h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I call my old primary school teachers by their first names, I only live 100 yds awar, so I see them fairly often

TB.. I had a teacher who's husband worked with my dad on the police.. I still called her Miss D.. and him Uncle Eric



Paul!!

I was also called Mary because our neighbour had a pet sheep (larry) who kept trying to follow us to school... I had to take him home 3 times before the men in the animals food factory would tie him up for me!!

I want a pet pig

Where would you keep it?

i dontk now i would buy a field or something

We were lucky, where we used to live had a huge garden and an old orchard at the back.. we were the only kids down there.. it was private property..

We lived in a house down by the Manchester Ship Canal.. and had a great time down there!

doth thou have a manchunian accent then mary?

Nay lad.. thy Father and thy Mother's families all moved down from theeere.. and ended oooop wher't Shropshire Union finished!!

yorkshire accent?

Cut thee tongue out of thy mouth... You were't closer wi' Mancunian..

Mums parents came from Wigan and Chorley..

Dads originally came from Rochdale.. moving to mid Cheshire with work on the Shropshire Union Canal..

Now a history lesson.. Where does the Shropshire Union begin.. and where does it end?.. Both places share a name..

Im from the best country in the world all i hear is boring english place one boring english place two Im afraid my accent doesnt fit my background, im a middle class person from Angus but i sound like ive got a distinctly different accent, more clear less slang, people often mistake me as being from edinburgh

Angus? Isn't the accent very soft there?

landed in hootoo soap

yes but only if you dont let yourself become prey to the evils of slang and dundonian- ness- Dundonian excerpt one: Eh Ken Mo el hev a peh plez and um ye so what was eh seyin leke pure she wuz lek eh an eh was like eh pure eh.

would anyone like a translation i live within a mile of these people and they dont speak one word of english

*giggles*

Years ago I worked with a woman from Glasgow, and everyone had problems with her accent, but eventually we understood her. But we once received phone call from the Tax Office in Cumbernauld!.. None of us could understand a word this woman was saying.. were we glad when our workmate turned up!! She didn't half have a chinwag too!

hmm glasgow its very similar to dudonian , more of a nasal twang-

flippin' 'eck they talk fast!