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spuddevans:
Hi Ibby :wave: welcome to the forum  :mmr:


Tim

PekkaNF:
Hi,

Watchmaking is black art to me, but it is intriguing.

Funnily enogh I can't see any thick accent on your writing - what are these guys mocking about? :)

Warm welcome,
Pekka

John Swift:


 Hi Ibby ,
 
welcome , another member in the North West

my old infant school was opposite the former Lancashire Watch factory in Prescot :-

 http://history.knowsley.gov.uk/show_photo.msql?reference=PT146&search=32

I'm not into watch making but can admire the skills involved

 John

Bogstandard:
Pekka,

In just this small part of our fine fair land, we have very many local dialects, which if you have never sampled it in the flesh, there is no way you could ever even attempt to understand it.

Just 20 kms from where I live (in the Potteries, Stoke on Trent area), even I have great difficulty understanding what they are saying, even though they still class it as spoken 'English'.

This is the same all over the UK, there are many thousands of local dialects.
Over the centuries, we have been invaded by so many other countries, depending on where they came ashore, the local people incorporated part of the foreigners language into their own local spelling and pronunciation.

There are certain areas of the central and north west of the UK, that is classed the most pure version of real spoken English, purely because the invaders thought we were not worth bothering with, so never came that far inland.


Bogs

PekkaNF:
Bogs, I had that coming. Looong time ago I stayed in Chester some time. Got some time before I got used to that dialect - then one day some Scotich guys apeared on the dinner table....I could not get a damn thing!

We have same thing here, although to a little lesser decree. Least if I'm trying to figure what Benny Hill blurts out. Incidently, over in Chester, One fellow called home and we offered to leave the room (only telefones then....) he tallked to family, but none of us could any, it suposetly was Finnish, but if you don't talk Cocney, you don't get Rauma-dialect either :)

Anyway, I'll find all dialects as a positive divercity. People from UK NW seem all have that quiet pleasant sense of humor.

Pekka

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