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As dear old Winston Chruchill said 'Two nations divided by a common language' is exactly how the US and UK are. ;D
.....something else we imported to the USA where it's still alive and well AND I WANT IT BACK, please,.....is...]z[/b]Oh dear, A_M, I am going to be a real, total absolute and utter pedant here. We do not import to the USA, we export. ;D
yes, we have ill-gotten gains of courseanother thing - as we are a small country and things change fast, and you are a large one and things change slowly, the idea is that you still have people speaking the language of, or at least, the accent of, Shakespeare - Google-meister suggests they're in the Carolinas. How cool is that?"fear no more the heat o'the sun,nor the furious winter's rages.... how's that in a Carolina accent?
Words cannot describe the disappointment I felt when I discovered that the septics pronounce Basil & Oregano correctly... and we're wrong!
.....something else we imported to the USA where it's still alive and well AND I WANT IT BACK, please,.....is......''''''''the''''''''''zHad you realiz(s)ed that?My mate'n'me's gotta Save the Zed Society, 'cept that he calls it the "Save the Zee Society"... ;D
Quote from: OllieC on June 30, 2008, 10:56:51Words cannot describe the disappointment I felt when I discovered that the septics pronounce Basil & Oregano correctly... and we're wrong! I'm sorry the skeptics went septic.
Quote from: GrannieAnnie on June 30, 2008, 10:59:28Quote from: OllieC on June 30, 2008, 10:56:51Words cannot describe the disappointment I felt when I discovered that the septics pronounce Basil & Oregano correctly... and we're wrong! I'm sorry the skeptics went septic.What would a skeptic tank be useful for though? ;)
My last post was censored! Dick seems to be OK, but not the other word.we have a thing here, which of course you do too, that certain accents suggest things about the character of the speaker. London accents are untrustworthy. Scottish accents (but not Glasgow) suggest proffessionalism (they are probably a doctor). Birmingham (Ozzie Osbourne) suggest stupidity - mind you someone from Birmingham said recently that anyone hearing a Brum accent automatically has zero expectations, so that if they can string two words together, they're taken for a genius. A Liverpool accent is a good thing (if you remember the Beatles) and a bad thing otherwise (drug dealers and car thieves). Manchester is the same as Liverpool, minus the beatles and the sense of humour. A west country accent is for yokels - the leader of Britain's failed mission to Mars had a strong West Country accent, so you knew it was going to end in disaster - this man isn't a rocket scientist! He should be driving a tractor!. A Yorkshire accent is probably a good thing though it also suggests bloody-mindedness and a general bolshie attitude. My favourite accent is the Geordie (newcastle) accent. For some reason it makes women sound really sexy, and when a man speaks it, everything he says sound funny (in a good way)Have I missed offending anyone? I have no accent by the way (of course)
no i'm not prejudiced. It was meant to be funny, but with just the tiniest grain of truth. I moved to Cornwall when I was about 7, from Liverpool, and they had be doing the readings in the Methodist Chapel, because they thought I sounded posh! If that isn't the funniest thing