O/T Do you say "munt" instead of "musn't"?

[rolymiller]

Moreover, do you change your dialect depending who's company you're in? I certainly do.

Would love an open conversation with roly.

Am gonna tell thi summat nar Brin, a c unt see thi avvin a chat wi mi tha noorse owd lad cos tha wunt understand worra was sayin.

[CAMiller]

Although I now have a mongrel accent (SY, Northants/MK, US) there are some pronunciations/words that I never used even when I lived there. I think my Mum might have been an early prototype for Hyacinth Bucket. Rawmarsh was never Rowmish, Rotherham was never Rovram and I drank water not watter. I must admit though I think shunt, dunt and c.unt were words I commonly used but never munt.

[rolymiller]

Tha has to sup watter in Rawmish if not tha ant lived camiller

I always remember talking to a young production apprentice in the steel works who was showing us his written work in an essay about steel making. He wrote summat about putting coil in the furnace spelt like that c o i l. Everyone advised him he had spelt coal wrong and to change it. But he insisted that was the correct spelling After a while it became obvious that he had never heard the word coal as in c oa l before and was just spelling phonetically as he said it.

[millertop]

Depending on who (whom?) you're speaking to on the telephone?

Yes

[CAMiller]

Tha has to sup watter in Rawmish if not tha ant lived camiller

If I had they would have been doing a brain study on me after death to determine the long term impacts of repeated thwacks across the head

[rolymiller]

Our lass pulls me up for saying watter. MInd you shes originally from Lincoln. What sort of chuffin accent is that they have?

Geordie is a great accent but I aint gorra clue what they are saying haif the time... I heard the other day that the ess ex accent was voted the se xiest. It always sounds a bit moronic to me.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Moreover, do you change your dialect depending who's company you're in? I certainly do.

Would love an open conversation with roly.

When I worked for the Ministry of Defence and moved to Woolwich HQ I found that I was taken more seriously if I reined in the Yorkshire accent.

Sad but true

[great_fire]

Seems like "munt" is not very Rotherhamish after all.

Come to think of it, the person I know who says it most is from Barnsley way.

[rolymiller]

Yep I hate having to reel my accent in in certain situations.Its an affront to my liberty! Why can't I speak broad Yorkshire at Lord Fortescue's dinner party in deepest Surrey.?

Munt does sound a bit more Kessish I must say Gfire.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Seems like "munt" is not very Rotherhamish after all.

Come to think of it, the person I know who says it most is from Barnsley way.

It is Rotherhamish with a minor letter change