Words that get on your nerves

@BB3 Adam Frost doesn't have an Essex but a London accent. The Essex accent sounds similar to that of south west England.

@KT53 I'm English living here in Scotland and love the Glaswegian accent which I find easy to decipher. I have more of a problem with the softer Scots accents.

 

Tad. It is a term used by, in my opinion, bumptious posers.

 

"MY INSPIRATION. When I was 15, my family moved from Essex to Devon – it was hard to leave everything I'd known. My relationship with my father wasn't great, I disengaged with education and by 16 I'd moved out, looking for a job. My only choices were joining the army, becoming a chef or doing gardening work."

I found this on Google. BTW, there is no single London accent

 

That's a tad harsh @CanadianLori

 

I agree @BB3, there is no single London accent but since WW2 when people started to move out of London, my parents included, the genuine Essex accent has been pushed further and further towards the east coast of East Anglia. I was reared in Essex and my family originates from the Shoeburyness area, dating back to the 15th century and possibly beyond. With family friends in Harwich the accent/dialect there, also in Suffolk and Norfolk, is still heard and as I said previously sounds very much that of the south west of England.

 

Perhaps the word has a different aspect or meaning for Lori in Canada. I use it from time to time to suggest something small.

 

@Sheal well he did move to Devon so perhaps a mixture of the two.

 

Far more folk spend time in several parts of the county than used to be the case so accents change/amalgamate/blur.
I used to be able to tell to within a few villages which part of Suffolk a person was from, but that’s very rare nowadays.
My OH was born and grew up in S Lincs/Cambs but his parents were from Cheshire and OH has their northern pronunciation eg caseload for castle and the short ‘a’ in bath, rather than the more southern pronunciation shared by most of his friends from schooldays.
Nowadays it’s sometimes hard to guess which country a person is from purely by their accent … some people spend their formative years in several countries… or even several continents.

 

It's pretty much an everyday word here, meaning a little bit. "Do you want milk in your tea?" "Just a tad", or "Does this plant look OK if I plant it here?" "Just a tad to the left".

 

There is a word my teenage son uses. I presume it's a word because I've heard lots of other teenagers say it too, and they all seem to understand eachother.

I'm not sure how to spell it. It sounds like it is three syllables as far as I can tell, and has no consonants in it. It seems to be a common answer to a question. If I was to at least guess at its spelling it would be something like....

Aooo, where the last o is pronounced o, and the previous two are oo as in cool.

I think it might mean something like, 'i don't know' or perhaps 'I have no strong opinion on that'.

 

When your boss hands you a pile of documents and tells you they are all extant so you throw it in the bin.

 

It is still possible to tell the difference between North,South and East London - just. The vowel sounds are different .But I couldn't identify a West London accent.

 

“Does anyone no the name of this plant?”
I have seen know written as no many times. Is it an abbreviation, practised by such busy people they can’t spare the extra second to write the word properly? Or is it stupidity?

 

Text speak perhaps?

 

Do you get my point ??¿
Do you get my opoint


several times in a conversation it grates on me,