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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OMG, if you actually talk like this, D. I don’t think I could understand you!
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.
Heheh, spot-on.
ROFL @ Craig. I don’t talk like that though
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.