There are few staff in this office who came from the same rice bowl state..some from the northern part and some from southern..I realised that we were separated by different geographical area..Most from northern have a different accent and the southern counterpart are much influenced by Penang accent...
We always have breakfast at this stall serving Northern style 'Lempeng'...some said that we Kedahan call it 'lempiang'...but as I remember we just called it 'pek nga'...the name simply derived from the method of preparing it, prepare the mixture and spread it on a hot pan..'tempek dalam belanga...so its famous name is 'pek nga'...how simple we make it sound...
There are other words that I seldom use now..especially after married to Penangite..their's is different with Indian lenggok...
I wonder how my kids will be like going back to Alor Setar and hearing this...'jangan pi main situ..lecah..' (lecah -puddle)
or..'boleh sekilo'...'boleh' in this sentence is not meant to be 'yes'..but more of ' i got 1 kilo of...'
Some words used by Kedahan has been simplified...so the way we speak are much easier..lets take these words for example :-
pergi = pi
mari = mai
sekejap lagi = sat gi
kenapa begitu ? = awat macam tu ? or awat lagu tu ?...lagu here is not any song..!!
mereka = depa ( i wonder how we got this...sapa bagi ganti nama diri ni..?)
kau = hang (it might sound harsh for some people from Key El)
I noticed some people from Langgar speak differently with high note...
And those from Baling and Sik sounds like orang Siam..because they are just at the border..
And those from Changloon..hmm..they too sometimes sound like Siamese to me, but a bit meleret just like those from Perlis...
Some people said that we they way talk is harsh...kasaq..but we are not being rude..it is just the sound because we did not pronounces 'a' as 'e'..more to 'are'...for instance = muka, Kl said 'mu-ke' but we said 'mu-ka''..
But we are proud of what we are..kami bukan kahaq...kami memang macam ni..tapi jangan cari pasai..nanti hampa mai Aloq Setaq, kepala hampa kami putaq......
ok.. till then
