Anglosaská filmová tvorba

23 April: Billy Elliot

Accents spoken in the film:

Northern English
Features:
  • Vowels:
      /ʌ /  → /ʊ, ə/: cut, punch, money, brother, X Mom
     /ɑː/ → /a/: grass, example, laugh
     /əʊ/ → monophthong /ɔː /: so, no, told
     /eɪ/ → monophthong /e:/: break, change
     /ɪə/ → disyllabic /i: ə/: here, beer

  • Consonants
     velar /ŋ/ → /n/: going, sleeping, messing
     glottalization of /t/ → / ʔ/: what, got, city
     dropping consonants: /h/, o’ course

Scottish /r/: → flap/tap

Use of English:

Northern vocabulary:
naught → nothing
bairn → child
•Ta-ra → Bye-bye
•“love” → a general way to address (mostly) a woman

Do you remember what the following expressions/idioms mean?
- picket
- scab
- tutu
- Nana
- fat chance
- not to have a leg to stand on
- stand to reason