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

Eeeee.. na then, lass!

Doest tha' knaaws 'thou' is used across the border in Lancashire, too?

A lot of mum's cousins talk like that

Well, you know, as a Yorkshire lass I'm hardly likely to converse with people from... *gasp* t'other side.

I'll let you into a secret, they've opened the border at the top of the Pennines and they've been sneaking through for years

I can see I'm going to have to come back and sort the place out!

re 35: i was actually thinking the very same, Br queen

i was once told that french bureaucrats and diplomats and such people even today use a formal language amongst them that the rest of us abandoned in the 15th century - like "your humble servant" and stuff like that

but i haven't consorted with people like that since we sank a french convoy in 1473

so what would i know?

Somewhere I had a list with some more nice words for some variation in my name tag, unfortunately I don't know where it is.
Oh, thought of something...

another good one, tav

keep 'em coming!

(sitting on a 'plüschgepolsterte sitzgelegenheit')

Let me guess, Tav - would that be a cow?

yes, a cow

And one before the stupid spelling reform!

I in fact wasn't quite sure about the right spelling.

It's not written Ku now, is it?

No, it's written "rau" instead of "rauh" - which is stupid because the word no longer looks "rough" at all!

IIRC, the fairy tale was always named 'Allerleirau', so it's not really illogical to go back to 'rau'.

we should all learn from the estonians. they pronounce every letter used and so never use a letter that is not meant to be pronounced

as long as we don't have to learn from the French (or the English... ) who put in extra unpronounced letters just for the hell of it.

Nope, the fairy tale has always been "Allerleirauh"... see here, for example: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=5&xid=969&kapitel=12&cHash=b2042df08b2#gb_found

Oh well, my memory isn't what it used too be, which is why I said IIRC.

there is an old danish family named Høst. Its members always have problems when they come to france since 'h' is not pronounced, 'ø' does not exist in the french alphabet and - well, you do the math