Pronunciation

[LizG]

Not necessarily pronunciation but a verse not to be recited after a few drinks is MRS PUGGY WUGGY and her square cut punt etc

[JennyMorgan]

 

3 hours ago, Polly said:

Or more formally 'Po'oer Haaaam' JM?

Us lazy old Broadlanders tend to abbreviate everything so even Polly would be Pol!

[JennyMorgan]

11 hours ago, BroadScot said:

Aye JM, so long as you had an interpreter with you!

Iain

From proper English, as it should be spook, to the incomprehensible you mean?

[Jim]

19 hours ago, Polly said:

My friend Rosemary came from a fairly posh family. Hard 'a' as in bath or path would be a hanging offence.  

As university beckoned she chose a business course at a Birmingham University. She told her mother of her plans and the balloon went up. 

'Rosemary, I forbid you to use such common pronunciation, it's 'Arseton' not 'Aston' ! ' 

That  caused some amusement in our sixth form.

If you have ever been there, then the first version of Aston is quite appropriate lol

[Polly]

Well it used to be, when Phill was doing his postgrad. for example they had a lift that was like an open boxes upward conveyor belt, called a Paternoster; to get aboard was a leap of faith apparently. However, it's amazingly glossy and smart these days.

[Vaughan]

Taken from a blacksmith's bill, long ago :

"Ay for the orse, wa'er for the orse,

A fetchin on im, a shooin on im an a bringin on im oom agin".

 

 

[Vaughan]

They say "Be you hair arly an we'll git us a good stut."

So oim now orf ter Chuch.