Where did your nick...

[sava 0]

Sexy: you're always sexy?

 

 

veronica: no, surely you jest?

 

what's a scouser?

[big-will 7]

Inhabitants of Liverpool are referred to as "Liverpudlians", and nicknamed "Scousers". They are noted for their distinctive accent and dialect, called Scouse.

 

Scouse is the accent or dialect of English found in the northern English city of Liverpool and adjoining urban areas of Merseyside. The Liverpool accent is highly distinctive and sounds wholly different from the accents used in the neighbouring regions of Cheshire and rural Lancashire.

 

The word Scouse was originally a variation of lobscouse (probably from the north German sailor's dish Labscaus), the name of a traditional dish of mutton stew mixed with hardtack eaten by sailors.

 

Lancashire has one of the most diverse selections of spoken accents of any English county or region. This is thought to be due to the large amount of immigration into the Liverpool area from Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man, Scotland, other parts of northern England, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The influence of these speech patterns was strong in Liverpool, distinguishing the accent of its people from those of surrounding Lancashire and Cheshire.

 

The characteristic features of the accent of the region (Wells 1982, section 4.4.10) include:

 

The /k/ phoneme at the end of a word is often pronounced [x], so that back [bax] sounds like German Bach and lock [lɒx] sounds like loch. Scouse also has distinctive realisations of the /t/ phoneme.

The th sounds /θ ð/ are often pronounced [t, d]. This feature is shared with Hiberno-English.

The nurse-square vowel merger, so that fur and fair sound the same. Phonetically, the merged vowel is typically [eː].

As elsewhere in the north of England, the accent does not use the broad A, pronouncing words like bath with the [a] of cat, and the vowels put and putt are often the same.

Unlike most other northern English accents, the vowels of face and goat (Received Pronunciation /eɪ/ and /əʊ/) are pronounced as diphthongs similar to those of RP.

The velar nasal [ŋ] is usually followed by a hard [g] sound in words where most other English accents have it at the end of a word or before a vowel, so that sing is [sɪŋg] as opposed to [sɪŋ] in Received Pronunciation. See Ng coalescence.

The /r/ sound is often a tap [ɾ], similar to Scots.

A fast, highly accented manner of speech, with a range of rising and falling tones not typical of most of northern England.

The definite article may be heavily elided, sometimes becoming just a glottal stop or being lost altogether.

Irish influences include the pronunciation of the letter 'h' as 'haitch' and the plural of 'you' as 'yous'. There are also idioms shared with Hiberno-English, such as "I know where you're at" (Standard English: "I know who you are").

 

Expressions include 'la', as an abbreviation of lad, used to mean mate or pal, e.g. "Yer arright den, la'?" ("You all right then, lad?"). This should not be confused with 'lah', an expression used in Singapore and Malaysian English, which has a different meaning. The interjection 'eh!' is equivalent to 'hey!' or 'oi!' in other parts of the UK.

[sava 0]

Wow

long answer, english people are strange

 

 

thanks bigger will!

[scouser 4]

I don't have a strong scouse accent, from the posh part you see.

[soubriquet 0]

You're bilingual then scouser: you can manage English too?

[Ocean11 0]

sava, does your nickname have anything to do with a river, about 933 km (580 mi) long, rising in two headstreams in the Julian Alps of Slovenia and flowing generally eastward to the Danube River at Belgrade, Yugoslavia? If not, please explain why you chose 'sava'.

[js 0]

... because I couldn't thunk of anything at the time and figured we all like 'subzero' temps during Winter.

 

The Avatar together with the name implies a different type of 'cool' - which regrettably, I am not but most people like Snoopy, so there ya go.

 

Surely NOT, Veronica??

[Oyuki kigan 0]

it means `Pray for Powder` 大雪祈願

[tsondaboy 0]

Originally inspired by a character from this movie called Choda-boy.

In purpose misspelled in order to match the word “Tsonda” which means “porn movie” in Greek slang.

 

More about my nick here:

http://www.snowjapanforums.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/8/3969/2.html?

 

The avatar has no connection with my nick. It comes from the animated series Robotech

By far my favorite anime.

[yamayamayama 2]

Mountains! 3 of em!

[BagOfCrisps 24]

I really like Walkers Prawn Cocktail crisps.

[sunrise 0]

Maybe Tsondaboy and I'm Sexy should get together and make a movie...

 

My name comes from my business name - sunrise music.

 

So - what's sava?

[giggsy 0]

Named after the legend himself, Ryan Giggs.

 

Oh yeah, and my surname is Giggs.

 

[AET 0]

I wonder where mine comes from.

[tsondaboy 0]

 Quote:

Originally posted by sunrise:
Maybe Tsondaboy and I'm Sexy should get together and make a movie...

And you could help us with the sound editing.

[sunrise 0]

You mean post production sound? That'd be a real hoot!

[tsondaboy 0]

I have faith in your singing skills!

[IIIII 2]

I have no idea where mine came from.

 

[spenshal-Mechanic-triplet 0]

I thought mine was very obvious.

[Yuki's Passion 1]

 Quote:

Originally posted by sunrise:
You mean post production sound? That'd be a real hoot!

why just help with the sound when you can add to it and sccchhhhwwwwiiiiiiiinnnnnggggg baby!

[sunrise 0]

Post production sound is really fun. Yama, sounds like you'd do a far better job than me...

 

 Quote:

Originally posted by spenshal-Mechanic-triplet:

I thought mine was very obvious.

er, no.....

[getting older 0]

I'm getting older. I suppose we all are.

[gamera 0]

Yep, can't avoid it

[Dims 0]

I'm pretty Dim, and like Dim sims

 

No actually just a abreviation of my name. Damian.....Damo.....Dames.......Dims.

 

A lot of my friends only know me as Dims, if someone uses my real name they don't know who they are talking about!!!!

[sava 0]

sava is based on the river