[Closed] How do you pronounce to

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Though I go 'tae the shoaps'

Another wrong un then 😉

Too.

Though I go ‘tae the shoaps’

How uncouth!

I "go doon the street"

usually "fur messages"

Correctly.

I have a man do it for me

I didn’t think you’d go anywhere Flashy? Surely one has servants for such things as leaving the estate?

Edit - So does WCA!

Being the well spoken Yorkshireman that I am, I go t’ shops.

I appear to be slightly posher than tomhoward

There seems to be a growing tendency to just say t with a soft er, deliberately not saying too in case it causes confusion. It doesn't of course because it's all about context. I go with too too but there are two too many ways to spell to.

I can't imagine there's a difference really, to is pronounced 2, too is pronounced 2.

You sassenachs are weirdos.

Being the well spoken Yorkshireman that I am, I go t’ shops.

Being the well spoken Lancashireman that I am, I go t’ shops also. "To" isn't a word, it's a glottal stop.

My wife, posh and from Cheshire

Oxymoron.

You are quite right there are regional differences, no right or wrong way to pronounce 'to'. For what it's worth I say to with a long o, but then I'm a soft Southern Jesse.

I've noticed that politicians and political commentators think that it's pronounced "ter".

Tae

Two

An'aw

My wife, posh and from Cheshire pronounces it too.

I'm with your wife 😉

Depends, dunnit? Google 'schwa'.

My wife, posh and from Cheshire

Oxymoron.

Bearing in mind where I’m from pretty much everywhere remotely south of my hometown is posh 😀

I love how things change depending on where you’re based. The whole barm cake, breadroll, t-cake thing is another great example. If you pronounce it the same as two you’re definitely a wrong un though

I love how things change depending on where you’re based. The whole barm cake, breadroll, t-cake thing is another great example.

It's astonishing how local accents and dialects are too. More than once I've had "I bet I know where you're from" and then been told my home town and a neighbouring one.

Barm is very Preston, I live like ten miles away as the crow flies and I'd even never heard the term until I was a student there.

Surely being from yorkshire, it should be "going t' shops'?

Yorkshire is another language anyway, like Bristolian, or Glaswegian.

I love how things change depending on where you’re based. The whole barm cake, breadroll, t-cake thing is another great example. If you pronounce it the same as two you’re definitely a wrong un though

Not that long ago, staying at a campsite in south Yorks, we go for a fryup and get asked if we want breadcakes with that. Bread what??? Being from Kent (also having lived in Lincolnshire a good 20 years of my life, so it's not that far away), I didn't realise they meant a bread roll, or a bap.

Also, snow in Bristol doesn't settle, it pitches. It's Pitching! What? What's pitching? The snow!! Ehh?? 😀

I’m with your wife

Bloody hell, what a way to find out!

Too. Not posh Cheshire but Sth Manc.

It might be tu nearer the city centre.

Barm is very Preston, I live like ten miles away as the crow flies and I’d even never heard the term until I was a student there.

I can confirm barm is anywhere west of preston. I'm in Blackpool and we eat bacon barms. We do not eat bacon rolls.

But people east of us on the fylde Coast say window bottom instead of window sill, what's that about!?

Anyway, Lancashire, 'to' is pronounced t.

I’m with your wife

Bloody hell, what a way to find out!

This is making me laugh. Perhaps they bonded over adding an unnecessary O to the word.

we eat bacon barms. We do not eat bacon roll

Bacon butty round my way

Am off ter the garige ter ave a bath.

t'

Thinking about it t’ is how I pronounce it. I was trying (and failing) to write down how it sounds. Tu seemed about right, like the beginning of towards. Need sound on here 😂

Scone

Depends, dunnit? Google ‘schwa

This really. Can be a stressed or unstressed (schwa) part of the sentence depending on use.

Unstressed I'd pronounce it teh
Teh be or not teh be

Accent changes 8 mile down t'road from me, supposedly a 150 year hangover from the migrant workers in the two main local industries (iron mining and steelworks drew workers from different parts of the country hence the change)
We say Skool, 4 mile downt road it changes to Sku-el...
Then fashions change - dad's generation pronounce book, look, cook with Scots/Lancs -uke , but that was frowned upon when I was at Sku-el and it died out. Older townsfolk say Becoss, we say because, etc.

To = 2 where I am.

A Yorkshireman shouldn't utter the letter T - it would just be:

I'm off {action} shop/pub/scrap yard.

# replace {action} with some physical action i.e. shrug or similar.

True GlennQuagmire. I remember Michael McIntyre’s shit Yorkshire joke involving Narnia.

T’Lion, T’Witch and T’Wardrobe.

No Micheal it’s just Lion, Witch n’ Wardrobe

Am gaunt’e heid hame, yer aww dae-in ma heid in ya ****in bams

Pretty much how I express my desire to leave a stressful situation,

Also, snow in Bristol doesn’t settle, it pitches. It’s Pitching! What? What’s pitching? The snow!! Ehh??

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/history/bristol-snow-pitch-stick-settle-889363

It’s what diversity’s all about. Innit.

"To" rhymes with "do" and "so.

“To” rhymes with “do” and “so.

One of those is true, the other is not.

dad’s generation pronounce book, look, cook with Scots/Lancs -uke

What? How else do you pronounce them??

We have a few weird dialects round here, usually seperated by a hill. Supposedly there is a Greenock accent too but I've never heard it.

Supposedly there is a Greenock accent too but I’ve never heard it.

I have.

I know a few people from " 'eh Riviera "

"Too" if you're emphasising it, "tә" if not.

“To” rhymes with “do” and “so.

If it rhymes with so then that would mean you pronounce it as toe, at least in my accent it would. I’ve not heard it pronounced that way before.

Common southern scum here, variously: ta (mostly) tU (depending on context) and dane (as in "I'm goin' dane tane, ****er" )

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True GlennQuagmire. I remember Michael McIntyre’s shit Yorkshire joke involving Narnia.

T’Lion, T’Witch and T’Wardrobe.

No Micheal it’s just Lion, Witch n’ Wardrobe.

Really?
How rude 🙂

T't (note the second t) replaces 'to the',just as wi't replaces 'with the'.

Take note southeners. Or suvveners, as I beleive you call yourselves these days.

Anyway, Cheshire, being below Deansgate, is in the south anyway. You know, fields of hops, flat beer, rudeness, estate agents skiing down mountains of cocaine etc........🙂

Ah yes, the tut meaning to the. Stokies don't have this problem as they delete all words of three letters or fewer.
"Are we off to the shops" is expressed as "Gooin Onley?"

Getting OT now, but this is one of my favourite Yorkshire things. Made even better by the fact there’s a Bob in my family.

Thar Bob owes ar Bob ten bob!And if thar Bob dunt giv ar Bob that ten bob that thar Bob owes ar Bob, Ar Bob'll give thar Bob a bob on't nose