Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
We pretend to disagree to confuse the
Laughing at stupid foreigners.
- Thread starter Globalti
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Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
Learn it secretly and find out what they're saying!
You are joking ? its taken my whole life trying to master english !
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Wonder if SNP-led local authorities will bring in the restrictive employment practice that you have to learn Gaelic to get a job in Scottish local authorities in the same way that Plaid Cymru forces people to learn Welsh to get work from their County Councils... not bitter, not bitter at all.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Oh, Hayz-bruh - silly me...that makes a lot more sense. <headslap smiley>
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
So glad we've cleared that up
I've always heard Americans pronounce it as Des (as in short for Desmond) and Moines to rhyme with 'loins'...
Incidentally, I believe Bill Bryson is from there...
SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
A telephone conversation between a 3 network dude & I over some annoyance at yet again having no signal went a little like this -
Indian 3 guy "and what is your first name Mr Seeeedon" (he got that wrong too).
Me "Steven, with a V".
3 guy "O.k Mr Withavee"
Indian 3 guy "and what is your first name Mr Seeeedon" (he got that wrong too).
Me "Steven, with a V".
3 guy "O.k Mr Withavee"
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winjim
Smash the cistern
Writing "Slough-it" doesn't help. Are you pronouncing it slough, as in a snake shedding its skin, or Slough, as in the crap town in Berkshire?Nearer to home ... I got no help after asking the way to Barn-olds-wick (Bar-lick) or Slaith-waite (Slough-it), just blank looks. (I'm sure that the locals are well used to it, and just pretend that they don't have a clue where you are talking about!
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
Another one that's on my list
Brother in law speaks it quite well - I can ask for beer, and say thank you, so I feel I've covered the basics, at least 
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
It's not just 'the crap town in Berkshire' it's the crap town in Berkshire.
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Is that where you live? 
Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
I once overheard a fat loudmouth cockney woman trying to buy a tin of baked beans in a campsite shop in Spain. "Biked beans!" she demanded, with a certain lack of elegance. The shop girl tried her best, and helpfully profered up a tin of haricot beans. "Not 'em, biked beans!", she said, a little loader. The girl tried offering some cannelini beans, with the same response, just a bit louder still. Almost unbelievably, the helpful shopgirl seemed to have an inexhaustable supply of different tinned bean variants. Flageolets, string beans, etc, etc, and kept offering them up helpfully and politely. By now the cockney woman was getting really wound up and even ruder. "NO! I don't bladdy believe this! I said biked beans, not 'em" she continued, expecting that surely everyone would sell Heinz beans in tomato ketchup. It was all getting remarkably like the Monty Python cheese shop sketch, and I couldn't wait to see if they had any mung beans, soya beans or edamames. Sadly I got served by the other assistant before they got that far into the sketch and I never found out how it finished. at the checkout I pretended not to be British.
