dialect

[spook]

being born on the borders of scotland and northumberland, like anyone else, where ever you come from you pick up a local accent.

but the bone of contention in my household is a certain word meaning home, HYEM.

i know this word is quite commonly used in scotland but is pronounced phoneticaly HEY-EM.

but where i hail from down south a bit, to a famous old mining area, as a child i used to pronuce it, as did others i knew and my father as YEM.

am i being to course in my accent or what?

the ex-ball 'n chain claimed their is no such pronounciation of the word , yet i have grown up with it all my life.

must i learn to speak with a mouth full of marbles or seek the services of good old henry higgins??

[spk]

If your happy say it however the hell you like ! You just might need to translate sometimes !

[Quizmonster]

Ham, hoom, whom, whome,hame, hayme, heam, heame, haim and haam are all words which have been variants of 'home', based on the Old English 'ham'. As it happens, the Danish word is 'hjem' which would - I imagine - be pronounced 'hyem'...pretty close to your 'yem'.
You go on pronouncing it just as you always have!

[aka pixi]

i agree with quizmonster. I lived in a small town in durham for a while years ago and the local people would say 'Im away yem' which meant Im going home. Where i live in yorkshire we say ho-em meaning home.

[aka pixi]

sorry but i always seem to miss something out of my replies. I meant I agreed with quizmonster about carrying on saying the word as you always have :)

[dancecaller]

Whenyou leave yem do you shut the yat?

[garfunkeland]

i come from newcastle and use the word yem meaning home alot i would say it was a geordie word used quite often there