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English as she is spoken at home
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Unknown | Report | 19 Jul 2004 13:04 |
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My grandfather (who died before I was born) kept a picture-framer's shop in Stoke Newington. One day someone came to collect a picture which he found had not been framed to his exact specifications. He told my grandfather "You ain't been and gorn and dun it like as 'ow as wot as I said!" |
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Debi Coone | Report | 19 Jul 2004 13:25 |
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hahahahahah Gawd bless 'im aint it!!! |
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Sprack | Report | 19 Jul 2004 13:53 |
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my mum was in the land army in ww11 and picked up lots of things like that, one was "how be ee george", "well I aint so bad as I used to be but I be better than I were before I be as bad as I be now". jenny |
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Unknown | Report | 19 Jul 2004 13:58 |
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Lovely! |
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syljo | Report | 19 Jul 2004 15:32 |
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Hi, My grandmother was a real stickler for good spoken English. I never did pick up the cockney dialect, although my brother did. Sylvia |
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Lynne | Report | 19 Jul 2004 16:12 |
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Dierdre My mum's favourite, when asked what's for tea - A jump up the cuploard door and a bite off the latch!! My aunty used to say - A photograph of a bowl of soup!! Lynne |
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Philip | Report | 19 Jul 2004 16:17 |
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There's English and there's English. When I was camping one year in France, I was queuing at the counter in the campsite shop, and fell into conversation with my English neighbour. At one point I asked him which part of England he came from, to which he replied that he didn't. He was Dutch! Grovel, grovel..... Perfect diction, would never have guessed! Must brush up on my best Rotterdam accent! lol! Philip |
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Bob | Report | 19 Jul 2004 21:34 |
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A french lady visiting a friend of mine in Yorkshire was very proud of her english (which was indeed very good). One day she went to a posh bakery in Leeds and asked for a cake. "Which one?" asked the assistant. "That one" she replied - pointing "That's not a cake - that's a gateaux" Exit one confused French lady |
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Unknown | Report | 19 Jul 2004 21:46 |
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Postwar Wimbledon. Bottom of the hill-- not the posh end. My gran used to offer bread and ifit for tea. If its there you can have it and ifit isn't you can't. |
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Philip | Report | 19 Jul 2004 22:32 |
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Being from Swansea in S.Wales, we have the combination of English & Welsh.... Wenglish. If you can get hold of 'Talk Tidy' on cassette / tape or book, you're in for a laugh. But it is said about the S.Wales valleys, that " Nowhere is the whooole of the United Kingdom do they talk as bad as we do 'round 'ere". |
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