speech patterns part 2
as is typical across a huge portion of London ( and like. other parts of England too , Manchester , Leeds , the majority of Essex ) Eggsy has a very specific accent and vernacular. there are certain aspects of Eggsy’s speech that I can’t implement in my writing unless ... I want it to be illegible !
h - dropping. “ have ” becomes “ ‘ave ” , “ him ” becomes “ ‘im ”. not necessarily the case with all h - words , as it’s somewhat dependent on the ‘strength’ of the h letter in the word.
dipthongs. in particular with Ls , where the “ all ” sound turns instead into an “ aw ” sound after a vowel --- British aw , similar to the “ ore ” sound in more , but less defined . so “ alright ” becomes “ awright ” , “ call ” sounds like “ caw ” etc.
cluster reduction. especially with certain t - sounds coming across more like ch - sounds . for example , “ tuesday ” sounding like “ chooseday ” , “ tune ” sounding like “ choon ”
past - tense regularisation. as clarification , the past tense “ was ” being used across all pronouns. so I was , you was , we was , they was.*
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( part one here )
