Les-tah or Les-toh

mickyhoss

mickyhoss

The music was thud like.
Re the Leicester accent: I've always thought that words that ended in er like Leicester and Parker were pronounced Les-toh and Par-koh and words like Blaby would be Bla-beh. Les-tah sounds Cockney to me
 
I’ve always said Lest-ah, and Cit-eh. The former was probably because my Mum was a Laandaner, who lost a lot more than her greenhouse to the Luftwaffe (which explains why she ended up in God’s own Counteh).
 
Definitely Lest-ah.

Perhaps its different in different areas of town ?


I know from Markfield on wards ,the accent changes, and l was at a party years ago in Market Harborough and realised the accent is a bit Northampton -ish. South Wigston was 50% bombed out Londoners and you can still hear some older people with an accent of half Leicester and half Cockney.
 
I was brought up on Saffron lane, Eyres Monsell and South Wigston basically the Beverley Hills, Belair and Malibu of Leicester, so obviously Lestah. : ))
 
Feckit said:
If you ever lived in a council house as a kid it’s Lestoh, if you were a pampered child with a new toothbrush every year and clean underpants twice a week it’s Lestah…
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Well that test fails with me too. Hardborough, as Daggers said, plus my London connection, still looks more likely.
 
bnet said:
I was brought up on Saffron lane, Eyres Monsell and South Wigston basically the Beverley Hills, Belair and Malibu of Leicester, so obviously Lestah. : ))
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Steve Wells gets quite irate when hears or reads Les-tah
 
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