Rind and rind the rindabite
Is "Rind and rind the rindabite" regional, strictly speaking? Unless perhaps if travelling to the planet our blue-blooded lizard overlords reputedly hail from?
Drivers may soon find their satnav voice change accent as they move between different parts of the country. Sorry, that's, "droivers miy soon foind thar setnev vices chainge exent as thu moove bitween diff'rent paaarts o' the cunchree, a'raight?" Mio Navman is considering addings software that will change the dialect of the …
The Scots accent is apparently the second most popular - so they're going to give us Geordie, Cockney, Brummie and Mancunian. Why no guttural Glaswegian or refined Morningside (posh part of Edinburgh)? It also begs the question of which accent it will switch to when you cross the border.
Back in the 70s I was a student, and was on the Isle of Cumbrae off Glasgow for a course. The locals speak (or spoke then) particularly distinctive Lalland Scots. On of my fellow students was a country lass from deep in the west country. There were occasions when she genuinely needed someone to act as an interpreter because mutual comprehension was problematic.
Being a brummie (sorry), we rarely, if ever, use the word 'roundabout' - to us they are islands (although I know this strictly speaking is something else). So what in a 'posh' accent would be "At thee rind-a-bite, take thee second exit', would be 'Strayit ow-va at the oyland' in Brummie.
PS. Please let the Brummie accetn be proper Brummie - and not Black Country, or else the most spoken phrase would be 'Yam lost, yam!'.
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In Dundee "roundabouts" are called circles. So is the SatNav voice going to use local terms?
It'll be great to hear it pronounce Footdee in Aberdeen (pron: Fittie) and all those other local dialects.
It'd be even better if it had a local dialect/language function where it changed as it went through the different areas. I reckon there'd be several thousand of those in "English" for mainland UK alone - not to mention Welsh, Gaelic and other languages..
Ah what a glorious future we have before us!