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Post by somersetstokie on Jun 11, 2020 17:22:17 GMT
Sorry Boother, "amusing thread", or entertaining?
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Jun 11, 2020 17:27:02 GMT
This is quite an amusing thread. How many other English graduates are on here? I'm trying to think of the word for what you did there... you're the English graduate, you probably know? I think it's circumlocution?
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Post by murphthesurf on Jun 11, 2020 17:39:37 GMT
This is quite an amusing thread. How many other English graduates are on here? I'm trying to think of the word for what you did there... you're the English graduate, you probably know? I think it's circumlocution? Electrocution......
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jun 11, 2020 22:10:10 GMT
And then - aaaaggghhh - when someone is spelling a word with 'h' in it out loud to someone else and they say: ' haitch'. No it isn't, you 'orrible hoaf! It's AITCH! These things are never easy when so many people say them wrongly. I learnt (learned?) how to pronounce H properly by remembering how NHS is said. People used to scoff at attempts to introduce new languages, such as Esperanto. But just look at what we are coping with now. A new form of urban English that seems to be a cross between gangster slang and text speak. Also 'Estuary English'. Another thing to cause huge annoyance. "I fink......." seems to be the automatic pronunciation for most professional footballers who seemingly just can't cope with a 'th' sound when they're being interviewed on TV. I suppose it's always been part of, for example, a Cockney accent, which is fine, but these days youngsters from all over the place seem to have picked the habit up and I'm sure a lot do it to copy their football heroes. I just want to smack them in the mouth and tell them to say it properly. I didn't say these 'th' words properly until my early 20s, when someone pointed out to me I didn't. It was an easy fix, and I'm glad they pointed it out! This one's a Potteries thing, but I didn't realise I say "buzz" instead of "buss" as in the mode of transport until my mid-20s either, when a Scouser pointed it out to me in Krakow. He thought I was after drugs and it suddenly made sense why foreign people never understood me even when I used the local translation, as I'd be saying something like "autobuzz" instead of "autobus." And on the Stoke thing, a colleague from Cheshire pointed out I say "I aren't" and that it doesn't make sense. It doesn't really, but a lot of us North Staffordshire people say it. Dialect makes the world more interesting, if not more difficult at times.
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Post by somersetstokie on Jun 11, 2020 23:21:09 GMT
The Potteries or North Staffordshire dialect is said by scholars to be certainly based on, and probably the nearest to Old Middle English, of any form of speech used across the country.
Which I find to be very interesting.
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Post by Orbs on Jun 12, 2020 14:08:16 GMT
I've thought of a couple more - 'medal' and 'debut' For example:
'Do you think you will medal at the Cellarhead dogging championships this year Felonious?'
'Not sure Orbs, but I performed really well on debut.'
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Jun 12, 2020 14:12:22 GMT
Anyone got any footballer cliches? I’ll start. “We go again” A really popular one this year😐
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Post by butlerstbob on Jun 12, 2020 14:17:00 GMT
This is quite an amusing thread. How many other English graduates are on here? I iz one! graduated yonks ago man!
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Post by marylandstoke on Jun 12, 2020 14:29:23 GMT
Anyone got any footballer cliches? I’ll start. “We go again” A really popular one this year😐 Got to admit, been using that one me-sen recently.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Jun 12, 2020 14:35:17 GMT
Anyone got any footballer cliches? I’ll start. “We go again” A really popular one this year😐 Got to admit, been using that one me-sen recently. 🤣 The transfer rumour mill is a good one. “Manchester United are closely monitoring“. Usually a player they don’t have a hope of signing. “Liverpool are keeping tabs on”. Usually some young European protege. “Manchester City are locked in a tug of war”. Usually with Real Madrid for the current flavour of the month. The lists goes on!
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Post by somersetstokie on Jun 12, 2020 14:39:44 GMT
This is quite an amusing thread. How many other English graduates are on here? I iz one! graduated yonks ago man! I am English, and a graduate. Does that count?
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Post by somersetstokie on Jun 12, 2020 14:43:46 GMT
Got to admit, been using that one me-sen recently. 🤣 The transfer rumour mill is a good one. “Manchester United are closely monitoring“. Usually a player they don’t have a hope of signing. “Liverpool are keeping tabs on”. Usually some young European protege. “Manchester City are locked in a tug of war”. Usually with Real Madrid for the current flavour of the month. The lists goes on! And of course "Derby swoop to end Tom Ince's Stoke City Hell". Substitute club and player as appropriate, and possibly include the words "nightmare" and "misery".
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jun 12, 2020 14:52:24 GMT
The Potteries or North Staffordshire dialect is said by scholars to be certainly based on, and probably the nearest to Old Middle English, of any form of speech used across the country. Which I find to be very interesting. When my dads job changed we left Cellarhead and moved to Bedfordshire. I was a mere 7 years old. There was only one minor problem, no one could understand a word myself or my brother were saying. I can only assume even at that age we must have had pretty broad accents.
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Post by mrcoke on Jun 12, 2020 16:39:58 GMT
The Potteries or North Staffordshire dialect is said by scholars to be certainly based on, and probably the nearest to Old Middle English, of any form of speech used across the country. Which I find to be very interesting. When my dads job changed we left Cellarhead and moved to Bedfordshire. I was a mere 7 years old. There was only one minor problem, no one could understand a word myself or my brother were saying. I can only assume even at that age we must have had pretty broad accents. As a child we used to go to the Isle of Wight for holidays. I remember one day a local boy asked my sister "Are you Irish?".
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Post by felonious on Jun 12, 2020 17:16:44 GMT
I've thought of a couple more - 'medal' and 'debut' For example: 'Do you think you will medal at the Cellarhead dogging championships this year Felonious?' 'Not sure Orbs, but I performed really well on debut.' Much better effort, A+
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Post by marylandstoke on Jun 12, 2020 17:40:44 GMT
I iz one! graduated yonks ago man! I am English, and a graduate. Does that count. I am English and have used some lines from The Graduate. Does that count? And (which, of course you should never start a sentence with) should that not be a ? Not a . there Somersty?
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Post by marylandstoke on Jun 12, 2020 17:47:09 GMT
Thank you people. An Oatcake first for me, I actually cried laughing this afternoon from this thread.
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Post by murphthesurf on Jun 16, 2020 14:26:50 GMT
Anyone got any footballer cliches?I’ll start. “We go again” A really popular one this year😐 Not so much a cliche, Badge, but certainly a favourite & regular SCFC quote courtesy of our Nige: "He got his antles tapped just outside the centre sirtle"!
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Post by somersetstokie on Jun 16, 2020 18:26:58 GMT
"It's a Season of two halves!"
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Jun 16, 2020 18:45:49 GMT
Anyone got any footballer cliches?I’ll start. “We go again” A really popular one this year😐 Not so much a cliche, Badge, but certainly a favourite & regular SCFC quote courtesy of our Nige: "He got his antles tapped just outside the centre sirtle"! Not listened to Nige for about 20 years but two things stood out at the time: When a corner came over “Heads go up”. Before kick off “ The potters wearing red and white stripe shirts, white shorts and white stockings. Attacking the goal to our right/left”. Is he still going?
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