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A couple of weeks ago I was asked by a Scotsman where North of the Border I hailed from.
He was shocked when I said I only visit occasionally, he said that he could have sworn that he detected a lilt of an accent, as if I'd been away for many years but it was still there.
And while in a skiing class this year a French woman asked me if I went to a 'centre of excellence' for my accent, a Berlitz examiner had to explain the concept of RP to the group (in French - I didn't know where to start..)
I do get a fair share of comments about my accent considering I don't think I've got one...
That is definitely not northern oik, but southern-shandy-drinking-poof.
Carry on.
[S-S-D-P]
Oh Ai saay wot thats a little harsh my man wot wot.
Can one not enter into some banter on ones prefered internet discussion forum thingy with out being insulted by the riff-raff.
I believe Sir that you are somewhat of a cad and a bounder! One has never in all ones life even considered drinking anything as positively proletarian as a "shandy" and one must deny most wholeheartedly that one is a poof (that episode with Sebastian in Woking was really blown out of proportion in a most disagreeable way).
I would hope Sir that you would withdraw your remark immediatly.
[/S-S-D-P]
A couple of weeks ago I was asked by a Scotsman where North of the Border I hailed from.
He was shocked when I said I only visit occasionally, he said that he could have sworn that he detected a lilt of an accent, as if I'd been away for many years but it was still there.
A couple of weeks ago I was asked by a Scotsman where North of the Border I hailed from.
He was shocked when I said I only visit occasionally, he said that he could have sworn that he detected a lilt of an accent, as if I'd been away for many years but it was still there.
I couldn't hear it myself.. .
And while in a skiing class this year a French woman asked me if I went to a 'centre of excellence' for my accent, a Berlitz examiner had to explain the concept of RP to the group (in French - I didn't know where to start..)
I do get a fair share of comments about my accent considering I don't think I've got one...
<yorkshire>
Sack cloth? Luxury! When I were a nipper we had to cuddle a rock.
</yorkshire>
When I was seven I plucked up the courage to ask my Mum why I didn't have (and had never had) a Teddy
"Boys don't need one."
"All my friends have one."
"Harrumph."
A few days later I had a knitted Snoopy, made by my Mum.
"Consider yourself lucky. When I was a girl I asked my step mother for a dolly. I was given a wooden spoon and a rag of cloth to tie round it for a frock. That was my dolly until my step mother saw I had drawn a face on it. That got my arse rattled." Such was life in a Yorkshire mill town in the 1930s.
I cannot remember what happened to my knitted Snoopy. I think my big bruvvas took the piss, and so I rejected it.
[Northern Oik]
'kin laffin! 'kin laffin! You lucky lucky b'stard!
wen I were a lad we never 'ad a 'kin larf!
I 'member wen our kid tried it... 'kin dad beat 'im t' wi'in an inch a 'is 'kin life wi' a 'kin pavin' 'in stone -tha' 'kin taught 'im!
'kin never di' tha' agin!
[/Northern Oik]
An' you tell tha' to kids today, an' they won' believe ya.
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