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Old Jul 25th 2009, 1:43 am
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Originally Posted by scottishcelts
Excuse me - i'm far too posh to sound like you. I can't understand you half the time when you start speaking in that .... slang tongue of yours.
Deep river and posh cannot ever again be spoken in the same sentence.
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Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
Accents may be similar, but diction and style varies, so I suppose I've never really connected a voice to a location. Pre-conceived ideas: think this would apply to just about everyone - such is the nature of the internet. You can't pigeon-hole individuals but certainly groups and 'scenes' emerge...

..or am I thinking too honestly and orginally again, and will cop it for saying this
Depends if MP decides to post on here I guess!
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Deep river and posh cannot ever again be spoken in the same sentence.
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Originally Posted by sallyclaire
Depends if MP decides to post on here I guess!
My frail and delicate ego..
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Originally Posted by sallyclaire
Hmmm!
I have met. Soapy, Bix and sasbear (plus some others who dont post so much) and I suppose they all werent what I was expecting, especially Bix LOL. But I tried not to have preconceived ideas, I expect I wasnt what they were expecting either, and after losing 4.5 stone I prob look different again.

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I'm from West Yorkshire and have a strong Yorkshire accent yet Aussies ask if I'm irish, scottish and the kids in my boys class think I sound like Jamie Oliver, pukka !!!!
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Originally Posted by humpy
I'm from West Yorkshire and have a strong Yorkshire accent yet Aussies ask if I'm irish, scottish and the kids in my boys class think I sound like Jamie Oliver, pukka !!!!
My accents Glaswegian. (not the crappy one on the telly) but I wear a lot of Celtic tops whos badge is a shamrock. They know my accent but the badge throws them.
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Originally Posted by framac67
My accents Glaswegian. (not the crappy one on the telly) but I wear a lot of Celtic tops whos badge is a shamrock. They know my accent but the badge throws them.
Nuhin like a man in a sellic tap

Ma man wears nuhin else!

Unless he goes ootside, obviously he'll stick oan a pair o troosers
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Originally Posted by Bernieboy
Met the soapster and he does indeed talk utter pish,but a good lad all the same
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Originally Posted by scottishcelts
Nuhin like a man in a sellic tap

Ma man wears nuhin else!

Unless he goes ootside, obviously he'll stick oan a pair o troosers
I was reading that & thinking, why would you wear sellotape!
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Originally Posted by sallyclaire
I was reading that & thinking, why would you wear sellotape!
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Originally Posted by scottishcelts
do you sound like Rab C Nesbitt?
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Originally Posted by Broad Shoulders
do you sound like Rab C Nesbitt?
No - i told you, i'm more the ...sophisticated type
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Originally Posted by scottishcelts
No - i told you, i'm more the ...sophisticated type
Gregor Fisher out of character then?
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