Language differences

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Originally Posted by Jeannie acton

when anyone came over from Seattle to the UK office I often had to walk round with the guys and, for want of a better word 'interpret' the conversation.. For instance if it looks like it is going to rain, locally that would be expressed as - it's black over our Bills mothers. Honest. I am not making this up. Another thing that springs to mind as typically local to here was when I heard some one say 'mek it go backards' when trying to tell a drive r to reverse his car. Don't you just love the thing that make us all just that little bit different? I hope I have not bored your eyes shut here. I am not known as the mouth from the south for nothing you know! Lol

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Local/regional dialects are even more fun aren't they? My Mum came from Fife and had some real humdingers! I'm a 'posh' southerner myself and speak with a 'BBC' accent (all because I went to elocution as a child to get rid of a stutter!)

Hi Jane, my grandma was scots and she lived with us on and off. My friends thought she was a foreigner because of her accent and dialect. Lol. Your post has just reminded me that we used to have elocution lessons in school! I an clearly remember having to hold my hand in front of my mouth as repeating K P and T over and over to feel the air hitting the palm of your hand when pronounced correctly. I would like to say happy days but they were not. Lol