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18-02-2019, 01:31 PM
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Re: Dialect Test

That quiz got me around the Leeds area which is near enough.
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18-02-2019, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Pyxell ->
The 100 questions didn't take very long, though, and were rather interesting!


One of my massive hates is when sweets are called candy, and when biscuits are called cookies.
Aren't biscuits in the US the same as our scones? A weird bunch to be sure.
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18-02-2019, 01:43 PM
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Spot on for me.

Windsor, Berkshire, I may live in Dorset, but I have not picked up the accent.
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18-02-2019, 01:47 PM
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Spot on! Between Bath and Taunton.
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18-02-2019, 04:17 PM
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Nesh doesn't mean freezing. it means that someone is soft because they feel the cold.

By gum it's cold this morning. Gi' oe-er, th'art nesh.
OK. I'll tell my mate!
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18-02-2019, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Omah ->
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/fe..._dialect.shtml



It took me two years of working with nail-benders to become fluent .....

It would have been a faster process "Round the back of Rackhams"
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18-02-2019, 04:24 PM
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I wonder if it would know I was between Bath and the Kitchen
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18-02-2019, 05:01 PM
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It would have been a faster process "Round the back of Rackhams"
That's Brummigum .....

Many of my most incomprehensible colleagues were from Lower Gornal (when it was still emerging from the coal tips and slag heaps ..... :!) .....
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18-02-2019, 05:08 PM
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Pretty spot on for me.
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It had me at Middlesbrough and a bit further north, I’m, born and bred in York, never lived anywhere else....
 
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