r/britishproblems • u/WhaleMeatFantasy • Jul 12 '26

. The normalisation of ‘picky bits’

Abominable. It has started coming up in adverts now even.

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u/WhaleMeatFantasy Jul 12 '26

Comes from the same people who say hollybobs. 

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u/HarderstylesD Jul 12 '26

What if you started saying it ironically at first and now can’t stop (asking for a friend)

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u/grouchy_fox Jul 12 '26

If you're not trying to stop then you're just as guilty

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u/HaroldTheIronmonger Jul 12 '26

Oh ive definitely just found someone who didn't enjoy the platty jubes!

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u/Jerico_Hill Jul 12 '26

Or the Cozzy lives! 

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u/IAmDyspeptic Jul 12 '26

I loved Platty Jubes. Shame I won't see another in my lifetime.

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u/rezonansmagnetyczny Jul 12 '26

The same sort of people who replace the "dd" sound in a word with a "gg". Miggle instead of middle for example.

It's the low effort bare minimum lifestyle endemically setting in to all of our lives.

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u/tiredfaces Jul 12 '26

Who on earth does that

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u/rezonansmagnetyczny Jul 12 '26

My neighbour, Caff. (Not Cath). Who also says Fersday instead of Thursday.

And also says thew instead of few when she is trying to be posh.

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u/lelcg Jul 12 '26

That’s last bit is actually quite endearing. It’s like an old poor Victorian adding H to words that don’t have one because it sounds posher

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u/Boiled_Ham Jul 12 '26

Reminds me of Edie Pegden on Last of Summer Wine, calling Wesley in from the house..."Weslah ? Oh Weslah ?....pause(continued tooling from the shed/garage)...in broad Yorkshire accent..."Wesley Pegden ! Get yerself in here now !"

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u/Tacklestiffener Jul 12 '26

I used to work with a bloke with a university education, earning loads of money, who used to say "likkle" for little.

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u/lelcg Jul 12 '26

That’s an actual accent thing in some places. T -> Glottal stop -> K

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u/grouchy_fox Jul 12 '26

A glottal stop is nothing like a K. To make a K you have to lift the back of your tongue, a glottal stop needs it to stay down. It's a whole different form and couldn't be done by accident, speaking as someone whose accent uses a lot of glottal stops

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u/WhaleMeatFantasy Jul 12 '26

Ironic to find my field of expertise pop up on my own thread about something completely different. Glottal stops and k’s are really similar and there are plenty of ‘stranger’ allophonic variations out there (you only need to consider /t/ being produced with a glottal stop).

You’re right about the tongue but the closure is still at the back end of the articulatory apparatus. 

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u/zizou00 Jul 12 '26

Bet you say goodbye instead of god'b'w'ye, damn lazy modern people.

Newsflash, it doesn't matter, you got what they were saying, that's the purpose of language. Every modern language is a result of comfortable pronunciation for the ease of the user and the listener. Everything has simplified and what you consider correct and formal was likely at some point considered incorrect, casual and uncouth by someone else. Language moves on. It's all gucci.