Re: UK Conventions

["T.W. Smith" <techwordsmith -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Arrrr. And by pirates, me heaRRRRties. <g> Sorry, couldn't resist.

I was in Bath last May and nobody I met in Bath said BaRth. Or is Bath
too south and west to be Midlands or the South?

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:21:46 +0000, Anthony Kelly <alkelly71 -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
<snip>

> Yet this use of "ar" is mainly found in the South and midlands, in the North
> we say "Bath" not "Barth" (as they do in the South). In the North we use
> many old Anglo-saxon and Viking words, more so than the South I would think,
> so I'm not entirely convinced by the German argument. After all, the
> language has evolved a lot since then (primarily by the French).
> 
> The "ar" sound also seems to be used by the middle-classes an upper classes
> (in so-called RP), which adds a different factor to it.
> 
> Anthony
> 

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