I want a Cab, innit

[BA to the Stars]

Quote:

The company has since apologised, offered her a refund and suggested she should perhaps speak a bit clearer on the phone in future.

Mr Whittle added: 'We don't know if she made it to the airport but she did ask our driver if he could give her a lift.'


Why the **** should the company apologise. Make the silly girl pay the £180 and that will teach her to speak properly. (Just like us in Yorkshire)

[Bagpuss]

I did love that Nissan advert where the japanese chap translated from Geordie to English.

Geordie is a traditional accent though, a dialect. Estuary English is sweeping through a large swathe of England to some extent. It's replacing the old dialects. Unlike the old , it's not something to be embraced, it's getting to a situation where many newly arrived poles can speak better English.

[Board Game Geek]

^ wot e sayz

[gingerjedi]

Most under people under 30 darn sarf seem to speak Estuary English, which seems to be a combination of Mockney, Ali G, and Valley Girl.

I don't know what this once great country is coming to!

I wish people wouldn't lump the whole of the south together when they really mean the south east, here in the south west we're just as perplexed as you are.

[sasguru]

I speek the Kweenz Inglish, innit? Boyakasha!

[Bagpuss]

I wish people wouldn't lump the whole of the south together when they really mean the south east, here in the south west we're just as perplexed as you are.

I know, I lived in the south west for a while hence the fondness for sailors!

[KathyWoolfe]

I wish people wouldn't lump the whole of the south together when they really mean the south east, here in the south west we're just as perplexed as you are.

Well it's only fair, you lump the whole of the North together when you mean just anywhere north of Watford.

[ctdctd]

Well it's only fair, you lump the whole of the North together when you mean just anywhere north of Watford.

the Thames

[KathyWoolfe]

the Thames

Southampton

[snaw]

Southampton

Australia.