Speaking clock
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Speaking clock
My kids asked me for the time this morning ( I was in a beautiful slumber!) and my watch loses a lot of time these days.
Does 'Straya have a speaking clock?
Beep...beep....BEEP!!!
(That should keep us happy for a while. I'm rather hoping Australia doesn't so that we can pour scorn and vitriol.)
Does 'Straya have a speaking clock?
Beep...beep....BEEP!!!
(That should keep us happy for a while. I'm rather hoping Australia doesn't so that we can pour scorn and vitriol.)
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Re: Speaking clock
The one in the Uk was quite incredible. Always right. My parents used it a lot.
They changed the voice a few years back or summat'.
They changed the voice a few years back or summat'.
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Re: Speaking clock
My kids asked me for the time this morning ( I was in a beautiful slumber!) and my watch loses a lot of time these days.
Does 'Straya have a speaking clock?
Beep...beep....BEEP!!!
(That should keep us happy for a while. I'm rather hoping Australia doesn't so that we can pour scorn and vitriol.)
Does 'Straya have a speaking clock?
Beep...beep....BEEP!!!
(That should keep us happy for a while. I'm rather hoping Australia doesn't so that we can pour scorn and vitriol.)
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Re: Speaking clock
I wonder if Aus has a shipping forecast. When I catch that on the beeb for some stupid reason I listen to it. I find it weirdly compelling.
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Re: Speaking clock
According to Wikipedia Australia does have one. I dialled it from Brisbane and it said "The time is 1972"
I knew there was a riposte somewhere....we have a winner!
And yes, there is one, as it turns out. Here in Melbourne, the time is indeed 2012....
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The Speaking Clock bloke I heard just now sounded suspiciously British. He did have Melbourne time right though...
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Re: Speaking clock
I'm sorry I just caused you to shell out the coin for the phone...oh - and it doesn't surprise me - I meet loads of Australians who could pass for Brits...based on their accents.
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Whats the betting if I phoned the speaking clock from herE in WA it'd give me the time on the East Coast????
#12
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its here online.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfvv
Sadly those deep and slow BBC RP pronunciations seem to have gone.
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That is so British. As a kid I would listen in wonder at gale warnings.
its here online.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfvv
Sadly those deep and slow BBC RP pronunciations seem to have gone.
its here online.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfvv
Sadly those deep and slow BBC RP pronunciations seem to have gone.
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Re: Speaking clock
There will be a fullmoon in liverpool tonight... Mrs Jones handkerchiefs wre white, but now they are blue, looking for the son of Mr X your father is dangerously ill....
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Re: Speaking clock
I remember a few from when I was a kid in the 70s; when I was in bed ill I would listen to the World Service a lot overnight, you used to hear announcements on there for stuff like "John, somewhere in India, please call home urgently".