Hull Accent Challenge 2015 City Of Culture 2017

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• published: 16 Oct 2015
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UK City Of Culture 2017 is Hull or Kingston Upon Hull if you can be bothered to say all that. The Hull accent is fast and removes many letters which makes it the short hand of accents. Nowhere in Yorkshire has an accent like Hull's and it is distinctly different... which has negative and positive results. Good points of the Hull accent (1) You can often tell who is West or East Hull (North is classed as East) (2) Like Most North Eastern accents it often comes top for most trusted accents. (3) Thanks to its abbreviation or abbreviated words... it is very fast EG Would Not is Wouldn't.... is Wunt in Hull same applies with Couldn't...... and so on. (4) When shouting it terrifies Londoners as the Hull accent sounds more aggressive thanks to its harsh vowel sounds, notably A , O and U. (5) As the north is generally regarded as being more friendly that the south, the accent is regarded as friendly and better mannered thanks to more words meaning "Hello, Please, Thank You, and Goodbye etc" (6) There is "old" and current Hull accent, East Hull is older sounding eg the word "Door" Old/East sounds like "doer"West is "daww" (7) "Going On Road" West is Hessle Road,East is Holderness Road and everyone just knows that. (8) "The Room" is always the Front Room/Living Room (9) I thank my lucky stars I am not a Brummie! BAD points of the Hull Accent (1) People will refuse to understand you and ask you to say things over and over for their amusement. (2) Want to be on telly? Forget it! Broadcasters struggle to understand so wont risk it on the airwaves. (3) The Hull accent has so many original words that stepping out of Hull can cause a challenge further out and people look at you as if you are talking a complete new language; (4) Automated telephone systems Siri and Cortina are awful at understanding the Hull Accent forcing us to "posh up" our talking... and STILL it goes wrong. (5) As the accent has so many differences to the rest of Yorkshire, It is often guessed as Manchester or Newcastle by Londoners, sometimes Liverpool or anywhere else miles away.... I was once asked if I was German... seriously!? (6) Certain types of food have there own names in hull, notably Bread Cakes and Pikeletts, which means you will never find them elsewhere. So 2015 Hull Accent Challenge is not at all different to the one I did 3 Years ago! (7) If you are an outsider and your name begins with an H or I, you will have to deal with the fact it will not sound the way you expect. (8) The Hull accent gets some stick as it sounds "uneducated" well tell that to Maureen Lipman, John Alderton, William Wilberforce.... I could go on. Lets not forget the are lots of well spoken morons. (9) Ronnie Pickering broad the Hull Accent into the spotlight for the wrong reasons.