A VITAL GUIDE TO SABC TV PRONUNCIATION

Please note that this is not meant to condescend to any specific group of South Africans, its merely a humorous look at one of the accents 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 - implies distance – Cape Town is feather than Johannesburg

Guddin – around your house, where you grow plunts

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 - the weaner takes all

Wekkas – they do the wek

Weld – The Earth

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6 comments ↓

#1 Craig on 08.11.07 at 12:38 am

OMG, if you actually talk like this, D. I don’t think I could understand you!

#2 tom on 08.11.07 at 6:24 am

We need to “len” how to make the “wekkas” be the “weaners” because the “wekkas” do all the “wek” and seldom get to share much of the share of profits!!

Oh well I tried to make a sentence! Great list when I read your list I can here the dialect clearly.

#3 Pstonie on 08.11.07 at 10:16 am

Heheh, spot-on.

#4 Dizzy Dee on 08.12.07 at 10:28 pm

ROFL @ Craig. I don’t talk like that though ;)

#5 Daedalus on 08.13.07 at 1:09 pm

Eish… Sixpense… the wekkas she is verry lay-zee pee-pull, the wekkas sit all day and look at the beds, they blame there suffa-ring on the old rash-zeem.

#6 Principal on 11.17.08 at 12:30 pm

Great! Been wondering how many there are…you missed one:
Wee-men for women.

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