Not to worry...maybe Irish Islam dialect can replace it.
So? Big deal.
Yeah, but no one could understand a blasted thing the bloke was saying anyway...
But we now have ebonics, Cajun, Boston, and like totally valley girl.
In a note left on his mantel, Mr. Hogg wrote “I had all you boffins fooled for 90 years.”
Mother forgive me.
RIP Mr. Hogg
Snuffed out?! He was the last guy and no one else apparently wanted to learn it.
That’s a shame.
However....there is still some of that left in the Yorkshire dialect (thee and thou) in the older generation. Took me a couple of months to tune my ear to it when I first moved there. ;-)
I speak two languages. English and profane.
Sounds like a fun guy to drink with.
I noticed in National Geographic a month or two back that a man in Oklahoma is the last fluent speaker of Euchee. That is an Indian dialect of what was once a very large tribe.
The county seat of Walton County, FL used to be Eucheeanna. It was moved to DeFuniak Springs sometime after the War Between the States.
True. "Standard" American and "standard" Brit speech patterns are spread far and wide by entertainment and news media, and have a way of rounding off the edges of regional accents.
They also have a way of spreading and popularizing speech patterns. There are things I think of as britishisms and even aussie-isms that have passed into popular speech (and I'm sure Brits and Aussies notice the same thing in reverse.
Jail speech has always been a source of new idioms, and again mass media has a way of making those mainstream so that something gangsters are saying in LA jails within a very few years are in mainstream speech in Little Rock.
Mass movements of people have the same effects; people are not staying put.
One of the things that intrigue me is the effort to revive celtic in the British Isles... Manx for example, Scottish, as wells as Irish which had never completely died out.
Well, at least we still have those fishermen who talk like the “Pepperidge Farm remembers” guy.
And when the old guy cursed... Man!
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... You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill...
Well if no one wanted to keep talking like that,then this is what happens.
It doesn’t sound like anything particularly incredible. Just lots of local slang and made up phrases for stuff like saying “At now kucka” when you want to say hello. or calling a dolphin a “tumbler”.
The reason why people stop using it because they couldn’t be understood.
I found a vid of him singing with family members! What a sweetie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTKOHkLLn0
All Scots speak Cromarty after a couple pints.
Years ago I was surprised to learn that no one today has ever heard old English spoken,it died out so long ago.
This was an example of a dialect that has now also passed away and will not be heard again. A contact with the past now that belongs to the past.
I wonder if they anywhere have this man’s speech recorded? Would’ve been a good idea.
Fascinating article. Thank you for posting.
Reminds me that the southern accent is rapidly disappearing in the USA. Visit just about any hamlet in the rural South, where most people over 40 talk pretty much like Andy Griffith — while the teenage waitresses at IHOP usually talk like Valley Girls. A sad development, IMO.