterical

There is more development taking place at the Deep now. It's going to be brilliant when it's finished.

If anyone does come I'd recommend you take a ride on the land train. The chaps who run it do a very funny but historically accurate potted history of Hull as it takes you round.