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
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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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Is that foreigner, or furriner?
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(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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