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I contacted the housing first (to try a con) err Mr - with my age and disability will the housing remove my hedge and put a small fence up instead > NO! you have to pay for that yourself, after getting permission from us - ha! keep on cutting

Chweaper, and good exercise.

your southern quizonly read 1 post and copied it to a email, so I can write my answers next to them

Sounds good. Baron Grim was fussing at Icy North that his quiz was too English, and BG only spoke Texas, so I thought i'd give 'em a laugh with Southernisms.

Elektra says it's going to go down to 34 tonight. We'll have to switch from a'c to heat.

as long as you stay warm


we have more variations of Yorkshire lingo, than any other county have of theirsI could go 15 mile to one town and not understand the "old timers"

And you know, that's been going on for ages.

I studied Old English, you know, and Middle English, and there's a story from, oh, about 900 or so, where some people from up in Yorkshire went down to Kent by boat. And they had an awful time understanding anybody down there.

tha cud be raitit's a bloody big world we have to teach

The word they had trouble with back then was 'eggs'.

One place said 'egges', and one said 'eyren' - which is more like the German word, Eier.

Now, my mom used to tease my dad, because they spoke two different dialects. And my dad said, 'aiggs', just like a Scotsman. All his people did. And my mom would laugh at him.

And he'd said, 'At least I don't say 'cohner' for 'corner'.' Which seh did.

I say "put my coit on" and mam will pull me up and say IT'S coat! I reply - it was good enough for my granddad, then it's good enough for me

That's it. Lots of things the old folks used to say.

My grandparents were funny sometimes.

When we were kids, we were at the farm, and my grandmother sat down to breakfast.She took out her teeth, and put them on a napkin.

My grandfather roared, 'Mur'emma! Put yore teeth in! We have comp'ny.'

My grandmother, calmly, 'I will not. Those mail-order teeth don't fit right. They hurt.'



And then, of course, she poured her coffee into the saucer, picked it up, and blew on it...

Quite normal behaviour for the Appalachians.

tea slurping from the saucerwas a favourite here as well by many

http://www.wikihow.com/Speak-With-a-Yorkshire-Accent

just found this, not tried it, just looked at it

Aha! Different drink, same custom.

In fact, there was a joke that everybody said, 'come in and sit down. I've got a cup of coffee for you, already blowed and sassered.' )=saucered.)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maureenmitchell/yorkshire/dialect_words.htm

there might be some that's close to your use of local slang

Speaking of foodstuffs, I'm off to eat.

Take it easy, and don't clip hedges in your sleep.

hedge will be happy for at least 6 months and tough if it ain't

today! I again


it WAS easy to say/write "£103" for a windows 7 disc, but now I've got to go put THAT on to clear my credit card

I was brave

Sure you are! DG is working hard on his lessons which those West Coast dummies FINALLY got back to him on. So please excuse him tonight.

Did you get to drive your son's car yet? Will he let you? Do you have a liscense anymore?