• Middlesbrough school urges parents to correct pupils' Tees dialect
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[url=http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2013/02/05/anger-as-middlesbrough-school-tells-parents-to-stop-children-speaking-teesside-84229-32748896/] Primary school in my town [/url] [quote]PARENTS have been asked to ensure their children use the Queen's English, rather than a more "Teesside" version. A letter sent home to parents whose children attend Sacred Heart Primary School in Middlesbrough gives advice about pronunciation and grammar. It details several phrases which are often used in class but need correcting - and many will be familiar to Teessiders! Some aim for grammatical accuracy - the correct use of “your” and “you’re” for example. But others have a distinct Teesside twang to them - take the phrase “I will wear my shirt for work” rather than using “shert” and werk”. “I done that” and “I seen that” may be used in the playground, but they’re a “no-no” in the exercise book. And school DOESN’T finish at “free fifteen” - it finishes at three fifteen! If yous lot reading this think “yous” is a correct term, think again. And you’d betta believe it - it’s “butter” and letter” not “butta” and “letta”! The letter gives 11 incorrect phrases in a left-hand column and the correct version of each phrase in the right-hand column. Carol Walker, Sacred Heart headteacher for 12 years, said: “I believe that basic communication skills are essential for life. “We would like to equip our children to go into the world of work and not be disadvantaged. “We need the children to know there is a difference between dialect, accent and standard English. The literacy framework asks children to write in standard English where tense, subject and verb agree. [/quote] [img]http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/gazettelive2/feb2013/3/2/the-letter-sent-to-parents-of-children-attending-sacred-heart-primary-school-412542535.jpg[/img] The North-East in a nutshell.
I like how their logo has a minis-swastika in it
Wait, so children are using colloquial terms in their work?
Their heads would probably explode if someone said "bubbler/bubbla" Edit: Never mind, wrong North East
u avin' a giggle m8?
If for writing and such. Yeah I'm all for it. But speech is a different issue.
"Gizit ere" lol
Kids and teens have been doing the same thing here in different parts of the USA. When I read some of their work like essays and papers, it left me in both hysterics and with a burdening sense of embarrassment hanging over my head at the same time.
Oh it's Yorkshire. Fuck them, Yorkshire accents are great.
giz dat fahkin letta or ill open you up cahnt
[video=youtube;HVjbf-dHjW0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVjbf-dHjW0[/video] Not yorkshire, but its a similar premise :v:
So everyone talks like Moe from the Simpsons? Awesome.
Incidentally they haven't used proper grammar in their corrections. [quote]This should be, I have done or seen that.[/quote] should be [quote]This should be: 'I have done or seen that'.[/quote] Don't correct the way people use english with flawed english
fukken pruscriptuvest wankuz
[QUOTE=dass;39486046]So everyone talks like Moe from the Simpsons? Awesome.[/QUOTE] Wrong accent, wrong country, wrong continent.
I went to school with a man who spoke like this. He was one of my best friends, but jesus fucking christ he was a mad ead fukkin ell e waz ahaha fuk u ye cunt xx
this is just how the north is, always has been
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rr7duIjFgo[/media] This is the only way I know the teeside accent
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzAD2GLfaNU[/media]
[QUOTE=Hiccuper;39486256][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rr7duIjFgo[/media] This is the only way I know the teeside accent[/QUOTE] I'm not actually joking. This is how everyone talks, including me, I actually know someone who did a voice on a Boro Tintin. The elderly are also heavily racist but everyone thinks they are cute when they are racist because they are old.
Correct it in their writing, sure. But if they're being anal about what they hear in the hallways they're taking it a bit too far. Colloquialisms are entirely normal and, in everyday conversation, are fine. They just don't fit into formal situations and times when you need to prove you know the 'proper' way to speak.
u wot
shert and werk you say? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-cPt_mBA1Y[/media]
[QUOTE=MajorMattem;39486117]I went to school with a man who spoke like this. He was one of my best friends, but jesus fucking christ he was a mad ead fukkin ell e waz ahaha fuk u ye cunt xx[/QUOTE] So he tends to switch over to a thick regional accent when pissed off? Sounds like me, although in another language.
I'm American and I say "I dunno" ???
Garry should put that image on the registration form for facepunch :v:
[QUOTE=TestECull;39486319]Correct it in their writing, sure. But if they're being anal about what they hear in the hallways they're taking it a bit too far. Colloquialisms are entirely normal and, in everyday conversation, are fine. They just don't fit into formal situations and times when you need to prove you know the 'proper' way to speak.[/QUOTE] From what I can gather, it was going in written school work. [QUOTE]“I done that” and “I seen that” may be used in the playground, but they’re a “no-no” in the exercise book.[/QUOTE]
As a North Easterner, I can say that only some of this list is true. More often than not, we don't pronounce "t"s in the middle of words, and that isn't even on the list. That stuff about "werk" and "shert" is ridiculous though. I have never seen that before.
Teesiders theme song [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlkx_cIqtE[/media] (School name)
Personally I think this is a good thing, I think it pays off not to speak like a lemon. Plus it's much more attractive when people speak properly
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