Cardiff accent

The traditional Cardiffian accent is somewhere between Welsh and Northern-ish, it's quite weird. However, to most people it's perfectly comprehensible, as it lacks the blurriness of other Welsh accents - sounds are much more defined.

Here's an example:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/sites/voices/pages/cardiff.shtml

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Pirouette

10

I have a slight Cardiff accent, it's mostly evident in words such as Earth and ear. Ear often turns out sounding like 'yur'.

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eulerwaswrong

i live a few miles from cardiff but dont have anything like you typical "kaardiff accent" - a cardiff accent is quite different to a welsh accent.

A welsh accent - especially a west/north walean sounds very lyrical and quite nice but a cardiff accent is horrible.

How do you define a london accent by the way? i dont think there is such a thing as a "london" accent

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eulerwaswrong

Pirouette

I have a slight Cardiff accent, it's mostly evident in words such as Earth and ear. Ear often turns out sounding like 'yur'.

how else are supposed to say it?? - ear is said as "yur" - only wierd people say ear as "e-er".

how can you say earth differently

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Epik High

yipkc

I wonder how is cardiff accent compared to other cities in terms of comprehensibility and 'elegancy.' I personally think that the london accent is the nicest.

Because you aren't going to a particularly good university, you're basing prestige on the accent of those around? That is what I see in the purpose of this thread. :cool:

Personally, I like girls with a cardiff accent more than girls with a cockney accent.

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tiger_vio

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mines a bit stronger than a cardiff accent as im about 30 mins to the northeast, but similar. cardiff accents just arent welsh enough for me sorry! :P

Reply 9

Davydude

When I went down to the open-day, I was shocked that I only heard just a few welsh accents.
Which is a little bit of a shame as I quite like it

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I have the people going to Cardiff on my MSN in a group labelled "Caaaaadiff" :p:

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Triplet1

RightSaidJames

The traditional Cardiffian accent is somewhere between Welsh and Northern-ish, it's quite weird. However, to most people it's perfectly comprehensible, as it lacks the blurriness of other Welsh accents - sounds are much more defined.

Here's an example:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/sites/voices/pages/cardiff.shtml

My sister is doing music at Cardiff. :smile:

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Triplet1

My sister is doing music at Cardiff. :smile:

Can I ask her first name? I've talked to a few people, would be good to talk to more :smile:

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Triplet1

RightSaidJames

Can I ask her first name?

Laura. She is gona be living in talybont south. :smile:

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Triplet1

Laura. She is gona be living in talybont south. :smile:

Thanks, I'll track her down, although I might have her on MSN already :ninja:

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crunchman

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tiger_vio

mines a bit stronger than a cardiff accent as im about 30 mins to the northeast, but similar. cardiff accents just arent welsh enough for me sorry! :P

Heh mine's probably too much :biggrin:

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the london accent is not the best, the carrdiff one is even though its not really an accent and more of a lack of a welsh accent but it is better than your accent, whatever your accent is unleless it is a carrdiff accent then it is the perfection.

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Original post by eulerwaswrong

how else are supposed to say it?? - ear is said as "yur" - only wierd people say ear as "e-er".

how can you say earth differently

??? it is litarlly written as 'ear' you pathetic child

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Original post by tiger_vio

mines a bit stronger than a cardiff accent as im about 30 mins to the northeast, but similar. cardiff accents just arent welsh enough for me sorry! :P

carddiff is the capital of wales, therfore it is the welsh one and the others are not welsh enough, sorry to inform you

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