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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 30 2007, 11:07 PM (397 Views) | |
| Sandra | Jan 30 2007, 11:07 PM Post #1 |
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What did your ancestors sound like? Many people on the board have ancestral links to Britain and the UK if you want to hear what your ancestors may have sounded like Click on an area on the map in the link below and listen to people from various areas around Britain having a chat. http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/ Even if you are not a descendant you might find quite interesting listening in to the various snippets of conversation It's a bit like eavesdropping. |
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| theonlyfab4fan | Jan 30 2007, 11:08 PM Post #2 |
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I AM THE BIGGEST JOHN FAN!
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This could very interesting and I will have a listen as soon as my husband shuts off the vacuum cleaner.
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You say you want to save humanity but it`s people that you just can`t stand John came to me in a dream and this is what he said. "I had a vision of a man on a flaming pie, and he told me that Betsy with a B not Lisa with a L is the biggest fan of mine". John trumps 'the boss' ! I WAS ROBBED BY THAT DEVIL WOMAN | |
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| Sandra | Jan 30 2007, 11:13 PM Post #3 |
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Don't discourage the man from vacuuming whatever you do Betsy.
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| Deleted User | Jan 31 2007, 12:16 AM Post #4 |
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does it give translations for cockney |
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| matts | Jan 31 2007, 12:42 AM Post #5 |
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Ha, wow cool - I actually know the people talking in the interview for 'Cam, Gloucestershire'. The funeral parlour that they work as is literally 2 minutes from where I live
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![]() 14/4/03 - Birmingham NIA 26/6/04 - Glastonbury Festival 25/10/07 - The Roundhouse, Camden 01/06/08 - Anfield Stadium, Liverpool 22/12/09 - The O2 Arena, London | |
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| MaccasGirl | Jan 31 2007, 12:46 AM Post #6 |
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This is very interesting to listen to, Sandra. I know my decendants are from the UK but wouldn't have a clue which part. It's amazing how many different accents there are. |
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And in the end...The love you take..Is equal to the love you make. | |
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| Deleted User | Jan 31 2007, 01:09 AM Post #7 |
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gawd they must have dug up the poshest in St Helens |
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| Deleted User | Jan 31 2007, 02:01 AM Post #8 |
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How the hell can you understand Manx folks???
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| Deleted User | Jan 31 2007, 02:27 AM Post #9 |
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very easily, mind you it is in the blood. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 31 2007, 02:31 AM Post #10 |
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Really? I couldn't decipher a thing. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 31 2007, 02:36 AM Post #11 |
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well one is very old almost a hundred and at that age every one is hard to understand ( ie the port st mary) my great uncle willie was in his ninties when i met him in 70 or 71 and he was hard to understand, but we as children didn't have any problem and i dont have any problem with friends kids, who moved to douglas in the eighties. now dotty is a problem but that maybe just because she is dotty. |
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| Merry | Jan 31 2007, 02:39 AM Post #12 |
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This is very interesting, Sandra, thank you! I know my father's mother came from Dundee, but I couldn't find it on the map, so I settled for Glasgow, which I assume isn't that far away. The lilt isn't that hard to understand, if fact I find it quite pleasant to the ear. I wish I knew more about that side of the family. Merry
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| Deleted User | Jan 31 2007, 02:41 AM Post #13 |
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no it is british so no Dublin but click on Northen Ireland and go down to near the line and towards the coastline then you are only about 60 odd miles away |
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| Merry | Jan 31 2007, 02:43 AM Post #14 |
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OH, okay Peter, thank you! I feel terribly ignorant about your country and where things are on the map. ![]() I'll give it a listen! Merry
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| Deleted User | Jan 31 2007, 02:54 AM Post #15 |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/gro...llaghbawn.shtml that's Newry about ten miles from the border if i remember right. |
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| Merry | Jan 31 2007, 02:56 AM Post #16 |
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Thank you again...I still couldn't locate it, but I did listen to those in Aberdeen! :lol: NOW I can enjoy it properly! Merry
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| Deleted User | Jan 31 2007, 04:02 PM Post #17 |
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my grandmother was married to a man from Aberdeen, didn't last long he regained his sanity. |
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| BeatleBarb | Jan 31 2007, 04:13 PM Post #18 |
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| Deleted User | Jan 31 2007, 04:15 PM Post #19 |
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Hey, he was a nice man he didn't deserve that, he could of had his pick of the old dears at the dances. Trying to remember his name now. |
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| kink | Jan 31 2007, 04:32 PM Post #20 |
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on again, off again
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Ah, best website ever; I've spent hours there amusing myself with the scottish accents. |
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Strawberry Fields: We put the FUN in dysfunctional. -BeatleBarb, 2007 | |
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| Sandra | Jan 31 2007, 05:55 PM Post #21 |
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Glasgow is not far at all from Dundee Merry but the accent is quite different. It was quite a posh Glasgow accent that I listented to. Here is a link for Dundee Merry http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/gro...nd-dundee.shtml |
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| Sandra | Jan 31 2007, 05:57 PM Post #22 |
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Glad it kept you amused Olia - Now you can suss out which accent you want your man in a kilt to have.
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| Sandra | Jan 31 2007, 06:01 PM Post #23 |
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Me neither.
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| Deleted User | Jan 31 2007, 06:05 PM Post #24 |
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funny i thought that of the Belfast one. strange there isn't any of hampshire and wiltshire. |
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| Sandra | Jan 31 2007, 06:10 PM Post #25 |
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Isn't there? I didn't realise that. I was trying to find a Wolverhampton I worked with a girl from there years ago and I could rarely understand a word she said and I think I've got quite a good ear. |
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| kink | Jan 31 2007, 06:33 PM Post #26 |
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on again, off again
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I want one for myself, too, actually! |
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Strawberry Fields: We put the FUN in dysfunctional. -BeatleBarb, 2007 | |
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| Merry | Jan 31 2007, 06:37 PM Post #27 |
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Thank you, (((Sandra)))! As soon as I get back to my place later on, and get my net access back, I will listen, I'm looking forward to it! I love all the accents I've heard so far. Merry
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