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[GretschWretch]

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This photo is of me when i was 16 the sign i am sitting under is the name of the village on the isle of Anglesey north wales my family are from Bangor not to far from there

Railway conductors must absolutely hate this stop.

 

[rollie 55]

Railway conductors must absolutely hate this stop.

I think so

 

[Phaidrus]

don't want to fan the flames really

 

[HolmeBass]

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This photo is of me when i was 16 the sign i am sitting under is the name of the village on the isle of Anglesey north wales my family are from Bangor not to far from there

My very clever friend, Mike Clem, wrote a country song about that town. He plays with Eddie From Ohio, but this was on one of his solo releases.

 

[themickster]

When riding the Underground, at each stop it is announced “Mind the gap!” Now, if they would do this American a favor, could they add “Look right before crossing the street!” would be a good thing.

It's not every station, only those with a curved platform. We do have some crossings marked with which way to look.

 

[themickster]

I never did understand why some people don't pronounce the h in herbs.

Londoners don't say the h in anything

 

[byacey]

It's not every station, only those with a curved platform. We do have some crossings marked with which way to look.

Do they expel the passengers in the middle of the street?

 

[themickster]

Do they expel the passengers in the middle of the street?

Um. No. How did you work that out? I was answering two different points.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

It's not every station, only those with a curved platform. We do have some crossings marked with which way to look.

Good to know. But as posted prior, I was advised to look both ways regardless. Sounds like a pretty good idea. Thanks for your post.

 

[Guitalia]

One of my reading/research interests is British WWI poets, many of whom lived adjacent Wales, in the Cotswolds/Malvern area. Edward Thomas wrote a travelogue titled Wild Wales, which sent me back to a book of the same title written by George Borrow a half century earlier (Borrow's book in its entirety is available on Google Books). Thomas's is more a naturalist's book, with detailed descriptions of flora and fauna. Borrow's book has some of that but is mostly people and places, which means names, and the names just destroy me. It would not surprise me that in the Welsh version of Scrabble each player gets thirty alphabet tiles instead of the seven the rest of us must make do with.

In some editions of Under Milk Wood, the name of the village, called "Llareggub" in Dylan Thomas's original version, is censored as "Llaregyb," for fear of shocking any delicate flower who happened to read "Llareggub" backwards.

 

[rollie 55]

My very clever friend, Mike Clem, wrote a country song about that town. He plays with Eddie From Ohio, but this was on one of his solo releases.

Excellent love it

 

[byacey]

My wife immigrated here from Ukraine, when she was 15 years old. While in Ukraine, they taught her in English class not to pronounce the "R" sound in speech; this is presumably because the instructor was schooled in the way the British speak.

While attending Catholic high school in Edmonton, she bought lunch in the cafeteria one day, but the servers neglected to include a fork on her tray with the other utensils. When she pointed this out to her friends she exclaimed, "I need a fohk". A nearby teacher overheard this, came over and admonished her for using inappropriate language, and further explained that in this country, such things are discussed privately.

 

[Phaidrus]

My wife immigrated here from Ukraine, when she was 15 years old. While in Ukraine, they taught her in English class not to pronounce the "R" sound in speech; this is presumably because the instructor was schooled in the way the British speak.

While attending Catholic high school in Edmonton, she bought lunch in the cafeteria one day, but the servers neglected to include a fork on her tray with the other utensils. When she pointed this out to her friends she exclaimed, "I need a fohk". A nearby teacher overheard this, came over and admonished her for using inappropriate language, and further explained that in this country, such things are discussed privately.

Oh, dear... "Fork you" sounds pretty funky though!

 

[themickster]

Good to know. But as posted prior, I was advised to look both ways regardless. Sounds like a pretty good idea. Thanks for your post.

We were taught at primary school to look both ways whenever crossing.

I start a thread joking about amplifier bits, and it becomes a series one about road safety.

 

[Lowendtech]

Tone bottles.
I dinna knew wha’ yer on aboot.

 

[themickster]

My wife immigrated here from Ukraine, when she was 15 years old. While in Ukraine, they taught her in English class not to pronounce the "R" sound in speech; this is presumably because the instructor was schooled in the way the British speak.

Southwestern English has rolled R, much like North America. Scots trill R like some Europeans. We have more accents in a few hundred miles than you would think. You can drive for an hour, and the accent has changed a lot.

 

[byacey]

My wife immigrated here from Ukraine, when she was 15 years old. While in Ukraine, they taught her in English class not to pronounce the "R" sound in speech; this is presumably because the instructor was schooled in the way the British speak.

While attending Catholic high school in Edmonton, she bought lunch in the cafeteria one day, but the servers neglected to include a fork on her tray with the other utensils. When she pointed this out to her friends she exclaimed, "I need a fohk". A nearby teacher overheard this, came over and admonished her for using inappropriate language, and further explained that in this country, such things are discussed privately.

If I recall correctly, the teacher that overheard her was the father on the actor, Nathan Fillion.

 

[themickster]

Tone bottles.
I dinna knew wha’ yer on aboot.

Dinna fash yourself and lang may you're lum reek! We'll have a craic later.

 

[byacey]

Southwestern English has rolled R, much like North America. Scots trill R like some Europeans. We have more accents in a few hundred miles than you would think. You can drive for an hour, and the accent has changed a lot.

I think in the case of this English teacher in Ukraine, it was a case of the blind leading the blind.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

The only jamming I need to do is down the pub with my musical friends.

And I like blackcurrant.