tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post1599256195661685976..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Invisible 'H' by Jan EdwardsKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-66203260958477557482017-07-21T15:01:18.506+01:002017-07-21T15:01:18.506+01:00Interesting that you mention Sussex - although Sco...Interesting that you mention Sussex - although Scottish, I was actually born in Sussex and spent my first 4 years there, and something about the Sussex accent has lingered on, so that people sometimes find it hard to place where I'm from and guess at Cornwall! <br />I think we probably use a short 'a' in bath up here in Edinburgh - one of my main pronunciation battles is with an Irish colleague over the word 'scone'.Cecilia Peartreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653871639579934396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-89948032323513069482017-07-19T22:21:57.791+01:002017-07-19T22:21:57.791+01:00Well despite being a Southerner I've always sa...Well despite being a Southerner I've always said Glastonbury, not Glahstonbury - nothing to do with pop festivals. I always say Glasgow, too, though it seems that Radio 4 has decided it should be Glahsgow. Ann Turnbullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06484265041343702129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-61273739207737860732017-07-19T16:41:03.448+01:002017-07-19T16:41:03.448+01:00What an interesting, wonderfully written post. I f...What an interesting, wonderfully written post. I fight a lone battle on the pronunciation of Glastonbury. Southerners have always given it the ah sound until the pop festival took hold and now the A in Glas is invariably flat. If spoken by someone with a northern accent that makes perfect sense; less so when the speaker otherwise uses the AH sound in last, plaster, bath etc. Just as irritating is broadcasters talking about the lahst cahstle on the pahth to Newcassell, as if the Geordies won't recognise the name of their home town otherwise. Patronising or what?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-77721481073798725302017-07-19T12:24:02.615+01:002017-07-19T12:24:02.615+01:00I grew up in South London and have always said ...<br />I grew up in South London and have always said 'bahth', despite having lived in the West Midlands for more than forty years. My daughter grew up in the West Midlands and says 'bath'. I'd always assumed it was just a north/south pronunciation thing.<br />Ann Turnbullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06484265041343702129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-64642378689599620482017-07-19T11:11:43.498+01:002017-07-19T11:11:43.498+01:00As a Devonian, this is a very familiar dilemma for...As a Devonian, this is a very familiar dilemma for me. However, as someone who's lived most of his life in Aberdeen, it stretches more widely. Naturally enough, I wanted at least some of the policemen in my Jack Carston series to have local accents. Unfortunately, that meant that spelling them phonetically produced gems such as 'Fa ye spikkin till?' and 'Foo's yersell?', which were immediately discarded by my excellent London-based editor. I understood and accepted her reservations but I was sorry to be deprived of a significant aspect of their characterisation.Bill Kirtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16345949773423764808noreply@blogger.com