Interesting Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_dialect best David -- Please note that this e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this communication or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and then delete this message, any attachments, and all copies and backups from your computer.

Yup. Not a bad article .Despite the best attempts of Lynn High School to knock it out of us, I suppose I still think in Norfolk and have to deliberately use RP when talking to non Norfolk people. Mine is the Mid Norfolk rural dialect of my early childhood, I have lost the long ai in rain ( my daughter is sniggering over my shoulder) , never had arst for asked nor fillum nor the w for v although I do remember an old boy, a friend of my grandmother's who said wittles when it was his meal time. The dialect phrases- some are familiar, some may be local to Keith Skipper's patch around Beeston and nowadays of course some of the things they refer to has disappeared anyway. The EDP sometimes carries patronising little articles about the dialect and quotes some of the most common phrases but I reckon you can tell a Norfolk speaker by the way they use that and do and if they go to B & Coo. I don't find the use of that for it to be at all confined to the Flegg area, but when I first moved to Yarmouth several decades ago I thought their Norfolk was very slow and singy. Lynn Norfolk can be rather coarse. As David will know, from being on a bus full of mid Norfolk ladies going home from shopping in Dereham years ago, the sound was like the soft mutter of contented hens on a perch. My daughter reckons the noise level in our local supermarkets is much lower than that in the ones in the northern city where she was at uni. I think real Norfolk men seem to have a higher pitch in general to their voices than Northerners. When I had Oz rellies over they thought we sounded like Southern state Americans. Rosie On 11/03/2014 11:24, David Mills wrote: > Interesting Wikipedia entry > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_dialect > > best > > David

Interesting. Have lived in Canada now for 35 years or so and when I go back to Norfolk my initial reaction is to notice the accent. This fades after a few days however. I still retain more than a trace of my Norfolk accent however. It is interesting to be accused of having an accent by somebody speaking in a Southern US fashion (Y'all etc) and being asked if it is Australian! ( On second thoughts , do I qualify? I was born in Belton ,then Suffolk!) I've recently returned from Florida where my wife and I met up with an old school friend of her's from Caister on Sea who has lived in Boston Mass for 50 years and the accent is still there. (perhaps understandably since many of the Pilgrim Fathers came from East Anglia). They , the US, have troubles with accents other than their own, Spender, the Geordie crime series, was shown over here with sub titles! Dave On 11/03/2014 8:41 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Yup. Not a bad article .Despite the best attempts of Lynn High School to > knock it out of us, I suppose I still think in Norfolk and have to > deliberately use RP when talking to non Norfolk people. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Thanks for that David, very interesting for Cockney speaker. Has anyone heard the Radio 4 series "On Mardle Fen". The old fen man sounded good to me, I wondered what real Norfolk speakers thought of it after the comments on "Kingdom" Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mills" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 11:24 AM Subject: [NFK] Intreset: Dialect > Interesting Wikipedia entry > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_dialect > > best > > David > -- > > Please note that this e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be > privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure under > applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this > message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this > communication or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If > you have received this communication in error, please notify the > sender immediately by replying to this message and then delete this > message, any attachments, and all copies and backups from your > computer. > >

David Mills wrote: Interesting Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_dialect Well bless yew Young David, that there c'mpooter link's suff'n good. Dew the rest on y' tek a gander an'orl! Boy Bill

Just read with interest comments about the article. Both my husband's family and my own paternal lines came from Norfolk. My husband from Wimbotsham and mine from Fersfield. When we visited Norfolk a few years back I had no trouble understanding anyone but my husband complained of how difficult it was for him. Later though in north Scotland he had no trouble with the Scottish dialect. I did. In reading the list of phrases etc, yes I heard many of them even after three generations in Australia. Is it because the family stayed settled in the one area for most of that time and thereby avaided any other dialects from the newcomers? Jenny C ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mills" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:24 PM Subject: [NFK] Intreset: Dialect > Interesting Wikipedia entry > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_dialect > > best > > David > -- > > Please note that this e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be > privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure under > applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this > message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this > communication or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If > you have received this communication in error, please notify the > sender immediately by replying to this message and then delete this > message, any attachments, and all copies and backups from your > computer. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

By the way I did not say in my previous message, I am fourth generation in Australia and the first to ever visit Norfolk since the family left in 1853. Jenny C ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mills" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:24 PM Subject: [NFK] Intreset: Dialect > Interesting Wikipedia entry > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_dialect > > best > > David > -- > > Please note that this e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be > privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure under > applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this > message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this > communication or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If > you have received this communication in error, please notify the > sender immediately by replying to this message and then delete this > message, any attachments, and all copies and backups from your > computer. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >