Dialect part 3

Apr 04, 2008 12:23

Okay, here is a UK version of the dialect meme, with questions added by Bunn, Steepholm, Muuranker, Philmophlegm, Segh and Amalion. Anyone who feels like doing it is free to add extra questions ( Read more... )

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bunn April 4 2008, 13:48:14 UTC
South Wales - > North Devon - > Oxford - > Chester -> Cornwall ( ... )

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bunn April 4 2008, 13:50:37 UTC
I forgot to mention that a Visitor (or Grokel) can also be a foreigner, although a foreigner is not always a Visitor.

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bunn April 4 2008, 13:54:44 UTC
A foreigner doesn't actually come from abroad. Foreign starts at a radius of about 60 miles, I reckon.

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ladyofastolat April 4 2008, 13:59:29 UTC
Whereas here, foreign is anything off the island. Southampton or Timbuktu, it's all the same to the true Oisle o' Woigh'a

Is that foreigner, or furriner?

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bunn April 4 2008, 14:01:11 UTC
I think it would be pronounced vurriner. As in 'She'm a vurriner, all the way from That London'.

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ladyofastolat April 4 2008, 14:01:55 UTC
re. terms of endearment: I think shopkeepers in Winchcombe would say "love", but quite a few on the island say "my love", which took me aback at first. The addition of the "my" suddenly made it seem rather more personal.

(For non-British people who find this very odd, there's nothing harrassmenty about it. It's totally unisex - used as much by women to women as by men to women. Whether men would say it to men, though, I don't know.)

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bunn April 4 2008, 14:03:16 UTC
I remember a male icecream seller in South Wales calling philmophlegm 'flower' once. pp went an amazing shade of beetroot red.

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ladyofastolat April 4 2008, 14:05:11 UTC
LOL! Oh to have been there...!

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