Posted on 07/04/2011 11:18:06 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Don’t worry about that mate, i’m born and bred here and I can’t understand a word that mad lot north of the wall say!
I don’t think France even has any dentists!
LOL!
There's a reason Hadrian built that wall, ya know ;-)
My dad and grandad would use the phrase “on the box” to refer to being on the sick, but that’s the only one of those I recognise.
In the black country we sometimes used to refer to it as "spotted dog".
Where is the black country? Is this as opposed to the white country?
That’s racist!
The area was very much the cradle of the industrial revolution, particularly heavy industry - manufacturing, metal bashing, engineering - later auto construction. Coventry was like a British Detroit - all the main British auto manufacturers - Rolls Royce, Austin, Triumph, BSA, Morris, MG, Leyland and so on were based there.
Anyway, in the very early days all that industry meant steam power generated by firing coal. Lots and lots of it. Result: the sky would literally turn black from all the smoke and pollution - hence "black country". It's not an exageration either - the lack of sunlight caused a lot of problems - rickets was notoriously prevalent amongst children.
chimley instead of chimney
chrystual instead of crystal
furni tour instead of furniture
I think National TV over the past two generations has helped to homogenize our pronunciation across the country.
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