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"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Sat, 02 Nov 2019 01:37:32 -0000, Fredxx wrote:

On 01/11/2019 22:40:56, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:03:07 +0100, whisky-dave

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On Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:45:26 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey
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On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:01:56 +0100, whisky-dave
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On Wednesday, 9 October 2019 01:07:28 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey
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Things tend to be passed on, like accents.

No accents are learnt, or rather can be learnt, which is how
impersonators work.

Passed on during learning to speak.

or later, peoples accents can change through out a persons life.

Mine didn't, mainly because I have **** all accent and I find almost
every accent pointless.

It always amazes me that with so many people moving around, an
accent still remains in a certain city.

To a certain area yes,

I guess it's because even if 10% of people move between Glasgow to
Edinburgh, both cities still contain 90% of the original tongue,
so
that gets passed to the movers.

It's also considered an identity as you say you;d expect peole in
scotland to have scottish accents, but if you came to London few
will
have what is known to be a London accent.

That's because most of London is Muslims. Throw them off the cliffs
of
Dover!

Mind you, I don't pick up accents. I speak the way I spoke when I
learned it as a young child. I don't change accent when I speak
to
different people, but some seem to change within 10 minutes!

Yes. I knew a sweish girl that spend a year at uni in birmingham
she
came to London with a brummy accent !
I know French people that have lived in London 20+ years and they
still sound French yet another after being here 7 years isn't
recongnised as being French from his accent, even passport control
questioned him when he came back from France.

Agreed, everyone is different.

but yuo'l notice that English speaking canadian sound a bit
scottish, they say abooot rather than about.

That's not Scottish, they also they things like howse. They just
carefully pronounce all the vowels.

What do you think the part of canada is called Nova Scotia for
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Nova Scotia" means "New Scotland" in Latin and is the recognized
English-language name for the province. In both French and Scottish
Gaelic, the province is directly translated as "New Scotland"
(French:
Nouvelle-Écosse. Gaelic: Alba Nuadh).
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Why on earth would anyone want to make another Scotland?

If you're representative of Scotland there must be a myriad of
reasons.

So you don't know then.

There's a host of new whatevers all over the world.
Even a New Britain and New England.

I havent noticed a New Wales but we do have a
New South Wales, presumably named by some bigot.

I've assumed that its likely a combination of nostalgia and
a lack of imagination tho I spose part of it must just be
that most of the obvious names have already been used
somewhere and so its easier to jus have new in front of it.

Even you should have noticed New York.

Not everyone has primitive savages with names
like Woolloomooloo that they can steal the name
from. Or stupid royals and close they can suck up
to by calling the place after them.

It can't be that hard to come up with a new word to name a place. If in
doubt, look around you, name it after the scenery.

There are plenty like that, but the only 'scenery' around
here is the hill at the back of town and some brilliantly
imaginative fella called it Scenic Hill.

Have fun coming up with a useful name for where your hovel is.
PHuckers :Pit doesn't quite cut it for some reason.

My street is named after some saint or other.

At one time most of ours were named after those killed in WW1 and WW2,
When they ran out of those, they are named after the better known locals.
Some of the streets in what you lot call estates are named after their kids.

We do have one named after a saint, Ignatius.
Dunno why that one, likely given its in an
estate too, the developer is a god bother.

At least it's unique.

Unlikely.

Oh wait,

Too late.

there are five streets with the same name in the county (that's within 6
miles of me).

Yeah, like I said, hard to have a unique name.

Still think they missed a real opportunity with yours,
PHucket Pit has quite a ring to it and is likely unique.

Just make a word up, at least people wouldn't get the wrong street when
trying to deliver things to me.

Trouble is no one could spell it. Woolloomooloo is a
problem, even I cant spell it and have to get the spelling
checker to fix it. It doze bizarrely, So much for your claim
that computers are useless compared with humans.