How do you pronounce "Poorly" ?

Any other pronunciation issues, we will record requests!!!!
To a point!

Go nuts!

How are you saying 'nuts'?

Does it ryhme with "butts"?

of course i fucking does!

or is that "foo-king"?

(and Grant, i expected better from ye wee laddie )

no, "Fuck- ing" just like poorly is "poor-ly"! (had to get it back on-topic)

Jones wrote:

Poorly and Hawley definitely don't rhyme as the 'oo' in Poorly is pronounced like the 'oo' in 'Boooo' (the scaring sound ghosts make) and the 'aw' in Hawley is pronounced like the 'aw' in 'Awwww' the sound Jones makes when she sees a kitten...


Oh, ahem, and no canvassing has taken place...

Down south, we say 'poor' like 'awww' as you put it Jones. As such, they rhyme! Win!

and in brum-town, we say poor like awww also

but ive noticed that older generations brummies say poo-er, as in sewer, or, err, do-her

At least I know, that "much" is pronounced in mancunish "mooch" and I noticed, that "winter wonderland" sounds in mancunish almost GERMAN! (Winter Wunderland (Winnter Woonderlaaand)) and I know a Cockney-Joke (did I told it here yet?) about a non british man who comes to London. He has an accident and awakes in hospital. Panicked he askes the nurse: "Came I here to die?" She answers "No Yesterday"
And when I was in Scotland years ago I asked for the way and all I understood was: "RRRRRaydaccrrrross over the rrrroundabout....."

But I guess, you might have the same problems in Germany. The Berlinians change a G into a J (the G like in Guy into a Y. They say not Guten Tag but Juten Tach (Yooten Takh )
The saxonians turn every T into a D, P into a B and K into G (Guten Tag sounds "Goodn Daaag")

And how the Bavarians talk Elbowfreak might know best

PS.
I always wondered why the heck Plymouth does not rhyme to Portsmouth

Isn't it just out-of-touch TV presenters and upper-class MPs who speak the Queen's English these days?
Received pronunciation ain't wot it used to be, innit.

Hey, Leo say 'cup of tea' and 'kipper tie'...

mrswoman wrote:

Isn't it just out-of-touch TV presenters and upper-class MPs who speak the Queen's English these days?
Received pronunciation ain't wot it used to be, innit.

Hey, Leo say 'cup of tea' and 'kipper tie'...

i'm not THAT brummie. Im not like Mr. Birmingham, from Birminghamtown, Birminghamshire, Birminghamland.

I say "tee" and "tie. Not "tay" and "tuay", or "tie" and "tie".

Then again. You get some Brummies who would say those as the same. They really piss me off. Its like they do it deliberately...

Maybe we can just agree that we all have different accents ...
(and that poorly doesn't rhyme with Hawley, heehee... )

Ok, lets agree that we all have different accents. And that Hawley rhymes with poorly.

but it doesn't in my accent and the poll seems to agree with me

So, all your accents suck

BBC accent FTW!

I have never heard a BBC presenter say 'Pawwwrly'

watch the news

they will say that it does

Dabamash wrote:

Ok, lets agree that we all have different accents. And that Hawley rhymes with poorly.

No. It. Does. Not.

If you say "bacon" in a West Indian accent, it sounds like "beer can" in a Northern accent.

Just thought I'd share that with you.

cool

surely ... 'ur' as in purr
poorly ... 'or' as in paw
Hawley ... 'or'

But I'm originally from Derbyshire. My Dad came from London and pronounced them all ur !!

Why does hawley have an 'r' sounda at all? :S

That's the english language for you ! Try teaching children how to spell words like this.