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In Dudley they drink a Kipper tie
two sugars please - They can't even pronounce the name Dudley properly 'Doodlay'.

That is correct, Sir.

As a matter of interest, when we were discussing Standard English in Skoob's 'The Word Is Have Not Of' thread the other day, I was telling you all about a book by Professor John Honey, in which he talks about dialects, and he mentions the Black Country dialect spoken by those people in Dudley, as well as in Wolverhampton.

He cites a very peculair book he has come across, a Black Country Bible, which provides a localised version of Genesis. Get ready:

"Ter start evvrything off, God med the wairld. Mind yo', 'e cudn't see ennythin' cuz it wuz all dark, soo 'e sed, 'let's a' sum loit', and the loit cum, an 'e wor arf plaised wiy it..."

Of course, to get the full impact of the this, you have to recreate the right conditions, and a Dudley person is recommended to do the speaking parts. If you don't know one, go to www.thickaspigshit.com, and order one there. It will be well worth whatever you pay.

Hi Monkey

It is incredible almost that the regional accents even in a single area vary so distinctly that one can in some cases tell which part of a small town someone comes from.

In Switzerland it gets so bad that the inhabitants of some villages in the German-speaking part can't uderstand each other.

What was Honey's book called?

I come from the Boro. I know nossing.

That wouldn't be Middlesborough by any chance - you know the one whose tourist office pays you to drop their name here and there?

Which Middlesbrough? Oh you mean THAT Middlesbrough? I wondered which Middlesbrough you meant for a minute. There are Middlesbroughs all over the world, but the Middlesbrough I come from is the Middlesbrough in N.E. England. The Middlesbrough whose football team got relegated last season. The Middlesrough next to Thornaby.

Scratch Thornaby...I get nowt for mentioning that town.


By the way, I'm sending a truckload of 'u' s over the border since the Americans appear to run out of them...

Operation vowel storm is GO!

I'm on my way bt mst remove some u's from some of the stff I write so that I have enogh to pt in a hge box so as not to waste space. sally I woldn't bother bt I get tired of reading stff withot 'u's.

Regards
Lady G..

Bgger have yo already stolen my 's?

I've kept a few back bt they're in a box in the airing cpboard. Ssh! For emergencies only yo nderstan?

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Quote: Skoob1999

I hate it when people say 'passed away' or 'passed on.'

They fucking died. They're dead.

Get over it!

Regards

Skoob.

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This beautifus miniperson never fail make me laugh.

I love him with all my heart.....elbow....kidney...


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throkus. I am for ever saying it.

Why, I dont know.

Throkus is actually a nice sounding word. It could be used as a nice word or a nasty word.

I found a reference to it being a 'name'...Hmm!

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Quote: Lynton

What was Honey's book called?

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John Honey: Language is Power: The Story of Standard English and its Enemies.


Really interesting.

Thanks mate - time to turn in I reckon. Night all

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Monkey Woods says: I know what you mean. Even though it is the correct biological term for the organ, it seems that, aside from 'confront', vagina is one of those words that few amongst us would want to hear in the middle of the Six O'Clock News.

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And then this morning I click onto the BBC News website, and on the front page there is this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10691353

Whatever next?

Oh great!

That'll get her thinking when she looks at the web history.


"You have to see this dress I've bought on Ebay..................



What's this??"

You need your own computer, Ferg.




And, besides, she should have plenty of dresses by now. Tell her to wear what she's got.

Very interesting...but also a tad cruel...I mean to have given some women the placebos...and then they became infected when the people running the 'trial' could have saved them.


That's my take on it anyway.

Lady G.

Yep and it has been done before in the Tuskegee experiement

No idea whether RSA has a medical ethics requirement for such work but it ought to - you are completely right LG.

Somethng SHOULD be done!

Is there a place to comment on stories on the BBC?

Probably...I haven't looked.