Do you say chaff or charff?

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I'm having a little debate with my friend. I say chaff and aparantly that's totally wrong when you live in posh Hampshire - I should be saying charff instead. I asked everyone on my yard and they all say charff.

So what do you say chaff or charff? Or do you call it chop instead? :D
 
Do you say chaffinch (as in the bird) or charrfinch? Do you say naff or narrff? Princess Anne could put you straight on that one (if you're old enough to remember) and there's an authority if ever there was one.Do you say caff (as in greasy spoon) or carff? There you go then.
 
Oh! this brings up memories,
with me from birmingham and a close friend from west essex, we are constantly arguing over chaff, bath, path, grass, glass, france.
All sorts, of words, and I always, always! get bullied for saying mun-ster for monster, but we say munday and muney so why not munster;) :D
 
I've lived in Hants for as long as I can remember (born in Surrey and there 'til I was 2) and I've always said chaff - I must be mixing with the wrong southerners!!

While we are talking about such things - do you say 'troff' or 'tro' when referring to the large metal containers that livestock drink out of?!

And do you have 'scons' or 'scones' with cream teas?

(I say troff and have scones...)
 
Chaff! And I'm originally from Berkshire... although I remember when my friend randomly started pronouncing it charff... I was like :confused: :D

ETA- Although it's 'barth' 'glarss' and 'sc'ones' Maybe I'm weird lol
 
Ommadawn said:
I've lived in Hants for as long as I can remember (born in Surrey and there 'til I was 2) and I've always said chaff - I must be mixing with the wrong southerners!!

While we are talking about such things - do you say 'troff' or 'tro' when referring to the large metal containers that livestock drink out of?!

And do you have 'scons' or 'scones' with cream teas?

(I say troff and have scones...)
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Hehe I didn't realise there was variations on trough I thought everyone called it troff. I think I'm going to switch to 'tro' now :D

and it's def scones :)
 
I think I used to say charf but now I normally say chaff - I've obviously been mixing with the wrong people :D but I still say starf not staff, barth not bath, tomartow not tomayto, potayto not potarto.

Lets call the whole thing off.....
 
LOL. My OH likes to take the pee out of me with his "mam, mam, noooor" ! (I am north eastern but now have a wierd 'from the NE but living in the NW via London" accent. My ansaphone message is quite amusing!!
 
Bath
Grass
Glass
Year (as opposed to yer)
I've never heard of it being called charff!!
And as I'm from Bristol everything with extra r's and a strong farmer accent :D :D

Grown up confused about scon and scone though - Mum says it one way, Dad says it the other. Both argue that theirs is the non-posh way! lol
 
THis reminds me of my friend who is from Stockton when we were at University - I'd not long known her and we were at a pub and I asked her what she wanted to drink and she said a coork - I said what? A coork? I said what? she said Coork.. this went on for awhile then suddenly I twigged and said oh you mean a coke! :D
 
ROFL!

The end of my message says "please leave a message after the tone" In my head I was saying tone in a nice southern accent but its actually plastic scouse - hilarious, really should have just done it in proper NE!!
 
Chaff, bath, grass, troff, sconn, though I did used to say scone when I first came from America 20 odd years ago but my OH at the time told me it was sconn
 
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