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"Cathy F." wrote in message
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"Cathy F." wrote in message
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If you get to the U.K. - go everywhere you can! Really diverse areas,
for a smallish place. ;-)

P.S. And they really *do* say "Ta", & "Thanks, ducks", & Ta, love". ;-)

Cathy


And "Thanks me duck" and "cheers luvvy" -

Yeah, until I went to the UK, I thought that was probably mostly tourist
hype. Nope. :-)

And that's in the areas where you
can understand the people ! You should try Tyneside, or Cornwall, or parts
of Liverpool and Norfolk, and the Scots ! Well even I can't understand
some of them, and I'm born and bred here ...

On the way north from Torquay was in a train carriage w/a man who was going
up to Blackpool - don't know if that's where he was from, but I just did a
lot of nodding of my head & smiling. ;-) Friendly, chatty man, but I
understood maybe 1/4 - 1/3 of what he was saying. I think why I had trouble
understanding him was that he dropped his consonants a lot.

First time I was in Edinburgh... at Waverly Station I asked for "an orange
soda" at the cafeteria. The guy behind the counter kept asking me if I
wanted it still. I had no clue what he was on about. Finally had to ask him
just what he was asking me. (Me: thinking, "Yeah, I still want it!) "Well,
do you want it still or do you want it fizzy?!", he asked. Oh!.... But I
had assumed that by using the word "soda" that he would know I wanted a
carbonated drink... guess not. Had to ask the guys at the hotel's front
desk to repeat themselves a few times, too - didn't always catch it the
first time around.

Was in Cornwall (mostly on the north coast) - no probs there. Other than
"eating weeds" - the super-narrow roads & hedgerows - when the car window
was open. g And in Yorkshire (in the York/Harrogate/Thirsk area) - same
thing. OTOH, the latter - had already read all of James Herriot's/Alf
Wight's books. ;-) And have watched lots of BBC shows on PBS here -
probably helps when listening to the various accents.

Cathy





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