Talk:Suffolk dialect

Examples
Found http://www.soundingboardproductions.co.uk/suffolkvoices.shtml - provides an example of the Suffolk accent (free samples of about 90 seconds).

Stereotypes
This article enforces stereotypes of the suffolk dialect. I have a suffolk accent, I know how people talk within these far distances, and I am feel insulted because people don't use these words anymore. (only old ladies and stereotypical farmers)

Here is my list of changes I suggest.


 * "Tommorrow" is "Too-more-oh"
 * "I'll" is simply "I'll"
 * "Soap" is "So-p"
 * "Seen" is "Sea-nn"
 * "Picture" is "Pick-chur"
 * "Lecture" is "Leck-chur"
 * "Shopping" is "Shop-ing", its unlikely to hear the word "Sharping". I have no idea how people get those words wrong like that
 * "Going" is like "Glowing"
 * "Int" is obsolete.
 * "It" is "It"
 * "The" is commonly changed to "deh" ("I'm going to deh shop")
 * "Bear" is "Bare"

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.231.181 (talk) 13:32, 30 October 2013 (UTC)


 * There's a contradiction - road to 'rood' or 'rud'. While I'm not sure about parts of the north of the county, it's 'rud' as far as I know and 'rood' in Norfolk. 121.54.54.60 (talk) 13:14, 18 April 2016 (UTC)


 * You do have a point there. I'm currently working on it and would consider what you've said here. It's certainly quite bad and I'm going to do a makeover of it. — they call me AWESOMEmeeos ... [ˈɔɪ̯]! 03:01, 30 April 2018 (UTC)


 * I'm from the South of Suffolk, I've heard both 'rood' and 'rud' from my born and bred Suffolk grandparents.

Merger with East Anglian English
This article was previously (and unilaterally) merged into East Anglian English by a single user who appears not to have followed WP:PM. Whilst this article clearly has issues which need addressing, and whilst there may be an argument to be made for merging it into another article, such a merger should only happen after a merger has been proposed, flagged on the article itself, and then discussed until consensus has been reached.

A potential source for cleaning up the page might be: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110577549/html Antonine (talk) 22:30, 30 September 2023 (UTC)