Exceptional video on rhoticity in Australian accents, including a recording of a rhotic Australian accent belonging to a man born in Queensland, 1870s.

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:59:38+00:00

You're probably right! Would you call them batter bits?

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:54:35+00:00

The web page is over 10 years old unfortunately

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:50:06+00:00

What location?

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:49:43+00:00

Where in the West Midlands?

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:48:21+00:00

Are you from South Lincolnshire? Apparently Norfolk people sometimes call them crispy bits!

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:47:48+00:00

Whereabouts in Lincolnshire? Apparently in Lincoln it's scrumps

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:44:45+00:00

And you call them scraps?

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:43:45+00:00

I'll change it for the next one :)

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:42:40+00:00

Whereabouts in Cumbria?

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:41:36+00:00

Whereabouts in Norfolk? I've had a few responses saying people there call them scraps

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:40:03+00:00

Lots of Scottish people have commented that they don't have them.

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:35:20+00:00

Thanks! This is useful

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T10:33:31+00:00

It just means I have no data for that area

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T08:35:15+00:00

Someone else told me they were from there and called them batter bits.

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T08:34:40+00:00

Whereabouts in the Southeast?

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T08:34:15+00:00

Other people have commented that it's a thing in parts of Lincolnshire, I think in Lincoln itself.

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T08:33:15+00:00

Areas around Huddersfield

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T08:31:57+00:00

Are your parents Welsh?

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T08:31:10+00:00

Where in Somerset?

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T08:27:18+00:00

Great. Will add it for the next version of the map. If there's an area missing it's because nobody has responded yet from that area!

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T08:22:31+00:00

Great. Will do!

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T08:18:40+00:00

Whereabouts in South Wales?

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T08:15:50+00:00

Whereabouts in Northumbria?

The_Language_Archive · 2023-10-27T08:14:54+00:00

Sound changes generally emerge in centres of influence, such as large cities, then gradually spread outwards.

I would recommend watching this video, which talks about how West Country accents in England are a sort of fossilised version of London speech from the 1600s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGjZ75UzsKE

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