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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 5:08 am
by StevieG
master
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 10:35 am
by Iolanthe
Sorus wrote:tease
Iolanthe wrote:
I know a joke about "E"
A man commissioned a gravestone for his wife. When he went to see the finished article he said to the stonemason that he had missed out the "E". The gravestone said "She Was Thin". The stonemason said he would correct it and when the man went back it said "E She was Thin".
Perhaps you have to come from the north of England to understand that one!
I'm guessing it should have been 'She Was Thine' and the second version has something to do with an accent. Am I close?
stare
Yes, very, Sorus. Up north the sound like "ee" precedes lots of statements "ee by gum lad", or it did, something like the "arr" in "arr Jim lad" (Treasure Island), only that is more the south west of England, Cornwall/Devon. If you can see a clip from "Last of the Summer Wine" from the BBC you can listen to some very good Yorkshire accents. Probably some on U tube.
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 11:32 am
by JIkj fjds j
Iolathe, do you know that 'e ba gum' spelt backwords is 'Mugabe'. I'm sure this doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things, still I find this oddly unsettling.
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 11:48 am
by Iolanthe
Gosh, never noticed that. Perhaps I should have quoted "On Ilkley Moor b'a tat" (translates on Ilkley Moor without a hat! - for our US friends).
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 3:22 pm
by deer of the dawn
treed
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 10:22 pm
by Iolanthe
Defer
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 5:39 pm
by Sorus
reeds
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 6:56 pm
by deer of the dawn
meres
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 8:36 pm
by Sorus
mares
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:26 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
smears
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 3:04 pm
by deer of the dawn
reams
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 5:30 pm
by Sorus
dreams
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 9:08 pm
by deer of the dawn
drams
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:18 am
by Linna Heartbooger
dramas
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 1:10 am
by Sorus
alarms
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 2:30 pm
by deer of the dawn
asnarl
Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 8:34 pm
by Iolanthe
annals
Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 7:45 pm
by deer of the dawn
anneal
Posted: Sat May 07, 2016 10:24 pm
by Iolanthe
annual
Posted: Mon May 09, 2016 10:49 am
by deer of the dawn
lauan