FoxesAreBlue Posted 30 June 2014 Posted 30 June 2014 Yeah if they're going for a pronunciation thing I'd have sprung for "les-toh". "Les-tah" sound a bit cockney/southern. Either way - the Leicester accent is shit and we sound like dullard, hillbillies of the midlands. Why anybody would want to highlight this I do not know.
Spudulike Posted 30 June 2014 Posted 30 June 2014 Yeah if they're going for a pronunciation thing I'd have sprung for "les-toh". "Les-tah" sound a bit cockney/southern. Either way - the Leicester accent is shit and we sound like dullard, hillbillies of the midlands. Why anybody would want to highlight this I do not know. We should celebrate our accent. It's not shit. I find the home grown negativity shit. Leicester is officially the coolest place on the planet. FACT.
Danizen Posted 30 June 2014 Posted 30 June 2014 Yeah if they're going for a pronunciation thing I'd have sprung for "les-toh". "Les-tah" sound a bit cockney/southern. Either way - the Leicester accent is shit and we sound like dullard, hillbillies of the midlands. Why anybody would want to highlight this I do not know. When it comes to Midlands accents, I think we're lucky. The Birmingham accent, the Black Country accent, the Cov, accent and the Stoke accent are much worse. I don't really notice the Leicester accent unless I hear it on TV or radio.
Jace Posted 30 June 2014 Posted 30 June 2014 These are great is there a Leicester Hereford alliance shirt coming out soon please?
ROB-THE-BLUE Posted 30 June 2014 Posted 30 June 2014 Absolute sh*te, tacky as hell and as said it isn't even the right pronunciation going with the Leicester accent!
lifted*fox Posted 30 June 2014 Posted 30 June 2014 It's just a shit t-shirt really isn't it. Shit design, shit price, probably shit material. People are only bumming it off because the guy from Kasabian wore one, which he could just about get away with because it was sort of in context when he did it. Soooo... Yeah.
Danizen Posted 30 June 2014 Posted 30 June 2014 It's just a shit t-shirt really isn't it. Shit design, shit price, probably shit material. People are only bumming it off because the guy from Kasabian wore one, which he could just about get away with because it was sort of in context when he did it. Soooo... Yeah. I was thinking along the same lines. In what situation would it be appropriate to wear a t-shirt with Les-Tah on it? Either if you're a rock star doing a gig in your hometown or your hitchhiking from Manches-tah.
Mike the Metal Ed Posted 30 June 2014 Posted 30 June 2014 Yeah if they're going for a pronunciation thing I'd have sprung for "les-toh". "Les-tah" sound a bit cockney/southern. Either way - the Leicester accent is shit and we sound like dullard, hillbillies of the midlands. Why anybody would want to highlight this I do not know. Never been to Dudley or West Bridgford have you?
MC Prussian Posted 30 June 2014 Posted 30 June 2014 I admire the effort. Step One: Take any shirt. Step Two: Put some words in a lame font on it, preferably Arial, Georgia or Times New Roman. Step Three: Try to sell them for about ten times the amount of what they initially cost. Step Four: Cry. Because no douche is that dumb to fall for it.
FoxesAreBlue Posted 1 July 2014 Posted 1 July 2014 We should celebrate our accent. It's not shit. I find the home grown negativity shit. Leicester is officially the coolest place on the planet. FACT. When it comes to Midlands accents, I think we're lucky. The Birmingham accent, the Black Country accent, the Cov, accent and the Stoke accent are much worse. I don't really notice the Leicester accent unless I hear it on TV or radio. Never been to Dudley or West Bridgford have you? Okay I'll concede that perhaps not the worst in the Midlands, that's reserved for Dudley. But it is still awful, before it worked in the states I knew that we talked in slang but in my head it was the british equivalent of a South American "Texan drawl", a poor analogy but with the words we pronounce all melding together..... Kind of "Oh-rite-ma'e-goo-in-shop-d'ya-won-owt?" (Alright mate? I am going to the shops, do you want anything?) Problem was in the US nobody could understand me, so I ended up talking like them and picking up their accent so so I could get by without repeating myself one hundred times a day. Anyway, after an extended time away, I came home and could actually hear our accent, I realised how terrible it really is, I was actually embarrassed listening to my family speak because they just sounded like idiots. We sound like an amplified version of Vicky Pollard. How anybody from other areas of the country think we sound I don't know. I know people abuse scoucers, mancs, brummies etc but at least theirs has a bit of character to them - ours is so shit nobody even parodies it!
ozleicester Posted 1 July 2014 Posted 1 July 2014 Bah! The Leicester accent is poetry to the ear! Yes you have to change it when you are overseas otherwise no fvcker understand you, but for fvcks sake, be proud of it... or at least dont be ashamed. Oh and being an aussie these days, my shirt needs to say Les -Dah
sphericalfox Posted 1 July 2014 Posted 1 July 2014 Bah! The Leicester accent is poetry to the ear! Yes you have to change it when you are overseas otherwise no fvcker understand you, but for fvcks sake, be proud of it... or at least dont be ashamed. Oh and being an aussie these days, my shirt needs to say Les -Dah You haven't put unnecessary question marks to suggest your Oz inflections and constant sentences of self-doubt and diffidence.
ozleicester Posted 1 July 2014 Posted 1 July 2014 You haven't put unnecessary question marks to suggest your Oz inflections and constant sentences of self-doubt and diffidence.
StanSP Posted 1 July 2014 Posted 1 July 2014 Apparently John McEnroe actually said 'LIE-CHESTER' the other day.
FoxInTheBirstallBox Posted 2 July 2014 Posted 2 July 2014 I may put on the gullible leicester Facebook pages that the new shirt actually has LES-TAH on it...They believe anything! Brace for the up-roar
Merging Cultures Posted 2 July 2014 Posted 2 July 2014 I am in agreement that it should be Les-toh. I wouldn't mind one of these shirts. I probably wont buy one, but if someone bought me one I'd wear it.
MajorDanby Posted 2 July 2014 Posted 2 July 2014 I may get mine from here: http://www.vistaprint.co.uk/t-shirts.aspx?mk=customised+t-shirts&ad=e&crtv=44217431346&psite=mkwid%7c0XLC7nf5&device=c&GP=7%2f2%2f2014+11%3a25%3a55+AM&GPS=3224027894&GNF=0 For 9 quid less and with the proper pronunciation of Les-ter. Actually I'm not that sad.
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