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Well said Jean - let too many furriners into Norfolk and we won't know where the hell we are! How on earth could you pronounce "burgh" as "burr" - never was until outsiders got hold of it!

Never pronounced Cley either, as those posh foreign people do, always been Clay to me since I was a tiddler up that way!

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57 minutes ago, oldgregg said:

You'll hear 'Burr' a lot because of the spelling, but that is incorrect.

Oh, like "Stookey" instead of Stiffkey? or "Windam" instead of Wymondham. or "Haysbruh" instead of Happisburgh?

It may be incorrect but it is Norfolk dialect.

Doon' tchoo noo narthin?

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1 hour ago, FairTmiddlin said:

And you always know when you are in Norfolk. When you hear Hint used instead of isn't.

Exactly!   Norfolk people never drop their aitches. This sets it apart from Essex or Cockney.

"Oi hint never hard nothin loik it".

This is also an example of the classic Norfolk triple negative!

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1 hour ago, Vaughan said:

 

"Oi hint never hard nothin loik it".

This is also an example of the classic Norfolk triple negative!

I grew up surrounded by broad Suffolk so am nearly bilingual  - my favourite is "Well do that don't, that did do!"  Said by my dear old grandad when something wasn't where he expected it to be (probably on the shelf in the back'us)

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2 hours ago, Vaughan said:

This is also an example of the classic Norfolk triple negative!

Good old Anglo Saxon. In that language more negatives just emphasised the negative'ness. This whole concept of negatives cancelling out each other is just an imposition on English from another language's grammatical rules. I'm not sure why I decided to study Old and Middle English in Uni, but it was fun and turned a lot of 'rules' upside down. 

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