Slightly off-topic, but needs saying.
While I wouldn't say its 'common' in the class sense of the word, this issue gets right on my tits and its all over this QOTW.

Rant on...

People who complain about regional accents, their associated idioms and non-RP pronunciation are total CUNTS. That's YOU, yes YOU Mr/Ms twat, who has just been the 53rd person to post up another hilarious post, bemoaning the fact that with over 300 million people speaking English as a 1st language on the planet, there are some regional variations. How fucking dare the world not all speak exactly the same version of standardised English?

Language is organic and constantly evolving, why is this offensive to some people? If you have ever read Chaucer, Shakespeare or Wordsworth you would realise this and not be such a snobby cock-snot? Christ, talk your own grandparents and they will probably speak differently to you, I guess that means 'grad-pappa' is wrong.

Spoken English is not subject to the same rules of the written word. There is no 'right way' to speak English, the only rule is that you do your best to get your point across to your audience.

Before I get flamed, I want to point out I understand the difference between banter and snobbery. Banter is when I mock my common as pig shit step dad for his black country accent. Fucking scumbag.

Rant off...
(Bam Bam McPenis will change all this when he is fuhrer., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 7:05, 13 replies)

Yeah, but c'mon
the Hull accent is fucking awful, no matter what.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 7:08, closed)

Coming from Doncaster - I totally agree
Not as bad as a brummy accent though :)
(Miggyman, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 7:34, closed)

Hull accent
I nerrrr what you mean.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:18, closed)

This.
www.b3ta.com/questions/common/post274353
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 7:40, closed)

Kipper tie, sir?
*clicks*
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 8:07, closed)

noddy holder?
hello there!
( gypsy turnips, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:56, closed)

*clicky*
David Crystal would agree with you, too :)
( gypsy turnips, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:59, closed)

aye
Not wrong.
And Shakespeare was a Brummy.
(tweebianmonkey Should be known as Widget, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:57, closed)

Too true
It still amazes me that millions of people, including many academics who should know better, would rather ignore masses of evidence that Shakespeare was from Stratford-Upon-Avon and had a grammar school education, then joined the theatre, in order to suggest it was Francis Bacon or Elizabeth I (both of which theories are actually equally daft), rather than admit that a Brummie could have written Hamlet.

For a good example of people who should know better: go here:

www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/sep/09/theatrenews.theatre
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 0:03, closed)

Stratford isn't Birmingham?
Nothing wrong with a good old Black Country accent either!

Ar bin ya ar kid?
(Dangerous Disco Trev Isn't my real name, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 1:47, closed)

Nope, but it's Warwickshire
Which in those days was the same county. And the people from round there kind of sound the same.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 0:04, closed)

I say!
There may indeed be no 'right way' to speak English, but Chaucer is certainly the wrong way.
(EffinDoubt is breaking glass on, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 13:07, closed)

Yes but, having said that...
Scouse. Please tell me that you forgot all about scouse when you had that little rant. I am sure that, if you had recently heard a little scouse, you would have included it as an exception because there really is no excuse for that grating, whining, pathetic skreech of a tongue.
(karnuvap, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 15:46, closed)