Warm boot recommendations please

[Looney]

 

I remember as a teenager hearing a lady ask for a 'plarster' from the first aid kit and I fell about laughing. I'd never heard a southern accent before and genuinely thought she was putting it on! My poor mother was so embarrassed by me!

 

 

My OH's gran insists on "correcting" me on saying bath and laugh etc with short vowels instead of barth and larrf His grandad once enquired whether I felt my regional accent had held me back in my career progression ! I'll let him off he was nearly 90!

[Guest]

Here in Surrey, my DD3 had a teacher who insisted all his class said 'bath', not 'barth'. I don't know if he thought it would help with spelling, but he appeared to be telling his pupils that their colloquial pronunciation was wrong. How can the Queen's English be wrong?

[Jules.]

Someone I know moved to Dover at the age of 5 after living in Bradford all her life. She didn't have a clue what everyone was on about in PE at school when they were asked to put on their plimsols.... she only knew them as we do up North as "pumps".

[theherd123]

I remember when i first started teaching and i had just about got used to the Birmingham accent when a new boy joined the class who was from Bristol.

He came to my desk and asked for a rubber but for the life of me i couldnt understand what he was saying after asking him to repeat it several times and asking other pupils what he was saying he walked away

 

Looking back it was quite funny but the poor boy must have wondered who he had ended up with as his teacher!

[One Man Banned]

Someone I know moved to Dover at the age of 5 after living in Bradford all her life. She didn't have a clue what everyone was on about in PE at school when they were asked to put on their plimsols.... she only knew them as we do up North as "pumps".

 

Well I'd be stumped

 

We had "daps"

 

 

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[Cate in NZ]

Someone I know moved to Dover at the age of 5 after living in Bradford all her life. She didn't have a clue what everyone was on about in PE at school when they were asked to put on their plimsols.... she only knew them as we do up North as "pumps".

 

Well I'd be stumped

 

We had "daps"

 

 

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I remember daps I wore daps when I lived in Wales, but the exact same shoes were pumps when I lived in the north west. Good job I didn't go to school down here in the south or else I could have ended up thoroughly mixed up about my PE footwear

[Egluntyne]

I call them pumps. My welsh friend calls them daps!

[One Man Banned]

You lived in Wales too....hmnn interesting.

 

So were "daps" a Welsh thing....

 

 

 

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[Lesley]

We call them pumps here as well.

[Guest]

We call them rubbers!

[Egluntyne]

We call them rubbers!

 

A word to the wise Chookie!

 

Never ask for a pair in a shoe shop in New York.

[Guest]

 

Dare I ask why?

 

Edited to add: Scrub that request - I just realised...

[Egluntyne]

 

Dare I ask why?

 

Edited to add: Scrub that request - I just realised...

 

A friend of mine who was working in NY for a year wanted some erasers and caused great mirth in the store when she asked the question.

 

They look forward to the English coming in apparently!

[Lesley]

..and don't ask for Jiffy Bags in the US either - padded envelopes are what you need....

[The Dogmother]

Lesley, that just reminded me - do you remember those ghastly t shirts in the advertising campaign for Jiffy 'you-know-whats'?

[Lesley]

erm...... no

[The Dogmother]

I'll PM you!

[Looney]

I'm intrigued....

 

 

 

 

 

.....although I probably don't really want to know what you are talking about

[Lesley]

No, you don't

[Helly Welly]

I always used to sat parth and barth. Its only since going to college in Doncaster and then living in Leicestershire that i've started to rponounce them weith short vowels. Recently though, the old pronounciation has been creeping back but its so mixed up, no-one can tell where i come from by my accent.

 

I was born in Hemel Hempstead and lived in Hertfordshire until the age of 18

[buffie]

I'll PM you!

 

PM me, I want to know too....Please

 

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