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Aunt Sally
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Re: Not strictly FH but can someone help?
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 09 December 08 20:32 UTC (UK) »

Thank you for posting a poem that mentions me!!! Cheesy

It´s a really funny poem and anything that can make people smile

these days has got to be good!

Aunt Sally


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Durham - Brown, Sykes, Cunningham, Morby, Dunn
Oxfordshire - Morby/Moreby/Morbey, Gennings
Worcestershire - Tandy, Tibbetts, Poppett
Yorkshire - Sykes, Kaywood, Brown
Staffordshire - Tibbetts
Ireland - Cunningham

janmoon
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Re: Not strictly FH but can someone help?
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 10 December 08 00:31 UTC (UK) »

I just loved this poem!! Grin

I wonder it there's an anthology of stuff like this. I've tried googling but haven't really come up with anything.
Thanks so much for sharing.
Regards
Jan


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Vicwinann
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Re: Not strictly FH but can someone help?
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 10 December 08 17:00 UTC (UK) »

So glad you enjoyed the poem. My 7 year grandson said he hardly understood a word I was talking about when I recited it to him in a broad West Oxfordshire accent. His face was a picture in itself.

When I took a friend to visit my sister in Witney, he was tickled pink with her always adding "you" to the end of statements, something that I no longer do.
" Well, I dun't think so, you"

The Oxfordshire accent differs slightly from North, South, East and West. It is far softer in the South where one of my daughter's still lives, and sounds more Midlands in the North of the County. East Oxfordshire seems to be a mixture of all plus being a bit "posher".
Yours
Vicwinann


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bevbee
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Re: Not strictly FH but can someone help?
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 10 December 08 18:24 UTC (UK) »

There are lots of books available on accents to help actors - just search on Amazon and a whole list of them comes up - don't know whether they'll help - just a thought. Grin


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janmoon
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Re: Not strictly FH but can someone help?
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 13 December 08 03:51 UTC (UK) »

Thanks for that Bev. Will follow it up.
Regards
Jan


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aginger
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Re: Not strictly FH but can someone help?
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 13 December 08 16:32 UTC (UK) »

My family first came to South Marston in 1820,1 mile from the Berks/Oxon Border in the top right hand corner of Wiltshire,we still speak or know how to speak the Local Dialect,but we have been infiltrated by the posh universal one [you cant tell were they comes from] when I have been in OZ ,in Adelaide or Mackay the friendly people always ask "where are you from?" because of my BROAD DIALECT!!. but they seem to have NO regional dialect?? Here it is noticeable to me in about 10 miles distance ,such as over the River Thames [North] into Gloucestershire .Those actors on TV try to imitate us but as my Gt Uncle told me[born and brought up in Stanton Fitzwarren] "A WILTSHIREMAN CAN IMITATE ANYBODY"!
If any rootschatter wants to read our dialect,try to read some of my Gt Uncles Books,ie "A Wiltshire Village"," Villages of the White Horse", " Round About The Upper Thames" by ALFRED WILLIAMS 1877-1930,because some paragraphs are in the Local Dialect ,and still in print,and the family dunt make a penny.
Allen.


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Williams,Lloyd Williams[N Wales]
Hughes, Painter ,Giles,Heath,Bourton,Sansum,Legg,[Wilts]
Giles, Gilles, Gyles, [Glos/Oxon]

sarahsean
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Re: Not strictly FH but can someone help?
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 13 December 08 18:08 UTC (UK) »

Really interesting to listen to this my ancestors were from Faringdon now in Oxfordshire and Lincolnshire. As i grew up in Sussex i had no idea what they would have sounded like so it has good to hear these recordings.

As regards the Sussex accent i would say that in my opinion all the southern accents seem to run into one in that they are just a bit softer then a London accent. However as i now live in Ireland my accent is now very strange in that for the Irish i have a very English accent but when we are back in England i am always told i have an Irish accent. As for the kids they have a mix of a country irish accent, Dublin accent and English accent.

Happy Christmas to all am recovering from hosting my boys 8th birthday party today! What better way then having a browse on rootschat!

Regards
Sarah


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green-finger
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Re: Not strictly FH but can someone help?
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 24 January 09 18:05 UTC (UK) »

Hi Vicwinann

I loved your poem! My family (Wilkins) come latterly from Henley and originally from Berkshire. I noticed that you list 'Wilkins, Englefield Green' among your interests and wondered if we might have anyone in common!

Regards,

Maurice


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Wilkins, Phipps, Saunders, Chapman, Pickett in Wiltshire, particularly around the Lavingtons.

Wilkins in south Oxfordshire and east Berkshire.

sailorbaz
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Re: Not strictly FH but can someone help?
« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 03 March 09 05:41 UTC (UK) »

Hi Vicwinnan,
Sorry for reactivating the thread so late but I've only just discovered Rootschat. I love your poem. I was born in Banbury and spent as much time as possible on the farm at Horley with my gran and my mum's stepfather. I have heard all the words in your poem used in everyday conversation. To add a couple my gran always called weeds and any garden rubbish 'mullock'. Main roads were referred to as 'turnpikes' eg the Stratford turnpike and the Warwick turnpike. Any cutting and layering of hedges on the farm was 'adging'. The man who did it was always 'adger'.
Although I live in Australia I still speak with an Oxfordshire accent!
Regards
Barry


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Dunwoody(ie) originating in Belfast/Dunbartonshire; Wood (Norwich/London); Brook(e)s (Northants/Oxon); Taylor (Northants); Gardner (Northants); Sears (Northants); Mountford (Northants); Judd (Warwicks); Norcliffe (Yorks); Matthews (Lincs/Derbys/Yorks)

Vicwinann
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Re: Not strictly FH but can someone help?
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 03 March 09 07:32 UTC (UK) »

Thank you for that, Barry. My brother-in-law who has also lived in Australia for 30 odd years has also has never really lost his Oxfordshire accent but it sounds strange with Aussie words.

Vicwinann


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