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Author:  charon10 [ Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:59 am ]
Post subject:  Fred Dibnah
I discovered yesterday that one can watch a lot of Fred Dibnah clips on YouTube, including the whole of (I believe)the first ever nationwide broadcast of him in Fred Dibnah, Steeplejack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuSW9kOB ... re=related . I haven't lived in Lancashire for many years, and it got me wondering whether the way Fred talks (especially before he became the David Attenborough of the Industrial Era!) is a good example of an East Lancs accent, and if so whether it's pretty much like the way folk talk in Burnley these days.

Any comments from the locals?

Charon
Author:  Burnleymasher [ Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
Yes I think so, I know that me and me family talk like that, that includes me friends too. I dont think you notice the accent the same when you live with it and surrounded by it, but most of the people I come across talk like that. Perhaps saying that me Grandson's lanky is not quite as strong, but he has outside influences as his Mum and other set of Grandparents and cousins are all Southerners, plus his peers at school come from all walks of life, so it is bound to be diluted I think. Also when I am on here I try to use correct grammer, but my lanky comes through on occasions. I am proud to say. :wink: Ee' bi gum (well I never) :lol:


Stephanie.
Author:  Gloria [ Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
I think I am very broad. I was brought up around Burnley before moving over to the Blackpool area, totally different accent, where I learnt to speak properly, as my grandma used to say. We then moved back in my late teens and I became broad again. I think Fred was very broad but the Bolton accent is a bit different, but no less broad.
Author:  Mel [ Fri Oct 09, 2009 3:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
Your accent is very broad Gloria
Author:  Gloria [ Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
I yoost ter tork posh :wink:
Author:  charon10 [ Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
Thanks for the comments. I'm not surprised Bolton is a bit different from Burnley - I grew up in Wolverhampton, and it was said there that an expert could identify within a mile or two where someone came from in the Black Country. Each town and village specialised in one type of manufacture (pins, nails, chains, tinware and so on) and I suppose they were very clannish. Was it the same in the cotton/woollen trades?

Charon
Author:  Burnleymasher [ Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
The Sykers (Briercliffe) have always had a reputation of being clickie, me Dad told me when he was a young lad they always kept to themselves, that's probably why all the rellies of Sykers are related one way or another.


Stephanie.
Author:  rexwatson [ Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
When I and friends went to the Grammar school in Burnley, having been at Heasandford Juniors, we met people from the other end of town, towards Padiham and Accrington. They had what to us was a strange accent, though I couldn't now (having lived away for umpteen years) put my finger on why. In other words, just a few miles produced a recognisably different accent. My impression was that the Burnley Lane way of talking was pretty indistinguishable from Nelson, even Colne, but not say Padiham. Certainly Blackburn is clearly different to this day, they roll their r's more I think. Go over towards Rochdale and buses get called buzzes.

Rex
Author:  Jill on the A272 [ Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
Dad reckons he could tell a Nelson accent from a Burnley one when he was a lad, but that was pre 1940. Where was Fred Dibnah from?
Author:  Patricia [ Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
Bolton
Author:  Burnleymasher [ Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
My husband and his side of the family are from Ramsbottom born and bred and their pronunciation is different to mine e.g.
bear/bare is bur, hair is hur, look is luke, book is buke, fair is fur, there/their is thur, bus is buzzes. I sometimes find myself picking up the bad habit of their pronunciation but I always correct myself because I want to keep my own Burnley accent.


Stephanie
Author:  Mel [ Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
So how do you say book/look/cook Stephanie?
Author:  Gloria [ Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:01 pm ]
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I can say either book/buck cook/cuck look/luck probably depending who I am talking to and their accent.
Author:  Burnleymasher [ Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
I say the same as Gloria, book is buck, look is luck, cook is cuck. :lol:


Stephanie.
Author:  Mel [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:10 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Fred Dibnah
So how do you say moon? :lol:
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