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 A GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION IN SOUTH AFRICA

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A GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION IN SOUTH AFRICA



Beck - not the front

Beds - doves, vultures, etc.

Ben - to set alight

Cut - a small vehicle drawn by a donkey

Errors - districts, e.g. “Ebbon errors” (urban areas)

Feather - Cape Town is feather from Mpumalanga than Johannesburg

Guddin – area around your house, where you grow plants

Get - a hinged opening in a fence

Hair - as opposed to him

Hiss - masculine form of hairs

Itch - as in “itch and aviary pairsin”

Kennel - Army officer

Len - to acquire knowledge

Pee-Pull - Die Mense / people

Phlegm - the hot part at the end of a candle

Piss - symbolised by white doves

Suffa-Ring - as in “the pee-pull are suffa-ring”

Parrot Teksi - not a mamba of the teksi assoseshen

Toks - Negotiations

Weaner – as in “the weaner takes all”

Wekkas - they do the wek

Weld - The Earth
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lol
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PostSubject: Re: A GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION IN SOUTH AFRICA   A GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION IN SOUTH AFRICA EmptyMon Jul 14, 2008 10:42 am

I think only a South African would really appreciate this. It’s like cockney but it’s the assent and the direct translation from one language into another. We hear it as being normal but if we stop and think about it is funny.

I am wearing a pair of jean pants wiff shoes and blou sockis


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i may be english.......but i get it lol
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